Haast-Paringa Road
Sir, —The “five or six miles’’ of road "largely completed,” north of Haast crosses an area which has at one time, been settled and which even had a stretch of overgrown road when I travelled it and was quite suitable for a utility vehicle. It is where the stock route strikes inland and climbs up almost to the upper bush line and crosses dozens of watercourses, hanging “by its eyebrow’s” to the sodden hillsides before dropping back to join the new road at the trampers’ hut just south of Paringa that it becomes impassable for vehicles. If Mr Gush is still unconvinced I suggest that he makes use of the Easter holidays to take a pair of boots to South Westland and walk through. That will convince him of the complete impracticability of using this part of the stock route.—Yours, etc..
P. C. HUGHES February 10. 1962
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Press, Volume CI, Issue 29746, 13 February 1962, Page 3
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