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Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 304, 17 September 1921, Page 7

A. conference of delegates from diam .hers of commerce and other local bodies between Auckland and Wellington mci at Taumarunui on Thursday. The follow' inc motion was passed, unanimously: "That this conference reaffirms the pnn ciple’of a similar conference of six ago. that a national highway betweer Auckland and Wellington be built bj the Government. And that tho co--t O' construction bo borne by the Gov®™ ment and local bodies in equal dharM io be settled by commission; that a w be imposed on motorists for the'upkc«l of this and other roads, and that the HS’ tional highway follow rough y. the W* sent Main Trunk railway line- . ™ proposal in Iho Ministers Bill « divert tho main arterial road from 1' Kuili to Waitara through New Fiy mouth to Marton, and this was rtrerm onslv opposed. The conference decide* unanimously that tho Public Works be urged to have that por fion of the notional highway between □< Kuili and Marten included as a nia-iT arterial road, and that immediate etepi be taken to link up tho' north and south It was also agreed that a deputation cl (representatives of all local Ixidiea anc institutions interested wait on tho Minister about October 15 to place, the matter beforq. him.