“JUST A QUAGMIRE”
MAIN WEST COAST ROAD IN BAD CONDITION “The main road from the foot of Johnsonville hill to Pareinata is just, a quagmire,” said the clerk of the Makara County Council to a Dominion reporter yesterday. “This serious position,” he went on to say, is due entirely to the heavy motor vehicle traffic, necessitated by the railway strike, between Wellington ami the West Coast district. The County Council has already ordered metal tor the reinetalling of the road, but this supply has been held up at Paekakariki. In order to improve the condition of the road the council has also rushed all the available men (numbering 13) on to the road, and has commissioned several lorries and tractors. Arrangements have been made with a local quarry for supplies of metal, but as the total length of road involved is 13 miles there will bo no immediate iiniirovcment for some days to come.”
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Dominion, Volume 18, Issue 183, 29 April 1924, Page 6
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