TAITA GORGE ROAD
Work Nearly Completed Within a week the work of strengthening the road in the Taita Gorge at the place where the scour occurred during the flood on April 4 last will be completed. Already the road is able to be used for its full width. Also it is much the strongest part for the whole of the route through the gorge. From across the river the face for 250 yards has the appearance of a strong stone fortress. Hundreds and thousands of big boulders Lave been placed in position and so strongly netted and tightly laced are they that it is certain no flood will be able to displace them. It seems that there is a length extending past the southern end of the work that ought also to be strengthened in the same way, but it is ‘stated there are no funds available." Already men have been put off from the main job, principally, however, because there is not now the need for them.
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Dominion, Volume 24, Issue 287, 31 August 1931, Page 2
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168TAITA GORGE ROAD Dominion, Volume 24, Issue 287, 31 August 1931, Page 2
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