EXITS FROM THE CITY

Evening Post, Volume CXXXI, Issue 41, 18 February 1941, Page 6

EXITS FROM THE CITY

(To the Editor.)

Sir, —The unfortunate wash-out andclosing of the Ngahauranga Gorge Road serves once more to emphasise the vital 'importance of all alternative exits from Wellington, and the urgent necessity of. keeping them in good repair. There is one alternative exit which has not received the attention it merits. This is the Old Porirua Road, leading off the Ngaio Gorge Road at the Atlantic petrol installation, and meeting Cockayne Road at Ngaio. Although it provides a valuable extra route from and to the city, this road is allowed to remain poorlygraded and ill-surfaced. It is the original coach road out of Wellington, and ante-dates all other exits. It shares with the Ngaio Gprge Road (off which it branches at the foot) the considerable advantage of being the exit closest to Wellington. The Ngaio Gorge Road is not a class 1 highway, and not .capable of carrying alone an emergency volume of traffic. To have the Old Porirua Road in good condition —regraded. widened, and sealed—would virtually open a new outlet, and relieve pressure .on the Ngaio Gorge Road. —I am. etc.-

FORESIGHT.

"Worker" suggests that as increased production is ne.eded and a compulsory loan has been- introduced, the present 40-hour week be increased to 44, the extra four hours' pay at ordinary rate to go direct to the Government as a compulsory loan, and to be held in trust for the individual for the duration of the war. "By this means taxation will be eased and production increased, with, I think, the minimum amount of dissatisfaction."