OLD PORIRUA ROAD
(To the Editor.)
Sir,—There are many old settlers and their descendants who will agree with your correspondent Mary. Webb in her objection to changing the name of the Old Porirua Road. The ■ old road has- memories and associations for the old residents of Wellington, and to pioneer settlers it was Wellington's Appian Way and led to the then military front and the' outposts of settlement. The children and grandchildren of the old settlers have memories of stories of events in connection with this old road, of long, weary tramps in and out of town carrying goods and supplies. New Zealand —a new, country—has few pakeha literary, romantic, or historical associations with her beautiful landscapes. Let us keep what we have and not reduce this historical old road to the status of a commonplace' suburban avenue.—lJ am, etc., , • HY. B. FRANCE. Plimmerton, October 6.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXII, Issue 89, 11 October 1941, Page 8
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