Unsung Heroes
If there is one group of men whose praises have been unsung in the celebration of New Zealand’s centennial, those men are the surveyors who plotted the Dominion’s roads and railways. The surveyor states that mistakes have been made, but asks what can the motor-borne critic, roaring across four counties in as many halihours. surmounting two or three ranges, and crossing rivers and gorges with the same easy certainty, know of the toil the sweat, the mould.' biscuits and skinny pork, the chop •ping and swagging. the weary climb: and the cold wet traverses in th' winter gullies, that made up the loinarduous travail leading to his modern road. What indeed! The North limnc Main Trunk railway through thf centre of the wild bush country u nowhere more than an easy wnl < from the line selected long ago by Jamfcs Rochfort!
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20242, 9 May 1940, Page 8
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143Unsung Heroes Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20242, 9 May 1940, Page 8
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