MAIN HIGHWAYS
BOARD TO VISIT GISBORNE NEXT MOINTH.
TOUR OF POVERTY BAY AND EAST COAST.
The Main Highways Board intends making a tour of the East Coast districts from November 23 to December 4, according to advice received by the Gisborne branch of the A.A.A. yesterday from the District Engineer of the P.W.D., Mr G. W. Albertson. The board members will roach the boundary of the Gisborne district on Friday, Novemer 30, and will travel from Opotiki to Gisborne that day. . , On the following clay the board will go as far ,as Ruatoria, returning, to Gisborne in the evening. On Sunday, December 2, the board will probably go to Wailcaremoanu: and stay at \Vairoa in the evening. The Gisborne branch of the A.A.A. was, therefore, risked to draft a suitable time table assuming that the Board would leave Opotiki on the morning of November 30 at 8.30 o’clock. Apart from this da v it was presumed that the same timetable as on the occasion of the last .visit could be followed and could be adopted lor Saturday,. Decernber 1. The Association was asked to notify county councils and local am thorities in the district also the Automobile Association in each centre visited, indicating that the board would receive deputations on any matters.
' The necessity of impressing upon the board that it was imperative that the bottom coarse metalling of the Gisborne-Motu road should be completed by the end of this summer was stressed by Mr Geo. Crawshaw, who said that at the present rate it did not seem that the work would be completed by the end of the season. Owing to the impassable state of the road in winter and in wet weather in summer hundreds were deterred from visiting Gisborne. It was the only break in the highways between Auckland and Wellington and it was essential that the metalling should be completed by the end of the summer to make an all weather, road. It was most unfair .that motorists should ho compelled to rail their cars past the had section ot the road at this time of the year. These views were echoed bv othei members of the. Association and it was unanimously decided to represent to the Highways Board the vital need forrvfinishing the, metalling this year. - ‘ - ■ "• ■" ‘ ,
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Gisborne Times, 31 October 1928, Page 7
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