SOUNDS’ ROAD

Grey River Argus, 17 June 1933, Page 7

SOUNDS’ ROAD

DIFFICULTIES TO BE OVERCOME. INVERCARGILL. June 16. “It is glorious’’ was the coniine ui of Mr Leslie Murrell of Manapouri, who knows the Sounds intimately. Ox> the road round rhe Sounds as suggested by Mr J?. A. Anderson to the Southland League. As he visualized the scheme, one quarter of the road would have to be hewn out of solid rock. He did not think any engineer would seriously survey it. It was inconceivable to him that anyone who knew the character of the country, and the floods that swept down the

vnlloys, transforming them into hikes could propose such a road. The road suggested by Mr Anderson would give complete circle of the South Island, and if carried up some 500 to 700 ft., above sea level, would provide 'uno of the finest roadways in the world.

In his letter to the League, Mr Anderson stated that the road would provide a large number of men with work for a good many years, and it the Unemployment Board would sub" sidisc so much, and the Government, and Alain Highways Board, each make a subsidy, then the men could be

employed full time. It was estimated hy the President of the League that the road would be 259 miles long, but Mr Murrell contends that if a level of 500 to 700 ft. were it be one thousand miles in length. He ‘ could see as much as £lOO,OOO a mila ‘ being spent on some parts of it.