MAIN TRUNK DISTRICT.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 25 May 1926, Page 5

MAIN TRUNK DISTRICT.

IMPORTANT ROAD OPENED. (by TELEGRAPH —PRESS ASSOCIATION.) TAU ALAR UN UT, Alay 24. At Kauri mu this; afternoon, the Prime Minister officiated at the opening of the Spiral Road. The completion of this road marks one of the most important accomplishments in loading in tlie centre of the North Island. After years of agitation by the Ivaitieke County Council, backed up by other local bodies, the- road has at last been completed by prison labour, with the result that a through road south of Taumarunui is now an accomplished fact. During the railway strike Taumarunui was almost isolated, but the completion of the road over the spiral removes this possibility, should a railway strike ever occur again. Aloreover, the road gives access from the north to tlie important and fast developing National Park, which in a. very short time must become the Atecca of hundreds of motorists. > Those present at the ceremony today included tlie Hon. A. D. AlcLeod, Alinister of Lands, Air. R'.. W. Smith, ALP., Air AY Crocker, chairman of the Kaitieke County Council, and Air. P. Keller, the Public AA’brks engineer. Air. Coates said that the more or less isolated districts deserved notice. The road had been completed under difficulties, and was a. big undertaking. The Highways Act would prove to be a success, and it was quite likely work would be set going on another section oE tlie road on the other side of Taumarunui. Airs. Crocker then cut the tape, and Air Coates declared the road open. The Ministerial party left Raurimu at five o’clock lor Taumarunui, where they will be entertained at- dinner tonight by the Taumarunui County Council.