BULLS-TURAKINA ROAD

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXIV, Issue 96, 6 April 1934, Page 15

BULLS-TURAKINA ROAD

Reopvned for Traffic Visiting motorists in Napier will be interested to learn that the Bulls-Tura-kina road, which is portion of the Wanganui-Palmerston North main highway, is now open to traffic again, after having been blocked for a week. The service officer to the Hawke's Bay Automobile Association, Mr F. Stace, made reference to this road yesterday afternoon. “Thanks to the fine weather,” he stated, “a one-way track was opened for traffic on Easter Saturday. After consultation with the Rangitikei County Council, it was decided that the ‘road blocked’ signs should be left up on tho south side during the heavy traffic period over Easter in an endeavour to divert some of the traffic so that ths men would be able to carry on with the lowering of the road on the Dalvey Hill and to hasten the metalling. Those signs have now been removed. “The road at the top of the hill has to be lowered 30 inches in places, and heavy rain developing caused an impassable quagmire over about five chains of road. The contractor has experienced some trouble through machinery breakages, bnt good progress is now being made now that the weather is fine. If the weather remains fine until the week-end, the metalling nnd reconstruction should lie completed.”