A MOTORIST’S IMPRESSIONS.
IMPROVEMENT IN KING COUNTRY ROADS NOT SO BAD. “It is ten years since I was through this part of the world, and 1 notice a wonderful change in the country,” said a Taranaki farmer, who wgs staying in Te Kuiti yesterday on his way home, after a motor ttiur through ti e Auckland province. “I see a big improvement in the appearance of the land, too, bul there seem to he very few sheep about compared with Taranaki.”
The reporter asked how he had found the local roads. “Well, they are bumpy certainly, but you find the same sort of thing all over the province. You strike potholes as soon as you are a few miles from Auckland, and it is the same on the New Plymouth Road until you strike the tar, within 30 miles of New Plymouth. That tar does make a difference, you can drive for miles and miles in Taranaki without striking a stone. They talk about the Rangiriris a lot, but the hills are nothing, and it is only in wet weather that the surface is bad. It was quite good—better than a lot of the metal —when we came through.”
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King Country Chronicle, Volume XX, Issue 2064, 8 January 1925, Page 5
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199A MOTORIST’S IMPRESSIONS. King Country Chronicle, Volume XX, Issue 2064, 8 January 1925, Page 5
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