New Highway Mars Rotoiti Scenery
ROTORUA, Thu. (Sp.) Residents and owners of Lake Rotoiti properties are watching with much displeasure the threat to the beauty of the shoreline by the construction of the new Rotorua-Whakatane highway. Residents are only too well aware of the inadequacy of the existing narrow, winding road with its many “collision bends” and dangerous “corkscrews,” but as the new 50-mile-an-hour “speedway” converges on their own section of the lake they are wondering whether the price of progress is worth it after all.
Although the construction is watched with regret they l’ealise that such a road must be built. Between Lakes Rotoiti and Rotoehu the new road must run through the Hongi’s Track reserve. Elsewhere the Works Department has been almost powerless to prevent scenery destruction, but at Hongi’s Track it has gone out of its way to ensure that the new highway will not interfere with the preservation of one of New Zealand’s greatest heritages.
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Northern Advocate, 8 January 1948, Page 2
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159New Highway Mars Rotoiti Scenery Northern Advocate, 8 January 1948, Page 2
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