ROADS FOR THE NORTH.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 13983, 12 February 1909, Page 6

ROADS FOR THE NORTH.

Roap construction has been carried on this summer by the Government at a good pace (eay6 the New Zealand Times). There were 4839 men employed by the Roads Department on a recent date, and this high average will probably be kept up until the bad weather comes, as there is no general demand for labour in other spheres euf ticient to reduce the Road Department's available supply. The widening of tracks into dray roads has been the Department's main policy during the year, and a very large amount of this useful work line been done in the back blocks country lying between Wellington and the Waikato. Roads which will be useful feeders to the Main Trunk line have been constructed, and the back country between Motu and the Bay of Plenty has also received special attention. Steadily the arterial roads of the North Island art* being joined up There is now a good driving road almost from Stratford to Ongarue, in the King Country. The incomplete gap measures 12 miles, and can be ridden over, but the work is in hand, and ought to lie pushed 011 so at; to complete so important a route of communication with the interior Along the North Island Main Trunk railway excellent service roads were made by the Public Works Department, and nearly all of them will come in useful for settler- -md *? ur £ tH, J They are being maintained'by the Koads Department at present. Thanks to the Public Works Department, there is a fairly good raid in existence from Taumaxumii to Uhakuno.