"VICTORY HIGHWAY."

New Zealand Herald, Volume LVII, Issue 17631, 18 November 1920, Page 8

"VICTORY HIGHWAY."

PROPOSED WAR MEMORIAL.

ROAD THROUGH DOMINION.

"AN ABSOLUTE NECESSITY."

The proposal to commemorate victory in the great war by forming a national highway through the Dominion is only slowlv assuming shape. The general idea is to make a concrete road, at least 12ft. wide, from Auckland to Bluff, at an estimated cost of £6,000,000. Approval of! the project has been expressed" by the council of the - New Zealand Motor Garage Proprietors' Association at a meeting in Christchurch. Only casual discussion of the matter has so far taken place in Auckland.

Mr. G. W. Hutchison, secretary to the Good Roads Association of New "Zealand and the Auckland Automobile Association, stated yesterday that draft legislation dealing with the main roads of the Dominion had already been prepared by the Government, and it was expected that proposals would be circulated during the recess so that next session legislation might be passed transferring the control of the main trunk road to a national board. Apart altogether from tha question of a memorial motorists regarded the sugRested road as an absolute necessity. While some people considered that memorials should not be utilitarian there was much in the proposal to commend it particularly a a each town on the route would have the opportunity of erecting on the side of the memorial road its separate memorial for the fallen s-oldiere of its own district.