MAIN ROUTE TO NORTH.
QUESTION STILL UNSETTLED. CLAIM OF THE EAST COAST. [BY TELEGRAPH. —OWN CORRESPONDENT.] WHANGAREI, ednesday. It was stated at a meeting of No. 1 District Council of the Main Highways Board yesterday, when reference was made to the advisability of declaring the Waiwera to Mangawai Road, via Puhoi and Warkworth, a Government road, that previously a request had been made that the proposed main road be surveyed. The council agreed that whichever route was taken the road ,would have to be a main highway. The chairman, Mr. J. Mclnnis, said the Highways Board had not made up its mind which routo would bo accepted as the main one. Personally he favoured the present East Coast route. In view of there being no further evidence beyond what had been in hand previously Mr. W. Jones, M.P., moved that the matter bo left in abeyance. He said he would bo sorry to see the rosid shifted from tho East Coast route. The motion was carried.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19320, 6 May 1926, Page 8
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