ROAD TO COLVILLE.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19511, 15 December 1926, Page 16

ROAD TO COLVILLE.

TWO OARS MAKE TRIP. PROGRESS OF CONSTRUCTION. [by telegraph.— own correspondent.] . COROMANDEL, Tuesday. A further step in the linking-up of the settled portions of the Coromandel Peninsula was achieved on Saturday, when Mr. Meredith, postmaster and storekeeper, of Colville, with Mr. W. Richardson, of Auckland, as his driver, took a new car through from Auckland to Colville without any trouble. Soon after their arival there Mr. Herman Denize, mail contractor, Coromandel, appeared with the mails and two passengers in 3iis seven-seater car, which had also safely negotiated the road. Ifc was certainly a red-letter day for the people of Colville, as, since the arrival of the first settlers there 50 or 60 years ago, vehicular communication with the outside districts has v been impossible owing to the absence of a road. The section of the road being constructed by the Public Works Department, from Amodeo Eay to Colville, about six miles in length, is well advanced. A short piece of temporary deviation at the head of the valley leading out of Colville, called the "Devil's Elbow," had to be made, and by the courtesy of Mr. O'Brien, the public works overseer in the district, the cars were permitted to traverse the unfinished section to prove what could -be done. The next length, from Colville to Port Charles on the east coast of the peninsula, about 12 miles, is, it is hoped, to be taken in hand at an early date.