ACCESS TO WAIKAREMOANA
WORK PROCEEDING STEADILY RUATAHUNA-LAKE SECTION* The New Zealand Tourist League has for some time been urging the Government to complete the road from Ruatahuna to Lake Waikaremoana. The beautiful lake charms all visitors, but relatively few Aucklanders are able to make the long trip via Napier or Gisborne to Wairoa and thence to the lake. The overland route from Rotorua, when completed, will take the traveller right past the last tract of native country, the Tuhoe country or Urewera, and over historic ground to the lake.
In reply to the league's request for information regarding the work, the Minister of Public Works states:—"l have to advise that the Waimana-Waikare-moana Road, officially known as the Waimana Valley Road, has been surveyed from the Bay of Plenty roading system at Waimana, which is on the road from Whakatane to Opotiki, to the Wairoa system on the south side of the lake, a distance of 66 miles. The road has been formed to dray width for about 16 miles from Waimana and to 6ft. for a farther seven miles. This road is not being formed as an access route from Auckland to Waikaremoana and it is not intended to do extensions in the near future.
"The proposed access from Auckland province to Lake Waikaremoana is through Rotorua and Ruatahuna, the distance from Ruatahuna to Whanganui Inlet on Lake Waikaremoana being 20 miles. Work is proceeding steadily on this road and it has been widened to full dray width for six miles from Ruatahuna toward the lake. There are at present 17 men employed and it is proposed to push steadily on with the work." There is another route into the Tuhoe from the Bay of Plenty roading system, from Whakatane, via the' Whakatane River \ alley. The road now runs to Ruatoki, once the edge of the confiscated land. The Minister states that 30 relief workers are employed on extending this route to the south where it will eventual junction with the Rotorua-Ruatahuna Road. At present only a very rough track exists. " ' D
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19697, 25 July 1927, Page 10
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