WEST COAST ROADS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20820, 12 March 1931, Page 12

WEST COAST ROADS.

ACCESS TO BEAUTY SPOTS.

IMPROVEMENT SCHEMES.

A suggestion that the three gaps in the ridgeway drive along the Waitakere Ranges from Titirangi to the SwansonWest Coast Road should be eliminated by road formation under an unemployment scheme was endorsed at a meeting of the Auckland Automobile Association Council last evening. Writing on behalf of the Waitakere Ranges Association, Mr. G. M. Fowlds said there could not be more than four or five miles of formation work necessary and it would make perhaps the finest drive adjacent to any of tho Dominion's cities.

Another work suggested was the completion of the motalling, or at least the formation, of tho short section on the road leading off tho Swanson-West Coast Road into the City Council's cascade kauri forest. As the forest had been acquired at a cost of £27,000 as a national domain, it was incumbent on local bodies to make it available for the pleasure of the people of this generation, the letter stated. Finally, as the Piha Beach, with its splendid tree-ringed shore, had tho most room for possible development as the finest surfing beach nearest Auckland, consideration of the suggestion to construct a new road from McElwain's Road down the head of the Piha Valley was sought.

4 It was decided to bring the matters before the City Council and tho Waitemata County Council.