ROAD THROUGH SOUNDS

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXX, Issue 21520, 17 June 1933, Page 10

ROAD THROUGH SOUNDS

CRITICISM OF PROPOSAL ENGINEERING IMPOSSIBILITY [by TELECBAPH—EfggSS association] IXYERCARGILL. Friday "It Ls as impracticable as it is glorioils," was the comment of Mr. Leslie Murrell, of Manapouri, who knows the Sounds intimately, on the proposed road round the Sounds, as suggested by MfT'lt. A. Anderson to the Southland League. • , As he visualised the scheme, said Mr. Murrell, one quarter of the road would have;, to be h£wn out of solid rock. Ee did not think an engineer would seriously survey it. It was iuconceivable to him that anyone who knew the character of the country and the floods' that swept down the valleys, transforming them into lakes, could propose such a road. In his letter to the League, Mr. Anderson stated that the road would provide d large number of men with work for a good many years, and if the Unemployment Board would subscribe fo much, and the Government and the Main Highways Board each made a subsidy, then the men could be employed full time. It was estimated by the president of the league that the road would ba 250 miles long, but Mr. Murrell contends that if a level of 500 ft. to 700 ft. were maintained, it would be 1000 miles in length. He could see as much as £IOO,OOO a mile being spent on some parts.