NEW LAKESIDE ROAD

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXII, Issue 22247, 23 October 1935, Page 10

NEW LAKESIDE ROAD

KINGSTON TO QUEENSTOWN WORK NEARING COMPLETION ■ <t —— With only six chains of the new Lake iWakaiipu highway to be hewn away for the work of two large gangs to be linked up, the trarelling public will toon be offered a delightful route through the Southern Lakes district — a route that will eliminate that ' doubling back on one's tracks which is the bugbear of all tourists, states the Otago l>aily Times. Rapid progress has been made with the road from Kingston to Queenstown, and to-day only a few chains of rock separate the - camps of the construction parties .which commenced work from each end of the road over a year ago. The men are now- within hail of each other, and it is on record that a pair of enterprising cyclists have already traversed the entire route by carrying, pushing or pulling their machines across the intervening space that has yet to be conquered. It is stated that a temporary road will be completed j right through before Christmas. The new highway presents the huge j S-shaped Lake Wakatipu in a new and attractive way Only the dark-hued waters are the same. Hemmed in entirely by mountains, it reveals s totally different aspect when it is ' viewed from a motor-car creeping carofully round locky bluffs or noisily across shingly flats. It is not the Lake Wakatipu which most people have admired from the deck of the steamer. ;