SOUTHERN HIGHWAYS
MANY IMPROVEMENTS [from OUR OWN correspondent] HAMILTON, Sunday The improvement in the state of southern highways was commented on yesterday by Mr. W. Hopkins, area officer in charge of the "VVaikato office of the Automobile Association (Auckland), who yesterday completed an extensive tour of North Island routes with the association touring manager, Mr. R. E. Champtaloup. A great deal of reconstruction, straightening and tar-sealing had been done since he made a similar inspection three years ago, he said. Mr. Hopkins criticised the maintenance of several routes on which there was a scarcity of fine loose metal, the grader passing over such surfaces without filling potholes. Roads in the southern part of the North Island were much better than those in the Auckland Province, he considered.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22505, 24 August 1936, Page 5
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127SOUTHERN HIGHWAYS New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22505, 24 August 1936, Page 5
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