EAST COAST HIGHWAY
USE BY HOLIDAY-MAKERS Numbers of campers aro still visiting Gisborne in the course of their summer tours. According to the resident automobile association patrol, Mr. D. M. McGregor, a large number of motorists have made the journey recently from Opotiki to Gisborne by way of the East Cape scenic route. The patrol said he had been told repeatedly by travellers that from what they had learned before making the trip they thought they would havo to be prepared for a difficult journey around tho coast. They were surprised at tho comparatively good condition of the route and wero looking forward to tho time when they would be making a return visit on tho completion of the bridging of the fords. The element of doubt regarding the fordability of tho streams would then bo removed.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 23275, 18 February 1939, Page 14
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137EAST COAST HIGHWAY New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 23275, 18 February 1939, Page 14
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