SOUTHERN TOURIST RESORT
“ROAD IN SHOCKING STATE.” LUMSDEN TO THE LAKES. Per Press Association. DUNEDIN, January 22. Mr Fred Jones, editor of the “Oamaru Mail,” who has returned from Lake Manapouri, statee that the road irom Lumsden to the Lakes, about 50 miles, is a terrible drawback for tourists, being in a shocking condition. In the interval of 20 years since h« last visited the district, the road has been improved from Lumsden to the Mararoa river. Thence onwards, however, it ceases to be a road at all. The position has been greatly aggrevatei’., he said, by the recent floods. The bridge over the river has lost four piles, and is closed to vehicular traffic. The track from the cross-road to Manapouri is impassable, and betw-een Lake To Anau and Lake Manapouri the road is so bad that the cars were compelled to run on first gear for 13 miles taking nearly two hours. Complaints about this road are universal. There are holes in it two feet deep.
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New Zealand Times, Volume LI, Issue 11734, 23 January 1924, Page 6
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