GISBORNE-WAIROA ROAD.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume L, Issue 16607, 10 December 1924, Page 5

GISBORNE-WAIROA ROAD.

FOUR YEARS’ IMPROVEMENT. MINISTER'S APPRF.OI ATION. It is four years ago to the very day since (he Minister of Education and Justice, the Hon. C. J. Pair, 0.M.0., visited dishorn", and on Urn lormer occasion, as on this, he’ trawled o\erland from Niij.ier. At that lime the Govmnneid had not taken in hand the ouestioii of providing good mad access to the J.sliirt, and at the civic ivc.|diun which was then accorded him. the .Minister was pinniped to remark that the onlv compensation for the shocking roads over which be had travelled was the fact that they led into one of the finest diet! ids in the Dominion. In four years nnuli lias bran done to improve'the main south road, and this fact was not lost upon by Mr. Parr when he join r.i". i.d through v<-;--t ci dav.

"1 v onii 1 lit", e: lui \ i kn„ ,vn I u a-. < uin lie; to to • j.' ,t , . a,; Ihe Millislcr lad tn ii:i. ' l h road has l.tvn womb : f o' lv impi ,;\ , d. and u is no ", quite a pica iuv In lia \eim cr il. Four years ag, il was 1<!1 It- liollci loan a cattl ■ i rack, hut to dav il is in splendid Condi! ion over prnei icaiiv the viu J;« h-ngth. and the Public Works DeparlTin.nt is entitled to every credit fur its excellent work.” The Minister added that Poverty Ray’s guigrapliieul situation demanded good load access, and with the road which had now keen provided a v isit to (lisbonie was quite a plcasiu c. The Minister was again impressed with tlie prosperous ,'limitnance of the distiict, and stated I ha) the eniid.it ion of (im pasturps, both mi (lie hills and tlm fiats, and of the slock, was striking evidence of ilie excellent nature of tho district.