WAIKAREMOANA ROAD

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17231, 10 April 1930, Page 5

WAIKAREMOANA ROAD

REPORT ON CONDITION Motorists have been anxious to gather some reliable information concerning the new road round Waikaremouna, and that information has now been obtained by the Hawke’s Bay Automobile Association. Assuming that the weather is right, it is expected that the road will be fit for trafiic early next week, a dangerous rock corner being now in course of improvement, The. person who supplied the. information traversed its full length, and states that on the whole the load is very much better than he expected to find a new road. There were, of course, a number of sharp bends, and it is impossible to pass another car in lots of places, but on the whole it is safe. Timid or new drivers, he recommends, should not- be encouraged to make the trjp, but for anyone used to country roads there is nothing to worry about. The Public Works Department is truing up the surface over the whole distance, and has about nine or lU lorries metalling, so that the whole road may be in as good order as possible at Easter. lie added that he kept a, note of tinlimes between the. different- points, which might, he of interest, but it had to tie remembered there were a ! obstacles on the road when he went through that would he gone by Easter. Wairoa to Lake House took two hours, Lake House to Tlopiirunhine one hour, and Hoptminhinc to Wai-iti threequarters of an hour. The bridge over the Aniwariiwa stream is some distance from completion, but there is a very good ford provided in the meantime. All t.lui other bridges are finished, and all the worst patches metalled. Anyone making the trip, except, on the actual holidays, he added, must hron the lookout for metal lorries unHi they tire about a quarter of a mile pasl the saddle.