“NEVER LOOKING BETTER”

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19375, 13 July 1937, Page 4

“NEVER LOOKING BETTER”

COAST ATTRACTIONS A.A. OFFICIAL’S COMMENT SIGNPOSTING REVISION “I cannot remember the Coast looking better,” said the touring manager of the Automobile Association (Auckland), Mr. R. E. thamptaloup, on his return to Gisborne from Te Puia yesterday after three days up the Coast on A.A. business.

He remarked that the weather had been delightful and although he had known the Coast since 1913, w’hen he first travelled from Gisborne to Te Araroa, it was the first occasion on which he had seen Mt. Hikurangi heavily coated with snow.

The Auckland information bureau of the association made contact annually with hundreds of overseas visitors and wherever time permitted an endeavour was made to induce tourists to include Poverty Bay in their itinerary of the Dominion. The two hot spring areas, at Te Puia and Morere, were a special attraction in this direction.

During the winter he did not expect to encounter many touring motorists from other countries, but on his recent trip up the Coast the A.A. official said he had met two separate parties of visiting motor tourists who were travelling under A.A. guidance and who expressed themselves as being delighted that they had included the Gisborne district as part of their tour.

The A.A. party inspected the bridge at the Karakatuwhero River and motored over the new structure. Photographs were taken to illustrate to members in other districts, the elimination of the open crossing, one of the terrors of previous years.

One of the objects of the visit to the Coast was the revision of the signposting system. As dangerous corners are eliminated and visibility improved, so travelling conditions improve and it ia therefore consideied very important that all unnecessary signs should be removed and others altered to suit the ever-changing conditions. As a result of the touring manager’s visit a total of over 200 new signs will be erected in various parts of the Poverty Bay and noi them Hawke's Bay districts within the next few months.