DISTRESSING STORY,

Colonist, Volume XLVIII, Issue 11762, 19 October 1906, Page 3

DISTRESSING STORY,

New Plymouth, October 18, The "Taranalri Herald" publishes a very "distressing 1 story of the experiences of a wife of a settler named Old, of Mahoenui. Mrs Old, seriously ill, had to be brought to New Plymouth for an operation. A vehicle wa3 obtained to convey her from Mahoenui to Mokau, a distance of 25 miles, but the road, which is the main artery between Taranaki and Auckland, was so bad that a stretcher had to be obtained, and Mrs Old was carried by settlers over the distance. Mr Old has occupied his land for 13 years, and there are numerous other settlers still without a road fit for wheel raffle in an unusually dry uctober. Last year Parliament voted £3000 for the Mokau-Tekuiti road, but only about one mile of the metal is completed, and nothing is being done now-.