DIFFICULT NATURE OF THE COUNTRY FOR ROADS.
The lovel nature of the ground for many miles arnind Tnvercaruill and on the routes to the interior, as is shown, attracted the bulk of the traitie through Southland, but this very fact rendered it imperative that long stretches of roads be made viable and maintained, where not previously required. And here a great difficulty met the Government on entertaining this question at tho outset -the absence of stone for road metal over the area of all this level country, and the depth of soil necessitating its use for many miles out from Invercargill. The hills near Bluff Harbour— some ten miles distant -were tiie nearest available for this purpose, and the necessity thus presented itself for obtaining the Rtones from that locality, and the lx>st and cheapest way of doing so, and maintaining a supply, was considered on every hand to be -a hue of rails.
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Timaru Herald, Volume II, Issue 65, 12 August 1865, Page 2
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154DIFFICULT NATURE OF THE COUNTRY FOR ROADS. Timaru Herald, Volume II, Issue 65, 12 August 1865, Page 2
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