Highways Board Thinks Road North Of Taihape One Of Country’s Worst
“We appreciate that the road from Taihape northward is one of the worst we have in this country,” stated the acting-chairman of the Main Highways Board, Mr Trevor Smith, during the board’s visit to Wanganui yesterday, when Mr S. A. Gibbons said that the Automobile Association (Wanganui) supported the Taihape Chamber of Commerce’s request for the completion of sealing of the Desert Road. To improve the road satisfactorily the board would have to concentrate all its plant in the district and push the work ahead at top speed. A new detour route north from Taihape was really needed, but this would be a major job that the board could not consider at present. Mr M. H. Wynyard (motorists’ representative) said that H was the board s intention to seal the remainder of the Desert Road so that a sealed surface would be between Taupo and Wellington. When work on the Napier-Taupo highway was completed the board could concentrate its efforts on the Desert Road and a detour north of Taihape. The board considered it better fp concentrate on one major job at a time.
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Wanganui Chronicle, 2 November 1950, Page 7
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