TE TEKO 'MUD-HOLES'
(To the Editor) Sir, —I notice in your last Issue that you referred to the ghastly state of the main highway at Te Teko la the following terms: "The clay filling degenerating to deep mud, which held up traffic/' This I consider is about the mildest manner in whicli this monstrosity of a road as it then existed could be described. A3 one of the unfortunates compelled to make, use of it on Saturday morning following the rain, let me say that upon that occasion it was the worst of Main Highway, in New Zealand. Not only that it was a disgrace to our district and a distinct reflection on the roading authorities. To have been so shortsighted as to have filled in the road with loose rubble and clay just prior to the winter months seems to me to be something of slight on the mentality of our wt>r_ thy Highways Board. Surely this must have been an accident or an oversight. It canncft have been deliberate. If it was then all I can say is that it is the finest botch that has ever been my lot to encounter. Yours etc. * MOTORIST.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 1, Issue 18, 31 May 1939, Page 4
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197TE TEKO 'MUD-HOLES' Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 1, Issue 18, 31 May 1939, Page 4
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