THE HUTT ROAD.

Press, Volume LXI, Issue 18365, 24 April 1925, Page 6

THE HUTT ROAD.

TRAFFIC "INCREASING DAILY."

A visitor to the Hutt district has returned with loud praises of the bitumen road which lies between it and Wellington.

"We have a- few good roads in and around Christehurch," ho remarked to "Roadster," yesterday, "but nothing "o equal that wonderful track. Though I was driving a Ford of rather mature age, she glided along that road on the different occasions unon which I had the pleasure of passing to and from Wellincton with tho grace and ease of a Rolls-Royce. It is probably a veryexpensive undertaking for any public l>ody, and not one that is likely to commend itself now that the Highways Act is in operation. I learned that the. Wellington authorities, however, contemplate «x----tendino; the road for ten miles or so beyond the Hutt, so that the motorist punter will be in paradise at future Trentham meetings." This motorist also declared to "Roadster" that the traffic on the road, especially between Wellington and the station Avas being decorated, Petone was showing a ; 'visible daily increase."

"You have to kee 0 your attention well concentrated on the wheel during the rush hours," he added. "At times there is a literal procession of cars, and Sunday, especially, is a very busv time. Some motorists, strange to say, are not very enthusiastic about the road—t don't know for what reason—and engineers and a few municipal, authorities from outside districts shake their heads pessimistically when its nfaises are sounded by the effusive newcomer. But my first impressions at least are most 'favourable to the idea that it will prove a payable proposition avid a great boon to the wheel fraternity. In Lower Hutt, by the way, the old metal road between the Railway Hotel and tho station was beintr recrowned, and shortly there will be a bitumen track over'that strip."