FOR MOTORISTS.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 412, 22 January 1909, Page 9

FOR MOTORISTS.

; ■THE BOAO FROM AUCKLAND TO ; : " : -;..'-'Ay;- ■/;■;WELLINGTON. ;.://: / ■;.; .Mr. Hamilton Grace; who.has just motored from /Auckland to Wellington by a somewhat circuitous' route, ought; to • know something' about the. roads, , : seeing .that, he x performed the/'journey on a 26 horse-power, solid-tyred! machine,' for-the' solid-tj're is' the bpst of road fault-finders.-Mr. Grace;came via Cambridge, Tβ Aroha, Paeroft, Waihi, , Tauraliga', Rotprua; Taupo, Napier, Jfalmerston North, an'd.Foxton. .He says that.he. travelled from. Auckland to Cambridge fivo years ago, and tho roads, then ..were in a -bettor'. condition than they.aro ■ now." The going- oh" tho flat was fair but bumpy, but tho roads over the Razorback and Rangariri hills badly require patching up-, with /metal, 'The least , said about tho road from Cambridge to Paeroa tho better, but'ffOm-/there on to Tauranga or further, oivto.To Puke, was vory fair. -.; Mr.' Grace would, adviso; alj.mbtorists using that routoto take tho new road through the Murigaraua Gorge tpjß-otorua. By'doing so thov will find the going very fair and cut out all the hills. From Rotorua to Waiotapu the road was very dusty, indeed worso than he. had found it previously, but from there on to Taupo, the roads were very good, arid motoring was a pleasure. From Taupo to Tarawera (50. miles) tho roads were good, but.' a quantity/of was encountered on |He long Tauranga-Kuma and- 'IHtiokoro | : grades.; From ..Pohiu (26 miles from Napier j ■'to. Wellington; tho .going, was just a pleasurj ablo promenade. / . : .; -. ■ ..--.,