HIGHWAYS OR QUAGMIRES?
'•• ■ '' ■*" ~~~ v ~" ■ ' •/' ''■><' \ PERILS OF EAST COAST TRAVEL. IBy ■ToießrnDh.43p'ecfal'oorreai>ona'Bnt.) ■- ; , ,: > Auckland, August -24. : The Gisborne correspondent, of the "Herald" draws a dismal picture of bad roads on the East Coast. He says :—"Some idea of the state of the roads between Gisborne and Wairoa may be gathered from .the at one spot; on-tie Wairoa side of Stewart's" Crossing, on Saturday, nine 'swingletrees .were' broken ~ and four or five, traps we're piled up on the side of the.road' through breakages. The Wairoa County gineer was one,: of. the unfortunate* travellers who' was ■' thus' stuck' up,"and" a 'party" "of ladies.who were with .him had to get out into a sea of. mud. It .required the assistance of a party of eight Natives, using levers, to extricate one vehicle from the bog ;at thesame spot. On Sunday the: Hon;. James Carroll's buggy came to grief, theswingletreo being broken. Tho Mayor of Gisborne, when returning to;.town; hadthe'axlo "of his trap smashed at another bad placo on .the road. ~. ■
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Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 595, 25 August 1909, Page 9
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165HIGHWAYS OR QUAGMIRES? Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 595, 25 August 1909, Page 9
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