OUR ROADS AND RAILWAYS
SEVERE CONDEMNATION. (By Telesraph.-Special Correspondent.) Auckland, February 21. "Now Zealand is progressing nil right," said Mr. James E. Liddiml, F.R.G.S., who is visiting Auckland, to a "Herald" reporter, "but your roads and your railways —ivoll, I am surprised that the people put up with them. Right through the. Dominion it is tho same. On a twenty-five mile, stretch of road between Pipiriki and Ohnkune that I camo over the other day there arc great boulders that will see a hundred years out before they are broken. In the winter, I am told, it is mud—a sea of mud up to the coach's axles. That is what tourists meet with. How bad the back-blocks settlers must fare! Your railway services are dreadful. I came up by the Main Trunk express from Wellington, and quite a number of people were standing, while others were sitting on the arms of the seats."
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Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1373, 26 February 1912, Page 4
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153OUR ROADS AND RAILWAYS Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1373, 26 February 1912, Page 4
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