TOURIST ROUTE
ANOTHER STRONG CRITICISM.
(BT TELEGRAPH.—PRESS ASSOCIATION.)
. .DUNEDIN, This Day. , Mr. Fred Jones, editor of the " Oamaru Mail," who has returned from Lake Manapouri, states that the road from Lumsden to the Lakes, about fifty miles, is a terrible drawback for tourists, being in a shocking condition. In the interval of twenty years since he.last visited the district, the road has been improved from Lumsden to the Mararoa River. Thence onwards, however, it ceases "to be a road at all. The position has been greatly aggrevated, he said, by the recent floods. The bridge over the river has lost four piles,- and is closed to vehicular traffic. The track from the cross-road to. Manapouri is impassable, and between Lake Te Anau and Lake Manapouri the road is so bad that the cars were compelled to run on first gear for thirteen miles, taking nearly two hours.. Complaints about this road are universal. There are holes in it two feet deep.
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Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 18, 22 January 1924, Page 8
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161TOURIST ROUTE Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 18, 22 January 1924, Page 8
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