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Hokitika Guardian, 29 August 1917, Page 2

Thebe is every likelihood of the motor sorvieo between Hokitika and Jacksons coming into being this spring: and summer, in connection with the overland service, which fails to connect with with Hokitiku. on Oertnin days of the week. Frequently of late, travellers have utilised special cars for the purpose, and so saved hours of delay as well as train fare and a nights accommodation by tihe enforced overnight stay «.t Greymonth. TSh© enterprise

which will Jesuit in tho establishment of the'motor service, we refer to, will avoid all that, and afford the means to travellers .to reach their destination much quicker and quite as soon as the train, still continuing the journey, arrives at Greymouth. The jumping off point from tho railway, it is suggested, should bo Jackson, which via Dillmani, would mean about 42 miles run to Hokitika, or via Rawhaka, a 35 miles run to Hokitika. This latter would not he any longer that the present motor journey to Greymouth from Hokitika, so that it will ho seen what possibilities there arc in the shortening of the. overland journey to Hokitika. The service if established should also provide for the carriage of mails, at all events.for the letter portion, and so effect an important saving to the business community. Hokitika is so much isolated in a general way that anything which will tend to improve the means of communication should ho fully exploited so that the community as a whole will get the benefit of the possible changes. The new scheme should be oncoumged as much as possible and once its existence is known it will soon become fully established.