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Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXIII, Issue 4472, 27 September 1922, Page 2

What the back blocker in the wilds of Southland has to put up with in the way of roads should make the residents of the favoured North Island districts blush when they complain to the County Council pf trivial matters that would be beneath the notice of the hardy Southlander. A mote from a correspondent of the Western Star gives an idea of a “duck-walk” in that district, and is as follows: “A lot of ink has been spilt recently over the bad state of the roads in the Western District, but we have one here which will spill anyone who tackles it. A well-known resident ‘tackled’ it on horseback recently while on -his way to work in the early morning and immediately got into difficulties. Being dark, the horse gbt bogged in the mud, ahd bogged its rider, too. The unhappy couple were compelled to remain ‘bogged’ for upwards of two hours, until assistance arrived when the pair had ts> fie dug out. A few days alter another rider ventured with similar results, only he managed to extricate himself with--, out the use pf the shovel. Two shovels arp now left handy in case of emergency.”