KIRITEHERE-MOEATOA.
Own Correspondent
While we hav« been hearing a deal about the pushing through of country roads and telephone lines, substantial work in this direction has, during the past few years, been practically at a atandtstill. No progressive roading policy has been carried out and our so-called roads are what they were years ago—mere bridle tracks. It is impossible for any country to progress when much of its mutual wealth is locked up owing to want of better roads since it is only the cream of the produce that can be transported t a profit. Bad roads increase the cost of living and the cost of production alike, and the producer consumer have to pay dearly through no fault of their own. Let us then have roads. Good roads mean motor, lorry, and omnibus service, which when the road surface is set is a cheaper means of locomotion than coach or stage horse, and a great deal faster.
In the meantime a regular mail coach service from Te Kuiti to Marokopa is held up owing to the unwidened Mangakokopu road and part of the Pomorangi intervening —a narrow span of five mileß.
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King Country Chronicle, Volume VII, Issue 588, 26 July 1913, Page 5
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192KIRITEHERE-MOEATOA. King Country Chronicle, Volume VII, Issue 588, 26 July 1913, Page 5
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