A DANGEROUS HIGHWAY.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 1515, 26 February 1916, Page 2

A DANGEROUS HIGHWAY.

There is a stretch of highway, about two miles in length, this side of the Palmerston borough boundary on the PalmerstonFoxton road, which is the curse of motorists. It is under the control of the Kairanga County Council and for roughness and treachery it is absolutely ou its own. The formation is a high crown consisting of boulders and ruts. The hot weather has brought these obstructions to the surface and quantities are rolled down either side of the road making the sides even worse than the crown. It is surprising that a responsible body should allow an important length of arterial road to remain in such a disgraceful and dangerous state. Not only is the road dangerous to the travelling public’s life and limb but the oldiasbioned wooden culverts in the same locality are also a source of danger. These should be replaced by concrete bridges such as the one erected at Rangiotu by the combined Manawatu and Kairanga counties. .Our .complaints against the Manawatu County in respect to the Himatangi road fa times past is only a circumstance ,qompared to the two miles length, under notice and we are surprised; that our Palmerston contemporaries have not directed attention (to - the matter.