TARANAKI ROADS.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 3753, 11 February 1928, Page 3

TARANAKI ROADS.

EQUAL THOSE OF ENGLAND,

Mi'. W. R. Morris, the well-known manufacturer of English motor cars, in his desire to see overseas conditions for himself, and to learn what was required by the New Zealand public, drove his own car from Auckland to Wlellington, covering some 1400 miles all told. He told a Dominion reporter that he found the New Zealand roads better than he expected, and far superior to what, he had been led to bqheve. Considering the age of the country, and the short time there had been to construct them, he considered our roads remarkably good. He had travelled over a good assortment of them, and many were really wonderful, those in Taranaki being as good as anything in England. He was of opinion that half the agitation for wide tracks was American propaganda, and was unwarranted. He himself did not see one solitary road where a wide track was necessary. The worst road he' travelled ovex 1 was one in which thei’e was about four inches clearance between the crown of the road and the lowest point of the chassis.