Fitzherbert Gorge Road.
The settlers m Fitzherbert are beginning to agitate for the construction, or rather opening up and making practicable for traffic the road throngh to the Gorge, so as to save the heavy expenses incurred from ferry tolls m using the present route. They affirm that but a small outlay would be required to render it passable for stock, and that the saving to them annually would be very considerable. If a small outlay would open the route, as affirmed, the Eoad Board might be inclined to sanction the expenditure. Personally speaking, we do not know much of the intervening country, or the nature of the route, but settlers who have traversed it. arffim that under A'so would make it passable for stock, at least for the greater portion of the year, and that if opened the road would be very generally made use of by the settlers. It is said by those m a position to know that a large portion of the stock now being taken through the Gorge would go through Fitzherbert m preference were the route open.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume IX, Issue 114, 18 April 1885, Page 3
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183Fitzherbert Gorge Road. Manawatu Standard, Volume IX, Issue 114, 18 April 1885, Page 3
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