GISBORNE RESIDENTS RETURN HOME.
STRANDED 1 IN HAWKE’S BAY
THE LONG WAY ROUND
Motorists 'from the!, Poverty Bay and East Coast district f clcd in Hawke’s Bay the recent Hoods are finding. their,way home by the long way round, many preferring the journey through Palmerston North, Tailiape, Rotorua and Opotiki tp tlio alternative of laying, their cars in Napier or Hastings, where garage space is reported to be congested. ,
A party driving in two cars reached Gisborne from. Napier at 2 a.m. on Friday, after having spent 36 hours on the road, including a. break at Taihape. ’ The journey should have been completed some hours earlier, but on the last lap of the trip the motorists encountered trouble in the Waioeka Gorge, where heavy rain brought down a. slip substantial enough to block the highway for a few hours. The slip was still being further enlarged as tho party drove up to it. Road conditions throughout the trip were fair, with the eception of the Waioeka blockage.
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Opotiki News, Volume I, Issue 28, 4 May 1938, Page 4
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167GISBORNE RESIDENTS RETURN HOME. Opotiki News, Volume I, Issue 28, 4 May 1938, Page 4
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