"NUMEROUS SETBACKS"

Opotiki News, Volume I, Issue 96, 12 October 1938, Page 3

"NUMEROUS SETBACKS"

COAST SCHSI (I II O' H\Y A V “There have been numerous selh.ieks <1 iiriiijjc the winter with the construction ol tin 1 bridges on the Coast seenic highway hetween Gisborne and Opotiki, hut the road surface is now in tairly good coiidition,” said the 1 1 istrict engineer. .Mr O. C. Thornton, to a press representative on Wednesday. The department in Gisborne was interested in the iniil(lin<r of the bridge over the Whnngnpnrou River and tlie work had been delayed seriously by many floods, during one of winch most df the equipment. was swept away. To „the’ north, the bridge constrmtion was being carried out under the supervision of the Tnurnnga .Department and Mr Thornton was unable to give a progress report. However, be knew one of the problems was the difficulty of getting snHieient tradesmen to work at a job Unit was so far away from the amenities of a town. Jo view of those facts it was diflieuft to give any assurance that the worst of the Coast rivers would lie bridged earlv in the New Year. Oh the Gisborne side of the Fast Cape several of thh hills were still “(’reclinin'' to a certain, extent, and it would he difficult to keep those seelions of the highway true for some time. There were still some temporary fillings on the road that would lie made permanent early in the summer.