Deviation Avoids Razorback Ridge
NEW ROAD OPEN HIGH GEAR TO HAMILTON High gear from Auckland to Hamilton —-that is the latest experience motorists have enjoyed. Hitherto prohibited by the steep hills between Drury and Pokeno, the run in high gear has been introduced by the opening of the Bombay deviation. During the winter large gangs of men who would otherwise have been unemployed, were kept at work on the deviation, which breaks from the main road at the foot of the first steep hill on the run south from Drury, and rejoins the existing highway by way of the Pukekolie Road. OLD MILITARY ROAD It avoids the steep ridges of the Razorback by following a detour to the west, and its grades and curves are acceptably easy.
As it is not yet metalled, the deviation is passable only in dry weather. During the past week many motorists have traversed it, and find it much preferable to the old road, which was constructed by soldiers camped in the district during the Maori war period, and presents some of the steepest pinches of the North Island highway system.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 206, 19 November 1927, Page 10
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186Deviation Avoids Razorback Ridge Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 206, 19 November 1927, Page 10
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