SHEEP DELAY MOTORISTS
BIG MOBS TRAVELLING GISBORNE TO WAIKATO (From Our Own Correspondent) OPOTIKI, To-day. About 20,000 sheep are now in the Opotikl district on the way North. All the sheep are from Poverty Bay and most of them are travelling on the Moto-Opotiki road. A large mob of 8,000 using the new Waioeka road from Gisborne. At present there is no motor traffic on this road, which is being widened and improved. It is understood that the sheep will travel to the railhead at Taneatua, where they will be railed to the Waikato and other parts. The journey from Gisborne occupies about 18 days. Service cars and tourists are having an unpleasant time passing through the mobs on the narrow parts of the Opot.iki-Motu mountain road, in some cases over an hour being lost on the journey between Opotiki and Gisborne. Travellers report a bad section of the Opotiki-Gisborne road between Otoko and Matawai is now in splendid order. A few weeks ago this section was in a terrible state.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 577, 1 February 1929, Page 16
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171SHEEP DELAY MOTORISTS Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 577, 1 February 1929, Page 16
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