MAIN NORTH ROAD

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 580, 5 February 1929, Page 7

MAIN NORTH ROAD

MOTORISTS ASKED TO MAKE DETOURS

METALLING TO BEGIN

Metalling on portions of tha No. 1 main highway north are clue to commence immediately, and the engineers have made a special request to the Auckland Automobile Association and all motorists to use detours between Puhoi and Warkworth, Warkworth and Wellsford, and Wellsford and Kaiwaka.

Several hundred men have been working on the route for some months, and now that portions of the formation have been completed the laying of the first course of metal will commence to-morrow. The work is being expedited with a view to completion before the winter. Interference with the gangs by heavy motor traffic would delay progress, and the ultimate benefit will be to motorists if the recommendations of the automobile association are followed. Signs marked "Recommended Route” are to be placed by the association. Travelling north from Auckland, cars should pass through Hender son and then take the route via Swanson and Waitakere to Kumeu and Helensville. The West Coast road is then followed through Port Albert to Wellsford, where the railway line is crossed to junction with the East Coast road after a run of three miles. This continues through Mangawai. and cars for Dargaville should keep through Kaiwaka to join the main Auckland-Dargaville route. Traffic bound for Whangarei will turn off just past Mangawai and continue through Waipu.