MOTORISTS IN MUD
MILE AN HOUR PROGRESS STRUGGLES ON CLAY ROADS (From Our Own Correspondent) MAUNGATUROTO, Monday. Abandoned mud-spattered cars and lorries at intervals on the roadside between Orewa and Warkworth mark the defeat of drivers and passengers who, in spite of the rain, left Auckland yesterday for various destinations in North Auckland. Several worked all night in the struggle that began as soon as they struck the clay sections of the highway. By persistent digging and pushing they could only register about a mile an hour, and heavy rain this morning damped their last spark of endeavour, and some sought shelter where they were while others tramped across country to get the Whangarei train. Under the hot sun at noon the roads were rapidly drying, but the fleet of Public Works lorries on the road formation work in the Wellsford district was directed to hold back a while to avoid ploughing up the sections which have been prepared for metalling.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 616, 19 March 1929, Page 7
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