RANGITOTO DOMAIN
ROAD FORMATION WORK NEARING END NEW PICNIC SPOTS After three and a-half years of steady work the prison labour gangs on Rangitoto Island are nearing the end of subformation work. The surfacing of the roads with crushed scoria and volcanic ash will now have to be undertaken. The engineer to the Domain Board, Mr. A. T. Griffiths, has provided a semi-portable crusher to help minimise transport difficulties, for there are no by-pass routes on Rangitoto, the road having been car ried through virgin and exceedingly rocky country. Fortunately, a huge deposit of ash has been found near the summit, and its use entails work ing backward. The men must be carried over the unblinded portion of the route to get to the deposit which is to be used, instead of being able to work from their base camp upward. The Domain Board is eager to have the job completed, and the engineer w'as instructed to ascertain the cost of a suitable roller for use on the work. About 12 months’ work is still required. The new roads are opening up some fine picnic grounds—one party from the City has visited the Island three times recently to lunch at a particularly favoured spot on a new crossroad from the caves.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 730, 1 August 1929, Page 18
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