AUCKLAND AUTOMOBILE ASSOCIATION

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 788, 8 October 1929, Page 6

AUCKLAND AUTOMOBILE ASSOCIATION

Touring Manager's Itinerary The touring manager of the Auckland Automobile Association will leave the city on Friday morning to undertake a fortnight’s tour of the Taupo, Hawke’s Bay, Gisborne and Bay of Plenty districts. A meeting of association members will be held in Gisborne on Tuesday, 15th inst., after which the various counties on the Gisborne East Coast will be visited. The following itinerary will notify members of the association in the districts to be visited and enable them to make representations to the president. Mr. A. Grayson, who will accompany the touring manager throughout, the tour: —• Leave Auckland, Friday, October 11. —Travel Taupo. Saturday. October 12.—Napier. Sunday, October 13.—Waikaremoana Hostel. Monday, October 14.—Inspect new road through Urewera on northern shores of lake. Select, suitable camping sites and return to hostel. Tuesday, October 15. —Travel to Gisborne. Annual meeting of" members of Gisborne district in evening. Wednesday, October 16.—Travel to

Tologa Bay, Confer with county engineer. Stop Walpiro Bay overnight. Thursday, October 17.—Confer with county engineer, Waipiro Bay. Travel to Ruatoria and if possible to Te Araroa. Friday, October IS.—Confer with county engineer, Te Araroa. Return to Ruatoria. Saturday, October 19.—Return to Gisborne. After spending necessary time in Gisborne, return to Auckland, via O'potiki and Bay of Plenty, arriving in Auckland about October 23 or 24. The first edition of the 1930 motorists’ road map for the North Island has recently been issued. This is the North Auckland map and is an excellent publication which is in every way equal to the best road maps issued overseas. The Auckland Automobile Association advises motorists to avoid tho East Coast Road between Devonport and Warkwortk, as it is in a bad condition at the present time and cars using the road within the next few days win nullify work which is being carried out by the Public Works Department. Given fine weather it is expected that a reasonable surface will be provided within the next 10 days. The Aramatai Deviation, which turns off the old road four miles from the Te Kuiti-New Plymouth Road has now been opened for traffic. A good deal of construction work on this deviation was carried out in the winter, with the result that the banks are very wet. Under these conditions it is not possible to roll the bottom course until the road dries out. The Auckland Automobile Association therefore advises motorists with cars with low clearances to proceed with caution, but suggests that the saving m time and distance makes it worth undertaking the short stretch of two miles which has as yet only beencovered with a rough bottom course of metalling. The road will probably be rolled and placed in smooth order during January.