MASTERTON TO PONGAROA
ROAD COMMUNICATION
An Eketahuna correspondent of the IVUvinaaiapa Aige, vllao has been right itjbrough the AKredfei-JPongaroa districts, suggests to us .that the Ma&tenton and Eketahuna Chambers of XJonvnei-ce might join together to push on the metalling of the AJLfred-iton-Weber road, llbe outlet flor this ftne dish-kit at present is over the ißuketoi Range to Fahintua, .while a much better graded road of the same length would bring all the trade south, if the twelve miles now unm ©balled tos completed. In addition to being a.rr.aicsi better outlet, the residents would reach the railway line seventeen miles nearer Masterton and WVUiingtom. At present the bulk of the trade and passengers •pp via Manawatu. 'lllie oorrestpoanlent conaidlens that the agitation for a railway should continue, but as it will be many years reaching Pongaroa, the roost important matter is to complete th« present means of •oomiir/unimtion, and bring the miails and trade south. Thds is' the wri'sh of a numiber of Bongaroa settlers.. In foot, the correspondent was informed that an agitation was to be started "in. Plongaroa wiith this objeclfc in .'TIOW.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10474, 10 November 1911, Page 5
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184MASTERTON TO PONGAROA Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10474, 10 November 1911, Page 5
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