Heavy seas which have been running recently have played havoc with a section of the Greymouth-Westport coastal road at Barrytown, where the road for about a mile is within a few feet of highwater mark. The road at this point is in danger of being washed away entirely. The other night a service bus from Greyrnouth to Westport with mails and 18 passengers became bogged, and was not got clear until three hours later. A motor-lorry from Barrytown was used to pull the bus back on to solid ground. A resident of Barrytown said that “the road is the biggest joke since King Caute tried to get the tide to obey his orders. The money spent in trying to protect the road from the sea would have been better spent in forming a deviation away from the coast.”
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 4 July 1939, Page 4
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