ROAD CONDITIONS

Waikato Times, Volume 122, Issue 20492, 7 May 1938, Page 6

ROAD CONDITIONS

SEVERAL ROUTES BLOCKED WAIKATO HIGHWAYS OPEN While no trouble Is likely to be experienced in the Waikato by motorists during the week-end extreme care should b.e exercised where reconstruction works are In progress. On several routes In the province detours will be necessary and the latest reports from the Hamilton area office of the Automobile Association (Auckland) notify that some East Coast roads are definitely closed. In view of flooding in the area, motorists are recommended to use the plains road between Paeroa and Thames. The Thames-Coromandel road Is open for traffic, although a slip has come down on the Kerlta Hill. This should be cleared to-day, however. The same road is badly damaged at Thornton's Bay, where extreme care Is necessary. Between Tapu and Mercury Bay the road Is blocked but the Coromandel-Mercury Bay route is open. A washout near the Ptpiroa ferry will make a detour via Ngatea neeessarv for ears travelling between Thames. Auckland and Paeroa Junction. Neither the Taupo-Napier or the Napier-Walroa roads Is yet open and the highway to Taurangs over the Kalmais is also blocked following the collapse of the temporary bridge over the Mangahuruhuru Stream. Between Gisborne and Wairoa, the Morere route is blocked and the road via Tinoroto is recommended for experienced drivers only, while the Gisborne-East Coast route Is open as far as Gisborne onlv. On the main south route to Wellington, traffic is detouring via Shannon owing to floods at the Manawatu bridge, on the Foxton-Levln stretch.