John Arnold_The Evening Post_, 26 July 1924:
THE AUCKLAND ROAD
As might have been expected, the main road to Auckland via #Mokau and Te Kuiti is practically impassable between those two places at the present time. The unmetalled gap between #Tongaporutu and #Awakino on the Main North road is quite impassable to anything but horse traffic, regular users of the route stating that a few of the mud-holes are deep enough to half bury a car in. Though motor traffic has been at a standstill since shortly after Easter, and it will need several weeks of fine weather to dry up the #mud, a good start had been made with the metalling southward from the Mokau River, before the wet weather compelled a virtual suspension of operations, and it is understood that the length of ten miles [16 km] or so now in mud will be in a condition for all-the-year motor traffic by the time next winter comes. Owing to the recent excessively heavy rainfall, the road between Te Kuiti and #Piopio was submerged in four places. At one spot the water was 2 feet 6 inches [75 cm] deep, and the mail car had to be towed through the flood by horses.
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THE AUCKLAND ROAD
As might have been expected, the main road to Auckland via #Mokau and Te Kuiti is practically impassable between those two places at the present time. The unmetalled gap between #Tongaporutu and #Awakino on the Main North road is quite impassable to anything but horse traffic, regular users of the route stating that a few of the mud-holes are deep enough to half bury a car in. Though motor traffic has been at a standstill since shortly after Easter, and it will need several weeks of fine weather to dry up the #mud, a good start had been made with the metalling southward from the Mokau River, before the wet weather compelled a virtual suspension of operations, and it is understood that the length of ten miles [16 km] or so now in mud will be in a condition for all-the-year motor traffic by the time next winter comes. Owing to the recent excessively heavy rainfall, the road between Te Kuiti and #Piopio was submerged in four places. At one spot the water was 2 feet 6 inches [75 cm] deep, and the mail car had to be towed through the flood by horses.
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