Kimbo106Nov 19

Voyage au cœur de Te Kūiti

Flavien poursuit sa route vers Te Kūiti, une étape sans éclat mais pleine de petits moments qui comptent. Le trajet défile, avec ses paysages qui changent doucement et ses pensées qui vagabondent au même rythme. Pas d’aventure spectaculaire aujourd’hui, juste la simplicité d’un voyage qui suit son cours, avec la sympathie légendaire des Néo-Zélandais.
Il observe, il attend, il avance. Parfois, ce sont ces journées-là qui disent le plus : celles où l’on respire, où l’on regarde autour de soi sans rien forcer. Une pause dans le mouvement, un instant suspendu avant la suite. Un chapitre discret, mais qui fait partie du chemin.

https://librexpression.fr/flavien-en-voyage-vers-te-kuiti-39-55

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John ArnoldJul 25, 2024
_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.
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/EP19240726.2.198.1
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