HBH 1890 APRIL 2 Wairoa road Telegraphic News - Tuesday Page Two All WAIROA settlers are well pleased the likelihood of this place being connected with NAPIER by means of a good dray road. The work, in justice to Wairoa and the East Coast, should have been carried out years ago. The undertaking is not for the purpose, as erroneously stated in some quarters, of opening up lands between here and Napier, but as a certain means of keeping open communication with the commercial centre of the districts at all times, which this district urgently needs, and also as a continuation of the present dray road between GISBORNE and WAIROA, which will double the usefulness of this thoroughfare by providing means of traffic right through from Gisborne to Napier instead of being stopped at Wairoa by the present wretched bridle track between here and Napier. Both Parliament and the government are against any assistance being granted for the purpose of tampering with the Wairoa harbor, looking upon all proposed Works for that purpose as too expensive and precarious, owing to the fact that the mouth of the river being right in a bight of Hawke's Bay, exposed to the full force of the southers, which no matter what is done to the river would always interrupt traffic by sea.