Planning New Wainui-Valley Road
The recent purchaser of the 4000-acre Burdan farm in Gollans Valley and Wainuiomata, Mr. F. Turvey, of Newlands, is planning to establish a new road from the valley to Wainuiomata.
The hills between the Wainui Valley and Gollans Valley are not very steep, and Mr. Turvey, an earthmoving contractor, believes the road could be widened much more easily than the present road from Eastbourne to Gollans Valley. It could then provide a major access route if Gollans Valley was opened for housing development.
The valley was only 16 miles from Wellington City, said Mr. Turvey. It was much closer to Wellington than such dormitory suburbs as Upper Hutt and Paraparaumu.
Mr. Turvey’s immediate plans are to bring back into production much of the overgrown farmland in the valley, where gorse and heather are covering large areas of potential and former grazing land.
