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suggests in how large a degree every accomplishment of man is but a 

 development of subconscious action. 



The two paths instanced happened to pass over ground where for 

 two or three miles at a stretch no natural declivities or obstacles 

 occur ; where, in fact, the walk, the normal pace of mounted shepherds, 

 could be quickened into the trot or canter. Horses ridden slowly follow 

 sharp sinuosities without trampling the salients of each corner ; trotting, 



Path formed by horses walking, trotting, cantering. 



these salients are impinged upon ; at a canter they are trodden out. 

 Horses ridden at racing speed would, I believe, in time rule out paths 

 almost perfectly straight. In this elimination of curves, what the 

 shepherd's horse has accomplished automatically and subconsciously, 

 has been in later days ordained deliberately and of conscious purpose 

 by the Hawke's Bay County Council. Now that a road has been 

 installed, now that the advent of cars make it possible to travel at 

 greater speed, sharp corners are also being spaded off the Napier- Wairoa 



Napier- Wairoa road, showing curves straightened by H. B. C. C. 



road. Man, who develops every hint provided in nature, has done on 

 a grand scale what the shepherd's horse had accomplished without care 

 and without forethought. 



We have seen what has been done on the uncharted void of early 

 Tutira by pig, cattle, sheep, and mounted shepherds. The pack-team's 

 work, too, is written large on the surface of the run. It also, in olden 

 days before the advent of a dray-road, played an important part in 

 station activities. All material then was carried on horses' backs, wool 



