WHAT BAD ROADS MEAN.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1810, 24 July 1913, Page 11

WHAT BAD ROADS MEAN.

TRAGIC STORIES OF LONELY WOMEN IN THE BUSH. BUDGET NO. XL The questions aa originally published in the Country Lite Issue of The Dominion are as follow 1. Are the Schools ill your neighbourhood training boys and girls satisfactorily for life on the farm? 2. Do the farmers in your neighbourhood get the returns they reasonably should from the sal© of their products? 3. Do the farmers in your neighbourhood receive from the railways and roads the service they reasonably should expect? 4. Do the farmers in your neighbourhood receive from the postal service, rural telephones, etc., the service they reasonably should expect? 5. Are the farmers in your neighbourhood obtaining direct benefit from the holding of Agricultural Shows? 6. Has the work of the Department of Agriculture been of direct benefit to the farmers in your neighbourhood? 7. Are the farmers and their wives in your neighbourhood satisfactorily organised to protect their mutual buying and selling interests? 8. Are the renters of farms in your neighbourhood making a satisfactory living? 0. Is tie supply' of farm labour in your neighbourhood satisfactory? 10. Are the conditions surrounding wage labour on the farms in your neighbourhood satisfactory to the labourer? 11 WHAT IN YOUR JUDGMENT IS THE MOST IMPORTANT SINGLE THING TO BE DONE FOR THE GENERAL BETTERMENT OF COUNTRY LIFE?

With this instalment the correspondence in reply to the questions to farmers published in The Dominion's Country Life issue of - June li will close, and a general review of the replies will appear shortly. The first of the letters printed below will give town-dwellers an idea of the loneliness and isolation which a pioneer's wife is often called upon to face. - Other letters have dwelt on what bad roads mean to the settler from a business point of view: this one throws a vivid light on. how his wife and family suffer also.