Untitled

Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 85, 5 January 1920, Page 5

The prime importance of tho common joadway in matters of transport and national economy is becoming fully recognUed (remarks an Australian writer). The advent of the motor vehicle has put the matter beyond dispute, and those interested in the improvement of tho ihij/h----i ways, realising the magnitude of the subject, consider that it (should no longer be a State matter, but one, as in tho United States, under the- aegis of the Federal authorities. In thi3 connection it is interesting to note that the United States Government has allotted one biiliou dollars to be expended on nationhighways over a given term. Instead of forming local good roads' association) in any Stale, it is proposed to institute hero a Federal highway lr«,»u<>, with headquarters at the seat of Government, and branch organisations in each of tohu Slates, Melbourne motorists are intereeting themselves in tho matter, and as several intend visiting Sydney on the occasion of the motor show the subject will l>e brought up for discussion at one of the meetincs. A fresh attempt by the Social Demo crats of Saxony to form a Government with tho Independent Socialist: - haf failed. A sub-committee of the wecu tiro commitieo bus been authorised t< bring about a solution of the Govern ment question on a Parliamentary basis