The Times. Published on Tuesday and Friday Afternoons.
TUESDAY, AUGUST 1, 1922. OUR BAD ROADS.
“We nothing extenuate, nor aught set down in malice.”
A VISITOR from America who lias been making an extensive tour of New Zealand by motor car states thsit the roads of the Dominion are They were >a bad advertisement, he said, fdr ,such a glorious country, which from a commercial' standpoint muijt retard the productivity of the soil through th,e inability of the producers ’to get; their produce to market expeditiously. There were large arejas in America which were roadless,, he added, but the arterial highways weqe as perfect as they -tioiieci, <the Custer Battlefield Highway as an example, which has opened up the “West' 7 in a manned thejt has been surprising, and" considered (that a similar arterial; road dnd would have a Hike effect. The Cutter Battlefield Highway has a of 1,500 miles and is one of the finest pieces’"NYfroad engineapTn~ America. .|i' ha.s only been completed about two yd?.rs, and last it.
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Franklin Times, Volume 9, Issue 752, 1 August 1922, Page 4
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170The Times. Published on Tuesday and Friday Afternoons. TUESDAY, AUGUST 1, 1922. OUR BAD ROADS. Franklin Times, Volume 9, Issue 752, 1 August 1922, Page 4
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