MONEY FOR ROADS.
AUSTRALIA’S PROBLEM. SYDNEY, .Oct. 10.. “There are no ‘best’ roads,” said Mr; W. Calder (chairman of the County Roads Board, Victoria), who arrived by the Tahiti, after a seven months’ tour in Great Britain, America and Canada, where he has investigated the methods employed in the general construction of city and country roads. ‘ ‘The problem when constructing roads,” continued Mr. Calder, “is not only to provide for existing conditions, hut to arrange for future possibilities and requirements. “If Australia is going to forge ahead as she would wish, she will have to spend a lot more money on her roads. “I consider road-making one of the most important enterprises in the world to-day, and when I say that America in 1920 spent no less a sum than £12,000,000, and that her annual expenditure in the same direction now is something like one billion dollars, you 'can readily, grasp,” added Mr. Calder, “what importance the American attaches to the preparation of his roadways.”
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 28 October 1924, Page 5
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165MONEY FOR ROADS. Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 28 October 1924, Page 5
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