GOOD ROADS.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXIII, Issue 4365, 13 January 1922, Page 2

GOOD ROADS.

ARE THEY A LUXURY? We have had it said that good roads are a luxury. Forget it! Tour- r ist traffic is directly affected by poor roading. No traveller wants wet and muddy footwear. In pities he does not care much about bumping around over pavements recovering from an ' attack of economic small-pox. No motor tourist, that most profitable of all land-cruisers, desires- to ext plpre a country that cares nothing about the condition of its arteries of communication. Good rpads should always lead in point of economic importance. Fine national highways can be well paid for from enhanced incomes brought about by a broad and modern policy of! tourist encouragement. Good roads are the greatest advertisement in existence. Poor roads in any civilised country boasting modern government are a confession of national slovenliness, politl--cal chicanery, 'or provincial jealousy transcendent to the public good. No country can get heavy tourist traffic without a good roads policy based on direct annual fixed taxation. Such is ■ the opinion of Mr Marshall Mays, American Vice-Consul, as expressed at. a meeting of the Auckland Advertising Club recently.