GOOD ROADS MOVEMENT.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 1930, 23 January 1919, Page 3

GOOD ROADS MOVEMENT.

The Auckland people are busying themselves with a good-roads movement. The Taranaki people have already demonstrated Hie advantages of hard, clean t borough fa res as an aid to rural development. Travellers are unanimous in their praise of Hie enterprise of our northern neighbours. Why is it that in a, rich community like this we am conical to go along from year to year with Hu: old unsatisfactory Avasleful method of mending and patching? There arc thousands of motor-driven vehicles using the local roads, and the wear and (oar is increasing at such a rate that our local bodies are faced with a serious problem. Would it not be well for somebody to take Hie initiative and institute a good roads movement in this community.’ One or two enlightened men have tried to give us a lead in the mailer, lad like* all reformers (hey have met with scant encouragement*, and have indeed reaped a certain measure of illmerited opprobrium. This is r, question which Avill have to be faced sooner or later. Would it not be AveJl for the more progressive spirits to eoriA’cnc a conference of local bodies and see wliaf can be done in Hie way of making a start? —Palmerston Times.