ROADS EXPENDITURE.
HUGE SUMS IN AMERICA. Per Press Association. AUCKLAND, Aug. 6. One million dollars a day is being expended by the Federal Government in the United States, according . to Major W. T. B. McCormack, chairman of the County Roads Board, Victoria, who is returning to Australia by the Monterey. “It is the greatest road programme undertaken anywhere in tho world,” he said, adding that lie travelled 10,000 miles by road and rail in America. In the 11 western States 3,000,000 dollars was being spent on traffic survey. Great attention was being given throughout America to the installation of “electric eyes” to record automatically the passage of traffic. There was 28,000,000 cars in the United States. He greatly admired tho work of the engineers, who were tackling in an exhaustive manner every form of traffic problem.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 212, 7 August 1937, Page 2
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