MAIN ARTERIAL ROADS.

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 9, Issue 535, 28 May 1920, Page 2

MAIN ARTERIAL ROADS.

Like mosit of our contemporaLi. s wc have advocated good main rev'.s so consistently that we have soii.ctimes thought our readers may ha a wondered whejther we were intere; : - ed in any other topic. But foi >t long time" it seemed as though, in i - gard to roads, the community v.v.s doomed to suffer everlasting •torment, like the unfortunate victims in Dav te's Inferno, getting into no bet:, r environment for all their striving . But organisation tells every tins', and, thanks largely to the Go- I Roads Association created by loc .1 bodies, and the wisdom of the Prime Minister in appointing a man with ideas as Minister for Public VVorl .-, there is some tangible evidence :f

progress. The personnel of the Roy 1 Commission appointed to investigate the problem inspires confidenc •. There is Mr. William Stonham Shoi t, 1.5.0., late Under-Secretary for Public Works; Mr. Ashley John Huntiv, M.1.C.E.. the well-known civil engineer; Cr Claud Motion, chairman of the Franklin County Council: and Cr Alexander David Bell, chairman < f the Manukau County Council. All these are practical men, and kno.v from long experience the proble.n they have to solve. The main items they have to give opinions on are:- - (I) The route of main roads; (2) the class of road construction; (3) estimated cost; (4) question of local bodies' contribution for construction, reconstruction, or maintenance; (f>) legislation required. It is a huge subject, and one that Will be difficult to determine, but the job must be done,

and we believe the right men have been appointed to do it. The community will fervently wish them such success that the results of their findings will be put into operatkn not only in the Auckland Province, hut throughout the Dominion.