GOOD ARTERIAL ROADS.
NORTH ISLAND HIGHWAYS. TARANAKI TO AUCKLAND. The need for the improvement of the arterial roads of the Dominion was mentioned by the Prime Minister the other day. Good arterial roads, he said, were absolutely essential to the development of the country. The country roads must be made good enough for motor traffic if people were to be attracted to country life. Lots of these roads were hardly fit for bullock traction, at present. Mr. Massey added that he had legislation in hand designed to secure the improvement of the arterial roads. He hoped to be able to place it before Parliament during the coming session. When the completion of arterial roads made it possible for motor cars to run from Auckland to Wellington and from Taranaki to Auckland, then the Government would be able to fall back upon the roads of less importance. He did not believe that good roads would ever interfere with railway traffic. They would bring traffic to the railways, not take it away from them.
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Taranaki Daily News, 9 March 1920, Page 6
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172GOOD ARTERIAL ROADS. Taranaki Daily News, 9 March 1920, Page 6
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