ROAD IMPROVEMENTS.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10686, 5 August 1912, Page 4

ROAD IMPROVEMENTS.

•For the next twelve months, until the Interiiatdounal. ■> lioad Congress meets in London on June 23. 'next year, tihiirty-Vthree of the; Governments of .the .world wtWI be giving their deep, consideration to the question of discovering the -best type'of road and the problem of controlling traffic. Ihe. iniinetaeen, subjectfe connected with locomotion in every civilised country o : the wcirWrr-except the United States—wiifil ibe to prodncte.a commom internatk>n*il isysteim of ordering-and providing for road traffic, 'it is\e3qpeoted" . ■:u'" ifhe' course of the year the United; States will join, the m&vement. one of. t'he?,th ! irty-tlire , e Governments inioludedrilai. the , conference, which embraces countries so ; small 'as Mon'tenegr,o and Jiayti, has the right to ouibmit one papelr ori' : esch 6f about I nineteen .su'bjecta connected with road problems, and the .mass",of, pamphlets tihus produced is circulated by the English [Road Board lin" French, and p'u s Sta tea' as ■ nlafcer ft c deliberations at next year'g congress. The usual, practice is for :e«oli u overnment to appoint a committee of expiate to conjsider the' questions that thus arias j and 'to 'formuke views -about them. |-The delegates-sent to-England; to sub-, j imo these., views t-3()()0. .'.'.■' ■;■■'■■■ ;•-■ '■■.■ : ■■