ROAD CONGRESS.

Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 20026, 6 September 1930, Page 5

ROAD CONGRESS.

GATHERING AT WASHINGTON. TWO NEW ZEALAND REPRESENTATIVES. It is estimated that about two thousand delegates will attend the International Road Congress*, to be opened at Washington D.C., on October 6th, by President Hoover. This mar be taken as an indication of the important place the road-making industry occupies in civilised communities. The previous international congress was held at Milan, Italy, in 192(i.

New Zealand will be represented by at least two delegates. Mr A. Tyndall. engineer to the Main Highways Board, who will officially represent the New Zealand Government, left by tEe Aorangi a week or so ago, and Mr A. Donald Paterson. managing director of British Pavements, Ltd., Christchurch. leaves this evening to join the Makura, which is to sail for San Francisco from Wellington on Tuesday. In addition to letters from the Prime Minister (the Hon. G. W. Forbes), and from the New Zealand Society of Civil Engineers, Mr Paterson also bears letters from Mr A. E. Ansell. M.P.. president of the South Island Motor Union, in which Mr Ansell states that Mr Paterson enjoys the confidence of the motor associations and local bodies of the Dominion.

In addition to the proceedings before the congress, which will extend from October 6th to 11th. several tours have been arranged. The most important is that which will extend from October 12th to October 28th and which will give the delegates an opportunity of inspecting completed highways and highways under construction in the States of Pennsylvania, Ohio. Michigan, and also in Ontario, Canada. In the course of this tour ♦he delegates will visit the Ford motor works at Detroit, and also the works of General Motors.

In conjunction with the congress an international exhibition of roadtnakin? plant will he held, which will be of considerable interest to all concerned with modern road making.