MAKING ROADS BEAUTIFUL.

Press, Volume LXIX, Issue 20898, 4 July 1933, Page 13

MAKING ROADS BEAUTIFUL.

TO Tity. EDITOR OF THE PHESS. Sir,—l read with very great pleasure and approval in "The Press" last Thursday the excellent suggestion of Mr Owen on beautifying our main roads. It. appeals to me as one of the bof-'l. suggestions yet made for the utilisation of our surplus labour. Here, right to our hand, is a work waiting to be undertaken, altogether free from that element of uselessness which has deadened the souls of workless men for two or three years past, providing in its place a creative work of use and beauty, meeting a present urgent need, and bearing a far-off interest of delight for generations to come. What has been done so effectively in other countries may well be begun here. What a difference the planting of suitable trees under expert direction would make to our long, monotonous stretches of Canterbury roads, which at present are a weariness to flesh and spirit, and what a boon to motorists. Work has to be found for unemployed men; why not a stimulating work that would transform the countryside and turn a period of dull depression into a valuable asset? "A thing of beauty is a joy for ever."—Yours, etc., TREE LOVER. July 3, 1933.