VISITOR’S TRIBUTE TO N.Z. ROADS.
“I am both surprised and impressed by the high standard of your roads,” said Air R. J. Archer, vicepresident and general manager of the John N. 'Willy® Export Corporation. “In such a" young country as New Zealand,” lie remarked, “the plentitude of motorists is largely assisting development. Motorists are by no means silent people. Roads, and good roads, come into '■dyeing generally 7 because motorists demand them rather than do good roads create motorists. The bad roads of any country disappear with the horse and buggy, and good roads come with the motor car. Motorists consequently play a large part in the successful development of a country such as New Zealand.”
Asked his impressions on New Zealand generally.'Mr Archer said that the number of ears on the road in such a young country had struck him as a sign of great prosperity. He was. of course, conversant with the statistical figures, hut he remarked that “seeing is believing.”
Mr Archer, whose visit to New Zealand is principally for the purpose of studying lornl conditions, proposes making a hurried tour of both islands, leaving from Auckland about- the end of this month.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 2 March 1929, Page 13
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