POLISH ROADS.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXIX, Issue LXIX, 24 May 1915, Page 2

POLISH ROADS.

When the traveller crosses into Russian Poland from Prussian Poland he finds an immediate change for the worse. To drive five miles in a flat country took two hours, and this was the road: Immensely wide, not bordered by hedges^ but sunk by its own traffic far below the level of the fields, it consisted of black and slippery mud four or five ieet deep, hollows, filled with water, and steep ridges that slanted across the way diagonally. It is the Russian Government who are responsible for the upkeep of the roads, and nothing is ever uone. No doubt it would be a difficult thing v to repair them, where there is no stone, but the people pay a heavy road tax, and the money goes to Petrograd, and there is an end of it.