CEMENT ROADS

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LIV, Issue LIV, 16 October 1920, Page 8

CEMENT ROADS

OALIORNIA’E EXAMPLE

An In torn? ting statement with rerrnnl i,o the progress of California was made hv ,Sir' John Burns, of Messrs Burns, Philp and Co., in the course of an interview with a. N.Z. Times repre• sen la five. “.My daughter and I stayed about six weeks in California/' stated Sir John Burns, “and we were much imfh the marvellous progress being made there. There is no doubt that irrigation In Southern California has done a. great deal for that State ; and the export of tinned fruits and other products from California now is something enormous. According ..o statistics' they have considerably over a million motor-ears now registered in the Stale, which comes to about a ear for every six of the population—men, women, and children. This is some(liinrir remarkable : but the beautiful roads ibev have there largely account for it. They have something like 6000 miles of what is known as ‘highway,' cement concreted roads, and this is a great Inducement to the whole of the neople to own motor-cars, as they have so manv facilities afforded them. All over the State them arc stations where ei] Is stored and can be pumped into tho troior-oM's In o- seconds“ these bigbwnva are taking a great deal of goods and passenger traffic c from tbe'railwavs. Of course the railways ore still used to a very largo extent, N'-r die tvansnortnfcion throughout the whole of California is exceptional owing in these marvellous _ roads, which fi■,\-r> been made and which have cost the State something like 100 million dollars f.£20.000.000) to construct. My daughter and I travelled over a thousand miles on these highways, and were surprised and interested at the wonderful Improvement flies© great roads have made.” , .