METALLING OF ROADS

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXI, Issue 21716, 3 February 1934, Page 9

METALLING OF ROADS

o MINISTER'S OBJECTIVE MANY MEN NOW AT WORK . [BV TELEGItAI'H —PRESS ASSOCIATION*] OAMABTT. Friday When a deputation from the Waitaki County Council met the Minister of Public Works, the Hon. J. Bitchener, at Kurow yesterday, the Minister briefly outlined his roading policy. He said more men were now engaged on road metalling than ever before in the history of the Dominion. Some districts were badly in need of better roads. He had, he said, been in a district only oniS and a-half miles from Auckland where the main road was not even metalled, and motorists actually had to use chains in wet weather. The district was not a newlysettled one. (top resident had been there for 40 years, and there was not a metalled road Within 12 miles of his homestead. ' Mr. Bitchener said he had been ; chaffed because he was a South ! Islander and was spending so much in the North Island. That expenditure, however, was entirely warranted. His great object was to. try to get metalled roads to people's homes, if possible. Much had been said about "tourist roads," hut he considered New Zealand people were the ones the Government should look after first. . >