GOOD ROADS

Waikato Independent, Volume XIX, Issue 2067, 13 June 1918, Page 5

GOOD ROADS

A MATTER FOR LOCAL BODIES,

The Good Roads question bids fair to become a matter of national importance in New Zealand. The Auckland branch of the Good Roads Association has lately been doing much propaganda work, ami Mr Hemmlngway’s lectures have attracted a great deal of attention. The Cambridge Chamber of Commerce at its Tuesday night’s meeting discussed the matter of forming a local branch, and it is hoped to call a public meeting shortly and invito Mr. Hcmmingway to come down again to lecture. But it is hoped that if this is done, members of Road Boards, and local bodies generally will be more fully alive to the importance of the matter than they were at the time of Mr Hcmmingway’s last visit. The question of good roads is so important, and so vitally affects the welfare of country districts, that it cannot be too strongly urged on every settler who uses the roads to take an active interest in the question. In view of the expected development of all agriculture after the war, and the greatly increased traffic which must make use of our highways, it is evident that something more permanent i» the way of roadmaking will have to be entertained. Good roads then moan more prosperity for all, more comfort and less cost in travelling and hauling. From whichever point of view the subject is looked at or discussed, the importance of good roads is beyond question. It means so much to the development of agriculture that for this purpose alone the matter is a vital one. When the Chamber of Commerce arranges for the proposed public meeting, it is to be hoped that every settler who possibly can will make a special point of being present.