A Thrifty Plan.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XLVII, Issue 21, 22 May 1912, Page 6

A Thrifty Plan.

Attention is vailed in a recent Consular report to the thrifty plan followed in the province of Hanover, Germany,of planting the roadsides with fruit trees, the produce of which is sold at auction for the Benefit of the local government, the revenue thus obtained going a long way towards the upkeep of the roads. Hanover has some 7000 miles of country highways thus bordered. This year some of the roads yielded a revenue from this source at the rate of 595 dollars a mile. The fruit is protected by law and during the season of ripening the roads are patrolled by sharp-eyed watchmen on bicycles, so that little, if any, of the fruit is diverted from its proper destination.