Remarkable Road Works Progress.

To-day Cook County has four hundred and fifty miles of roads. Since the inception of the Main Highways Board, and the rapid growth of motor transport, a greatly improved class of road has had to be constructed. With a view to being in line with the best methods of road-making, and road machinery, the County Engineer (Mr. J. J. Keane) was sent on a five-month visit to America, and the advantage gained by his experience is now being reaped by the ratepayers and general travelling public. Only a couple of years ago the ratepayers sanctioned a loan of £153,000, and this, together with substantial subsidies from the Main Highways Board and the Public Works Department, is being spent in bringing to fruition the project of the Cook County Council to make roads suitable for the present day highly improved methods of transport. Under this scheme, which it is hoped to complete in six years, the following permanent improvements have been made, viz.:

Main Highways—Widening and metalling, 21 miles 40 chains; metarling and bitumen, 6 miles 20 chains; total, 27 miles 60 chains.

County Main Roads—Widening and metalling, 18 miles.

County By-roads.—Widening and metalling 15 miles; total on all roads, 60 miles 60 chains.