Bad State Of Tong An
p. 39 · Read in the full issue
Roads.
From Our Own Correspondent.
Nukualofa, May 2.
Public attention is being forcibly drawn by the state of the roads to the primitive methods adopted by the Pub lic Works Department of Tonga for road maintenance.
The singularly foolish idea that a coating of tar and sand will renovate a pot-holey road is ludicrous. The stone-crushing plants have been closed down during the last year, no new roads have been made and practically no re-metalling of the existing worn out roads has been done.
The inevitable result is that the l oads are rapidly deteriorating and a coating of sand and tar is absolutely useless.