[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Lord Montagu has decisively
answered Mr. Churchill's proposed attack upon the Road Fund by pointing out that, far from having a surplus, it is quite clear that the Road Fund would have a deficit if the road works that are urgently:- wanted were earned out.
Lord Montagu mentions the urgent needs of rural roads—, and on this he understated rather than overstated the case--; but we in the HOInC ($1.1ntieg are well aware_ hat London has- her special needs, such as the removal of Billingsgate and.: CoVent Garden inarketg to -somewhere in outer London and the construction of more roads to London Docks, that will tax the Road Fund to its last farthing. Expenditure on these projects is true. national economy.
To rob the Road Fund will not save the taxpayer, but would be to perpetuate waste for which, sooner or later, the taxpayer will have to pay.—I am, Sir, &c., Chapel Lane, Snuzliftelds, Surrey. FREDERICK WENMAN.
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