USELESS KERBSTONES [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR, — May I,
through your columns, protest against the wicked waste of public money which is going on by the laying down of kerbs along hundreds of miles of our country roads ? These kerbs are, as a rule, useless and always more or less dangerous. - Already one death has resulted from a collision with these useless and dangerous projections. If it be argued that they are necessary to prevent the road from creeping it may be replied that for scores of miles one can see solid embankments being cut away before these kerbs can be laid down, though it may be granted that in some few places where the roadsides are low and marshy the kerbs are useful.
If the reason for this generally useless expenditure is that the Road Fund has to be spent and employment is provided ,then it would be well if the Fund were again raided and the money spent on objects more useful and less dangerous—such reafforestation.—I am, Sir, &e.,
NEWARK.
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