The: Sheffield Corporation. has set a splendid example in road-making:
As we learn. from a letter to the Times by Mr. T. J. Clark, the average cost per mile of main- taining the Sheffield roads for the five. years before the War was £246. For the. four years since- the War the average cost has. been only £277 per mile in spite of the great increase in wages and the price of materials. Yet the daily weight of traffic: is, estimated to have increased by nearly 200 per cent. As Mr. William. Black remarked in a letter to the Times commenting on Mr. Clark's letter " There can be no question, that of all the possible means of using wisely and advantageously the labour now morally and, physically deteriorating that of road-making is the most obvious;.the mostmseful and the.most needed." He agrees with the Spectator that " the first man who comes along," can be employed upon this work with excellent results.
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