Bad Roads Imperil Milk Supplies
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AT a meeting of Cardiganshire Main Roads Committee, reference was made to the great growth of milk collection by lorries in the county, and to the complaints by farmers and hauliers of the lack of facilities for this traffic caused by the unsuitability of secondclass roads.
It was said that farmers had difficulty in carrying the milk to the collecting points, in time. It was suggested that better second-class roads would enable additional collecting points to be established off the main highways.
The clerk said that if the county council allowed these milk-collection stands to be set up without Sanction, the owners would acquire a prescriptive right lo the sites and could not be dispossessed. It was decided to consider improving certain roads and to allow collection stands to be placed at roadsides only under permits.
The Cardiganshire branch of the National Farmers Union, at its January meeting, discussed the same question, and decided to ask the N.F.U. National Executive to press on the Government the need for greater grants for second clasS roads in rural counties.
The whole aspect of second-class roads was contended to have been altered by he greater dependence of farmers on road transport. The promising development of organized milk collection by road was stated to be imperilled by tardy and small grants for rural highways.
The position was also fully discussed at a recent meeting of Carmarthen County Council.