BETTER ROADS PROMISED BY NEW MINISTER.
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"We need better roads, and I shall do my best to see that they are provided and that existing roads are made better," stated Mr. Leslie Burgin, the new Minister of Transport, in a telegram to the Chief Constables' Association, read at its annual banquet, in Harrogate, on Thursday of last week.
" But still more do we need better road users," added the Minister. " The raising of the general standard of care in the use of the roads will have to depend very largely on the police, and I realise what demands it will make on them."
ID his presidential. address, Mr. Thomas Rawson, Chief Constable of Bradford, referred to the mistaken view that the enforcement of the motoring laws was an extraneous duty of the police and suggested an organization of specialized personnel to deal with traffic matters.