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rest of the country would be an assurance of permanent prosperity for South Wales, of incalculable value to the" rest of the country, said Mr. Christopher Brunner, at Cardiff, on Monday.
Speaking at a luncheon in connection with the opening of the roads exhibition organized by the British Road Federation, he said that on an economic basis the provision of new and better roads could be shown to produce an annual saving of Vehicle operating costs, of £3,274,000, compared with an annual cost of financing the scheme of £2,196,000. The cost of what amounted to a life-line for the area could not be reduced\ to pounds, shillings and pence.
Competitors in overseas markets were modernizing their equipment, he said, and roads, as an integral part of the industrial equipment of the country, must not be neglected in Britain's" programm'a of modernization. The development. of South' Wales roads was necessary for national survival, and the scheme for their development was a test case which would show whether, as a deritocracy, this country still had the will to live.