The Archive · 1922

The Good Roads Movement

Success of the Campaign for Funds The campaign of the Good Roads Movement of China for a fund of LIH. $30,000 has been a tremendous success, Already $33,000 have been collected and all the committees have not yet reported.

The Good Roads Movement of China will shortly be thoroughly reorganized on a more efficient basis so that it can assist in the building of good roads throughout China, but more particularly in the district between Shanghai and Nanking and Shanghai and Hangchow. Lectures and engineers will be engaged to educate the people to favour good roads and to assist companies which have been organized_to build them.

It is hoped that several returned students who are making a speciality of road engineering colleges abroad will be able to give their full time to this work when they return to China-At a meeting of the Committee of the Good Roads Movement. on Wednesday Mr. C. R. Burkill was elected Vice-President.

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