§ Colonel MILDMAYasked the Minister of Transport whether, in view of the very many complaints from agriculturalists and others as to the number of serious accidents to farm-stock and to horses due to the slippery surface of tar-sprayed roads, his Department is itself making experiments with a view to the provision of a surface affording a firmer foothold or is instigating local authorities to experiment in that direction?
§ Sir E. GEDDESAs a result of the recommendations of an expert Committee, appointed at my request by the County Surveyors' Society to consider the question of slippery roads, experiments with three different classes of road surfaces are to be carried out in the areas of the counties of Worcestershire, Southampton and the North Riding of Yorkshire. Half the cost of these experiments is to be borne by the Road Fund. Experiments are also being carried out in various counties with special devises in the shoeing of horses. The Farmers' Union and the Worshipful Company of Farriers, as well as the Road Fund, are contributing towards the cost, of these shoeing experiments.