pie had quite recently acquired many electric appliances and had become dependent on electricity. When it was suddenly cut off, they were forced to go back to former ways of doing things. This was made even more inconvenient if they had disposed of gas-powered washers, irons, lamps or other equipment they had used prior to converting to electricity. Highways From the report of Division Engineer for , William H. MacDougall , December 31, 1935: The nine Power Graders operating in the County, widened and improved 154 miles of road.. ..some of the roads, or parts of them, included , Bideford ; , Mt. Pleasant; ; and .... These machines were also used to open ijo chains of tap drains through fields adjoining the road. The machines were also used for stumping, and for lessening grades and making fills by dragging clay off the hills into the hollows. During the season of 1935, there were 24,300 tons of shore and pit gravel placed on the roads in various sections of , covering a dis¬ tance of 63 3/4 miles surfaced. This gravel was all local Island material, taken from shores and pits. The pit gravel was excavated from pits, includ¬ ing Murphy's, East Bideford ; Ramsay's, ; Williams's, Tyne Valley ; and McLean's and McArthur's, ....The gravel pit at Ramsay's, , was cleaned off and 34 cars of gravel were exca¬ vated from it and shipped from McNeill's Mills and Stations to points in the eastern part of this County, and to the other Counties where no gravel was available. Stretches of road surfaced with gravel include: Northam , % mile; Tyne Valley , % mile; , fy mile; , 5/g mile; Bideford , 3/4 mile; and , 7/2 mile. From report of William H. MacDougall , County Engineer. December 31, 1940: New purchases of snow plows made two available for use in , and as a result the paved roads were kept open for wheeled traffic as long as it was deemed prudent to do so. To help lighten the work of the plows by reducing the number of heavy drifts, 19,000 lineal feet of snow fence was erected in the worst places for drifts along the paved highway. In the early spring, ditches were cut through the snow and ice, to prevent the freshet water from washing away the shoulders of the road. Other work done towards maintaining the paved highway, consisted of Chapter Four ~ Moving On 85