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Feilding Star, Volume V, Issue 59, 20 May 1884, Page 3

Fair fiSfefces^.'adW^tlpftfttsHo liave been achieved in London in paving tho«'ift^^' J -^^' ; * < * !^o^v 7?he''<S6nstruction of tin*' Vftrdtia'vi^i "lSl'/tfu eaborflte pWcess. ; FJ^c.,% t jbed is nude of .grjivett. or ( abput".\a.ifo9| in 2^tli. ( >n^ tbp" gravel' . is , pljaced a layer of concrete. -.Above, the coucEeie is laid down » floor .of planking-1 ; This tilanlnrrg^B thrn envwed with a layer of tarred felt, and 'ori- This the wooden blocks of parallel ogrVi.m >hape are laid witfrgft^t precision, wi-b th^ tarred felting between eacli row of blocks When the roadway is .laid tar is poured into the interstices; and a temporary eating of .fine grrivel is spread >-n the Mirfuce to - ' be - Worked down au«l embedded ir the ' tar. A roadway tlniH paved has fla^ticity combined with "cohesion, it is .delightully silent in dry weather, and in quite -wet, weather . horses get a satisfactory tread on it. 'It is easy to keep clean, and generates a Tuiniraum of dust. Sydney roadways are being formed on the above plan, though very costly.