King Country Chronicle Wednesday, October 25, 1911. DUSTLESS ROADS.

King Country Chronicle, Volume V, Issue 407, 25 October 1911, Page 5

King Country Chronicle Wednesday, October 25, 1911. DUSTLESS ROADS.

.©. The decision of Newmarket Borough Council to accept tenders from a British company to lay the principal roads with bituminous metal as described on page 6, seems to offer to us in Te Kuiti the very solution of our dust problem which is wanted at the present time. The method adopted differs very materially from the tarred - metal processes which have been experimentally tried in Hamilton and other towns. It involves the Use of refined tar, to which is added a bituminous substance, giving a metalbound macadam road which 33 dustless, mudless, silent, durable and nonslipping. It sounds almost too good to be true. Applying such a system to the section of Rora street between King street and the breastwork at the south end, and including King street, Sheridan street and Taupiri street, the contract price of two shillings a square yard could easily be worked out, and would probably not exceed £IOOO, so far a3 the final tarred-maca-dam work is concerned, leaving the borough authorities to do the preliminary work of preparing the bed. Even on the restricted area between King street and the south end of Rora street such an ideal road-bed would lead to paeans of praise for the council that adopts it. The losses caused every summer to drapers and others in the main street of the town through the dust nuisance are beyond ordinary calculation. If fine pumice dust gets into the work of delicate machines and instruments it depreciates their value and throws them out of gear quicker than actual ill-usage. Dusting, in our leading stores, is not a nightmare, {but an ever-present daily trouble. tWe .commend the example of NewTmark«f; to the attention of the Borough Council, and suggest that an early opportunity be taken to see the work being done and obtain the promise that work in this town shall follow. Once the water and drainage pip«s are down it should be passible to make an early start upon the abolition of the dust nuisance.