ROAD CONSTRUCTION.
USE OP CONCRETE. In a letter to the editor of the Jrr.'Age.'' Mr Joseph Dawson, the well-. » ;nown bridge-builder of' Mangamutu. Ijfahiatua,' says: ' i'ounty Council proposes to borrow ' 51.000 for the formation of about, Ce'iirty-six miles of tar-scaled roads. I. row nothing about these roads, butpretend to know something about """"joncrete roads. When a member of /he Eketahuna County Council, I •brought up the matter of. these roads, out the war interfered with the monoy market. I got the cost of maintaining about seven miles of road from TEketahuna to the Pahiatua County boundary. The cost of maintaining these seven miles for less than twelve . months was a few shillLigo under 1 £7OO. I told the Council I could put down a good concrete road for about £SOOO. The interest, at G per cent., would be only £4SO per year, and the maintenance men could be done away with, which would reduce the amount to. say, £3SO ,per year. ... I think a good concrete road could be put downfor about £l3 per chain, with a width • of 12ft. " .
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Otaki Mail, 15 January 1919, Page 3
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