RUBBER ROADWAYS
NO NOTABLE RESULTS. Efforts to develop the use of ruhber as a road surfacing material have not yet achieved any notable results; according to the statement made by the chairman • at the sixteenth annnal meeting of the Rubber Roadways, Limited, a company formed to assist in tbe application of rubber to this use. He was able to claim only the construction of eleven demonstration areas of various types of rubber roadways, comprising in the aggregate 4200 square yards, in London, Edinhurgh, Glasgow; Newcastle, Bristol, Rotterdam, Paris and Singapore. However, he also qUoted various recomm,endations hy engineers and other evidence of increasing interest in the possihilities of rubber pavements. As an instance of the latter, he mentioned that oceupiers of preniises in Lombard Street — proverbially paved with gold — had petitioned the city corporation to snrface that street with ruhber*, and had offered to contribute a snbstantial sum towards the cost, Realisi'ng the importance of developing new uses for large quantities of rubber, the council of the growefs' association has undertakeh to provide nearly 24,000 tons of crude rUbher at specl'al prices during the next.five years to encourage manufacturers to embark upon large scale pr'oduction of ruhber road niaterials.
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Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 1, Issue 134, 29 January 1932, Page 7
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