ROAD MATERIAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXII, Issue 53, 27 February 1912, Page 5

ROAD MATERIAL.

BROKEN SHINGLE OR CRUSHED METAL? USE OE SHINGLE RETAINED. Councillor Ward made a vigorous protest at last night’s meeting of the Borough Council against what he called the false economy in putting on the roads broken shingle in the place of crushed metal. He asked the councillors to look at Portia Street as a glaring example of what sort of surface shingle broken on the roads made. The small stones were loose, and were scattered over the street. Or Paget endorsed Cr Ward’s statement. He moved that in the opinion of the meeting the use of broken shingle for making and repairing roads was in their present state of formation inadvisable. In speaking to this motion Cr Paget referred to the cairns of stones, erected to his memory, he believed (laughter) to be found on the sides of some of the streets. They were full of round stones, which the men had raked from the surface of the roads. He considered that the widening of Broadway extension had been waste of money. He had asked one of the workmen to put his shovel into the dust of Broadway North, and it exposed round stones. Cr Morison said that he considered that shingle properly broken and then ,/ put on the roads was good material for repairing. As the Mayor and the overseer had pointed out, the stones in the gravel were to be broken in the heap and then spread. Cr Paget: If every stone is to be broken and to have angles it’s all right. If not, it isn’t. The Mayor said that if this motion were carried the Council were going to allow one of its best assets to run away down the rivor. Cr Sangster: We won’t pass it. Put it. Continuing, the Mayor said that in his opinion, whether stones were round or broken, hot weather and dry winds would cause the stones to loosen up. On the country roads, laid down wholly in broken metal, there were men continually at work raking up loose stones. Cr Paget: Not so bad as ours. The Mayor: I agree that the round stor.es must come up first. The motion was then put and lost.