TAR IN ROADMAKING.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVII, Issue 91, 17 December 1913, Page 2

TAR IN ROADMAKING.

AN ELTHAM EXPERIMENT. The Blthani County Engineer (.Mr F. Basham) at the County Council meeting of Saturday, reported as /01lows : On the. northern portion of the Mountain road, 1 have tried a non method, i\ hich appears to be far ahead of the ordinary tar spraying. The first portion of the road treated, some 30 chains, lias been done a mohth and it is possible to obtain some fair idea how the road is affected by traffic. Ihe total distance treated is 70 chains, and clie cost was 26s per chain. The inater,al used is a tar compound made in the council’s yard at a total cost of TJd )G i- gallon, and is the result of experiments carried out by me during the >ast year. For the purpose of distinction and reference 1 have called it ■llostar” and am registering that mine and the formula. The average epth of the coat is from to lin. nd it is silent, resilient, and nonlippory. in my opinion it is veil inch ahead of the Ordinary coat of ar and sand aw dis undoubtedly the icst value of any work of' this nature et done' in the County. During the ast week seven)! engineers from other daces have inspected the road, and leir opinion is that the ‘work one is the best value for the money fat'they'have seen.- I strongly'urge '•’ie Council toMufepect 'this piece of >ad before going on with any moie ir spraying. Mr Basham sfiifl it was-a preparation f his own. He had' taken the idea roni that used by the Essex County ouhcil, England, ahd having studied' hat" was in use there had prepared,. Compound which he thought would rove most 'successful, and the result ■■ ad been equal to all his expectations, le had already' iieff#Approached by free other local bodies with requests > supply them with the" “Restar” and , was probable'thaTh company would ! a formed to manufacture it, but the I llthani County would be safeguarded. 1 [ e had had the- preparation registered » nder the name of “Restar.” It was ie best thing he had yet seen and was : itisfied that there would be a large ?mand for it.

The proposed visit of inspection was ■nde in the afternoon; the whole of he CoumiV the., trip to the tretch of road on the Mountain road, ear "Xgae.ro, .j}V motor car. The, mptpMs , all expressed very The members all expressed every itisfaction < with the- appearance and ■mdiitibn lof • the- road up, (to.' thfcrpre-

intv hut of ifourse, the; chief, point, j; I the welnihg powers lO.fl itbe new aferiaJ ) 1 cauhohly he prpyjed by- time, si iTlie. that ,t ( he,Council ,deioddd Ta pftti down a further fly* "»i les s imr neixpßiiLmental purposes,.|d<h n ffi the hole of the Eltham roFdsituated (ini he Kaponga riding.