COUNTRY ROAD NEEDS
CONCRETE STRIPS PLAN Concrete ‘ribbon road” tracks in • ountry highways where broad, costly concrete roads were not practicable or needed were suggested to the Returned Soldiers’ Rehabilitation Commission yesterday afternoon by Mr. John Mitchell, architect, who lias studied concrete construction extensively. ilo said a tine national activity for unemployed soldiers and other workI* could be evolved in such construction. Pairs of ribbons, which could be two feet wide and eight inches thick, could be laid down. There would be a space between the two pairs planted in buffalo grass. Long stretches could be laid down at relatively small oust and would be of immense service to transport and to pioneer settlers. At present in the country districts, bad roads seriously affected development.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 821, 15 November 1929, Page 6
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