THE DUST NUISANCE.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 32, 28 January 1908, Page 3

THE DUST NUISANCE.

PETROLEUM AS A PREVENTIVE. At the Borough Council meeting last night ilr. A. H. Kendall, borough engineer, reported as follows:—I bog to further report, in accordance with a previous instruction, on the advisability of taking a tost of the use of petroleum on the streets for the purpose of keeping down the dust. Other mediums have bean found to give satisfaction in this direction. At the time T reported on petroleum I was unfortunately too busy to further report, as [ wished, on those methods that may 1* employed in com! batting this perennial nui-anoo and danger to public health during dry weather The dust preventative which at the present time finds most favor is tar, and it 9 superiority as a binding medium is only now being recognised <n the larger Home centres, w |,ile most otlioi preparations are only regarded as palli i atives of the evil. Owing to the nsitur* ' of tar and the difficulty which is oxperi ( onoed in endeavoring to obtain a fre. 1 flow over the surface of a road m tin

i form of a sptajv fecial contrivances I have been made to surmount 'hose difficulties, and so as to enable the tar to lie spread evenly over the surface of contrivances is a French invention, which i c.nsists of a reservoir for the tar. and i .} discharge pipe- somewhat similar to the spreader of an ordinary water-cart -lor di-tril.nting hot tar (about 200F.1 on the surface of the road. This is followed up and spread in an oven manner bv means of automatic brooms att .ched to the cart, the (ar Iwing allow- . I ,d to I* al.-orl.ed by the road as long . \ ;,< possible before sand or other sprink- . ling material is applied. The cost of tarring would with such a machine v.-ork nut at winie)hingl like nd per ; -mare yard. or. if done by hand labor. 1 at lo.i-i .".0 per cent, greater cost, nl- ; w.iv- in-istins on u-iii" refined tar of ~ he'bo-t niialitv with the light oils and j. I v.at-r boibd out of H before u-e. but „ not |o s„ch an evlYnl ;l „ („ ,„nko the .ar biitlle. flnlv 11..- r- road- which are true .'n ab-.-nn t. eanibor and face { ! -hould be irei.led.

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