CORRESPONDENCE.

Taranaki Daily News, 16 November 1921, Page 2

CORRESPONDENCE.

METHOD OF ROAD MAKING. (To the Editor.) Sir,—l see the Taranaki County is about to start another length of tar-sealed road. Well, Sir, I think it is time they altered their •method of putting down a tar-sealed road. Look at the first piece that was put down tweelve months ago. It will soon want renewing. There are places not more than 10ft. left, and the sides are wearing away fast every day. The road is too narrow for a main road. It should be 20 feet wide. It should be counter sunk Ift. in the solid, this being backed up with loose earth. It is no good keeping the metal down or having too much camber on a tar-sealed road. It only wants a very little on the hills. The horses cannot stand up on it, less so the milk cart horses with a heavy load behind them. No wonder our rates are soaring high. It is time we lad a change or a different method of road making, one that will last for 30 years at least. Then the rates will pay the interest and principal off in 30 years. Take the next two miles that are to be tar-sealed, past the Bell Block factory, with all the milk carted every day and our ordinary traffic still increasing, what good is our present tin-pot road to carry all the traffic? No, we want wider metal roads to last and a different method of putting them down. I don’t mean to say that it is only the Taranaki County to blame, for others have something to learn respecting the making of permanent roads.— I am, etc., Bell Block, November 12.