BITUMEN ROADS.
INGLEWOOD COUNTY’S POLICY. Some interesting remarks on road construction were made by Mr. A. Corkill, chairman of the Inglewood County Council, on Tuesday. In mentioning that at the next meeting of the council he intended to move in the matter of raising a loan of about £20,000 for the layingdown of permanent roads within the county, he said he believed the day of ordinary tarred roads was done, and that a sbor time this method of construction would be replaced by bitumen. After a few years, he said/ the class of tar which was supplied to-day became absolutely perisheu and crumbled "away, leaving the metal under the surface to move and break up. Surfacing with tar only laid down a thm carpet on top of the road. Bitumen, on the other hand, did not perish, but retained its life for many years. Indeed, he had heard of a case in Egypt where a bitumen road was still “alive after a hundred years. He believed that at last an ideal roadmaking material hud been discovered, and he was more than glad that his council had adopted this method of roadmaking. So much was taken out of the tar in these days that it was of little use for roadmaking.
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Taranaki Daily News, 9 November 1922, Page 5
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210BITUMEN ROADS. Taranaki Daily News, 9 November 1922, Page 5
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