NAILS ON ROAD
REMARKABLE COLLECTION BY MOTOR MAGNET. FIFTY POUNDS FROM W.F.C.A. PARKING AREA. Scattered over the W.F.C.A. parking area in Chapel Street this morning were 501bs of nails, bolts, screws, pieces of iron, steel and other odds and end that were liable to cause punctures in motor-car tyres. In half an hour or so, all this material was collected by means of the Public Works Department' motor magnet, which is used on roads throughout New Zealand. The motor magnet is operated while the vehicle is travelling at a speed of about eight miles an hour. In the course of a year, during which about 12,000 miles are covered, about nine tons of debris is collected. .
In Hastings recently on 56 miles of borough streets, the result was 4J cwt and on a seven-mile Am from the Masterton Borough boundary to the Te Whiti Settlement Road, working on both shoulders of the highway, about 301 b was collected. Masterion borough streets are receiving attention this afternoon.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 5 October 1939, Page 6
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166NAILS ON ROAD Wairarapa Times-Age, 5 October 1939, Page 6
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