BITUMEN ROADS.
VIEWS OF HIGHWAYS BOARD
NO SPECIAL PREFERENCE
(Bt Telogrnph.—Own Correspondent.)
ARAPL'NI. Wedncsdav,
A stateniont appeared in tlic Tross yesterday from wliieh it might he inferred that the Main Highways Board ha* announced a general preference for bitumen as a road-surfacing material. The hoard wishes officially to make clear to the public that it has no such preference. Its opinion is that perfectly good roads can be built of several classes of material. The choice of material in each particular work is decided after thorough consideration of the traffic to be served, the finances available, the material of the foundations, and other physical conditions.
The board's objective in every case is to build such a class of road as will furnish a maximum of service to the community. Another inference that the board is prejudiced against Portland cement concrete as a paving material may best be answered by the statement that the board has utlder construction at present approximately 20 miles of concrete pavement in different parts of the Dominion, towards the cost of which the board is finding the substantial share of 7-~> per cent.
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Auckland Star, Issue 38, 14 February 1929, Page 21
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