One of the comments on a paper read afa meeting of the Philosophical Society at Wellington on Wednesday by Br. Henderson was a remark by Mr P. v». Morgan on tho road-metal problem or Uhe Waikato. I>r. Henderson's report described large areas of basalt and other volcanic rocks in the Kawhia district, within a few miles of the Main Trunk Railway. Mr Morgan said the people of the Waikato were always short of good road-metal; yet there were mountains of it within sight of them, and surely •within reach. There was enough to supply the needs of the country for "hundreds of millions of years"—if roadmetal was likely to be used for so long as that.
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Press, Volume LVII, Issue 17224, 15 August 1921, Page 3
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