MODERN HIGHWAYS.

Press, Volume LXI, Issue 18462, 17 August 1925, Page 7

MODERN HIGHWAYS.

lecture to students. On Saturday evening, before an ordinary general meeting of the Canterbuz? College Engineering Society, Mr A. R. M.1.C.E.1., the City Engineer, gave a, papei on "Modern Highways." . Mr Gaiiraitli statedi that the primary ator in the'remarkable advance made in road construction in the past thirty yeais, w a „„„ ,o . k .<■' polled road vehicle. W , j ol . Jiorsemacadam road w *? go °, vent of motor-can drawn vehicles, the a . u e tter. Tile and lorries demanded s°metb f - road main factors. determining the, of to be adopted were: lo _ icfti "nature traffic, tl» physical and =« o1 g clcorolog i ca i value of the .mfoima tion testing, outweighing the small c val j ous tests. He described and classified e The methods of road constiucl Uv numerous, the moat 1 1^ P m ; no us concrete, treated, asphaltic, and Llt ""j in ' ds The wooden blocks, and ruM) cons t,uction characteristics and methods Tho widt b of were described in each case. loads was, a very varying present tendency was to conclumuch wider than in the P aß * - , onßt,rucsion, Mr Galbraith .fted construe^ tion was rapidly becoming an highway demanding the services o .; Unfengmeer. In many pntrineerin'' was versities a chair of highway cn a ° Co Sr°Ga!braith > was accorded a of thanks for his instructive pap • the visitors present were CounaUors Aschman, C. Carr, andJ. D» . H. . Holland, and Mr Parker, an Ame road engineer.