N.Z. Roads Praised
(N.Z. Press Association) AUCKLAND, Oct. 15. Australia and New Zealand built the most economical asphalt roads in the world, a leading North American asphalt technologist, said in Auckland today. He is Dr N. W. McLeod, asphalt consultant in Toronto for Imperial Oil Ltd of New Jersey and consultant to the Canadian Transport Department for airport pavements. Dr McLeod, who will spend five weeks in New Zealand lecturing for the Institution of Engineers under the W. A.
Stevenson Travel Award for 1967, said New Zealand and Australian engineers had mastered the art of surface dressing with asphalt. “I would put them at the top of the class,” he said. “I have been to most countries and I haven’t seen anything to beat the excellent quality of the surface dressing method I have seen here.” But as in other countries where traffic had become heavy, he said, New Zealand would soon have to use the more expensive “hot mix” method which gave a much thicker surface.
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Press, Volume CVII, Issue 31501, 16 October 1967, Page 24
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