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Clutha Leader, Volume XLIV, Issue 60, 5 February 1918, Page 8

Concrete will in 'future be the material used for paving Auckland City • streets. The Mayor stated to a Herald reporter that the city -council was satisfied that the cost of asphalt and woodblocks was 300 per cent, more than that of concrete. The two former were, therefore, things of the past so far as Auckland was concerned. Concrete paving would be used wherever it was practicable. This material was giving splendid results, particularly when coated with a special preparation, as in the case of Little Queen Street, where the paving had been laid for two years and proved effectual, in spite of very heavy traffic. A vigorous concrete roading policy would 'be instituted by the council immediately after . the war.