The most up-to-date method of tarsealing a road was seen in operation at Bayswater the other day when the Auckland Gas Company completed its contract with the Takapuna Borough Council for the treatment of a section of macadamised road (reports the “Star”). The work was commenced on Tuesday morning, 314 chains of road of a width of ISft. being surfaced at a cost of £3OO. This was accomplished with a bitumen train, an assemblage of tractor, conveyer, spreader and chain-harrow, which enables road surfacing to be done at a speed hitherto unknown. A mile of road can be dealt with in an ordinary working day.
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Dominion, Volume 22, Issue 175, 20 April 1929, Page 11
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