A TENDER?

Evening Post, Volume CVI, Issue 129, 28 November 1923, Page 6

A TENDER?

FOR THE HUTT fIOAD

AUSTRALIAN FIRM INTERESTED!

Mr. E. Parker, of Australian Roads, Ltd., is at present in Wellington, and 13 considering submitting a tender from his company for the construction of the Hutt road. For twenty-five years Mr. Parker was with the big American roading firm' of Warren Bros., Boston, and has only recently commenced operations in Australia, though already the new firm's operations have mounted up to big figures, He considers that so solid and nrm is the foundation offered by the ilutt road that a lighter bitumen surfaco-? ■£" that specified by the Actingwty Engineer, and approved by the Hutt Road Board, would b e ample to support traffic likely to run over the road for many years. If. a f n] I i s Bubm'tt*<l by his firm, stated Mr. Parker, he would be willing to give a five years' guarantee w satisfaction and of free repair should repair b e necessary during that period, and would arrange to back that guarantee with a bond of up to £25,000. His nrm would, in the event of their enterins a successful tender, bring the whole plant necessary over from Australia unu! v? 6 char S6 of administrative officers, but New Zealand labour would be called tor. Since 1901, stated Mr. Parker to a i'ost reporter, the firm of Warren aros upo n whose patented road type the Australian firm was working, had aid over g 5 milUon c , s q{ bituminous paving, which was equivalent to 5422 miles of reading 30 feet vT jj j 0, le great majority of cases, he added, the American road builders did not bother with concrete kerbing on either side of the bitumen running surtace, for it was considered that the exFw 6 -T. ?° fc Justified by -any. return ■Se kSg. °btained by the la^ of