WILSON'S (N.Z.) PORTLAND CEMENT.

Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 138, 15 June 1927, Page 16

WILSON'S (N.Z.) PORTLAND CEMENT.

Wilson's (N.Z.) Portland Coment, for which Messrs. Manson and Barr, Ltd., are Palmerston . North and district agents, has become so 'essential*'to' the practical farmer and building contractor that it savours of "carrying coals to Newcastle" to stress the advantages of always specifying "Wilson's" Cement when ordering. There is a now phase, however, iv which cement of the best quality is: going to play an important part, and that is in respect to the roading problem. 'There can be no doubt about the wisdom of concrete roads; they have got to come, and tho sooner municipalities a.nd highway boards recognise this the better it will bo for the taxpayers and''users'alike.'' Ne\v Zealand can no longer be doiried'i its rightful heritage, the concrete roud. The earliest concrete roads wero built in Scotland, from 1805 onwards. 1 Tho United States of America commenced some thirty-flve years ago, and at tho moment is posseasod of 50,000 miles of concrete roads, with an enormous mileage projected for tho immediate future. In Now Zealand, we cannot go back further, possibly, than 1915-1916, when Auckland embarked upon a policy of permanent roading. Tho Northern metropolis is now possessed of some fifty miles of this durable surfacing in the city and suburbs, and is attempting to satisfy an insistent demand for greatly increased mileages. It will not be long before tho concrete way extends from tho Auckland Chief Post Offico to twenty miles distant in several directions. Other centres are displaying a similar activity, in requiring that the proved qualities of concrete roads shall be adopted. Hoads that havo sorved their purpose in the past under moderate conditions of traffic must now give place to a ty\xj of road that alone can stand up to the requiromonts oi', tho vastly increased presentday traffic. Tho early failuros of concrete roads (and it has to be admitted that there wero such—remoto though they were), are directly traceable to a lack of understanding as to tho essential qualities of cement .required, and j a lack of appreciation of tho important ' part that suitable aggregates play. Pre-sent-day high-grade- cements are'manu- j factured to rigid specifications, anil n, rigorous caro is exercised in the selection of entirely suitable aggregates. A booklet giving valuable, information in respect to the many uses of Wilson's (N.Z.) Portland. Cement.pan bo obtained on application to the agents, Manson and Barr, Ltd., Rangitikei street, Palmerston North." .