HOT MIX TOO DEAR
COM2.' Li; I’3 COSTS OF PAKbWHAI ROAD WORK.
In regard to the proposal to lay a bitumen surface on the Pakowhai road, the chairman of the Hawke’s Bay County Council to-day stated that the Main Highways Board was willing that 4 hot mix surface should be put down, on condition that the Hawke’s Bay County Council paid the difference between the cost of a scaled surface and a hot mix surface. The 3-coat sealed surface would cost approximately £l6OO a mile, of which the council’s share would be £4OO. The hot mix surface would cost approximately £4400 a mile, of which the council’s share would £3200. or £2BOO a mile more than that which was decided on. Under those conditions the council felt it s not advisable to put down a hot mix surface.
Cr C. Lassen considered that the offer would benefit the Highways Board but was not to the advantage of the County.
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XX, Issue 73, 10 March 1930, Page 5
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