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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXIV, Issue 81, 17 March 1934, Page 7

Mix-in-ptace, the new method of road-building, appears as a revolution, ary element. In a talk with Mr R. Sanders, whose firm has complete.d contract work on the Longlands road, Aerodrome road and Omahu road, it was learned that with this new method, American engineers laid 20,000 miles ot highway in the United State# last War Mix-Hi-pl ace employs a motordrawn sprayer, behind which come a battery ot lorries laden with metal and each manned by Uvo or three uieu, who slowly follow the sprayer a# It sprays the hot solution. Mr Sanders described it a# the greatest advance made in modern road construction, and said this method would be employed on the I’etane-Westahore section, for which the Main Highways Board had accepted bis tender. Hot-mix and bitumenoua concrete were now both obsolete and higher in cost than mix-in-place, h» added Austria has only two inhabitants with incomes of £30,000 or more. Only one-third of the population pay incoma tax, the average yearly income among the payers being £9O