ELTHAM.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXV, Issue LXV, 17 December 1913, Page 5

ELTHAM.

(From Our Own Correspondent.) . NEW TARRING PROCESS. After the meeting of thfe Elthank County Council on Saturday, the rnenw bers paid a visit of inspection to the1 newly' laid down piece of the Mountain, road between Anderson road and the v Stratford County boundary. This na» been laid down I>£ a new process' of . . tar-sealing—a special invention of- the? , oount^ engineer (Mr F. Basham) — known as the restar process. 'Itig a. x preparation much more binding and more lasting than the ordinary surface tar and sand method. The councillor* '' . were so much impressed with the work that they have decided to put dowik five miles by the same process in the Kaponga riding. , The method is moreexpensive than the-.ordinary tar spray-^ . inc. but there is'no comparison in ther efficiency aiid duration of the work. .