DUST, MUD, OK TAR?

Manawatu Times, Volume LXIV, Issue 282, 6 December 1907, Page 4

DUST, MUD, OK TAR?

The Mayo? is seeking to "lay the dust" by the primitive process of converting it into mud and' washing , away the crown of the streets. That is what our methods of watering amount to under existing conditions. And tho remedy proposed is to accentuate those evils. If tar were freely used there would be infinitely less dust and the street surfaces would be preserved. Why then do we not try tar? The first cost of a tar spreader is greater than the first cost of a water cart, also tar costs more than water, but tar mends while water mars, and the last cost' of tar would be probably very much less than that of water plus constant repairs. Oil would obviate the need of water and do away with dust, but here the tar method would apparently be the less expensive of the two. Either would be infinitely preferable to what the Council does, and the proposed improvement will in the effort to lay the devil of dust raise seven other devils of sloppy, broken roadways.