SALT WATER FOR STREET WATERING.
TO THE EDITOR. giB } —With reference to the paragraphia your paper this morning, re the use of salt water for streeb watering purposes, allow me to say that this system was advocated and insisted on in my native town of Weston-Super-Mare, one of the most rising and fashionable watering places in the Wesb of England, by Mr. Smith, C.E., one of the inspectors of the Government Board, when hearing applications for loans, etc. He insisted, and we found that salt water; was nob only beneficial in laying the dost f bub in consolidating the roadway. No fear, I think, need be entertained as ta injury to goods if the water is judiciously applied, although in the town named we did nob get so much dust as here, as it wag not the practice there to use slush for tha purpose of binding the road metal.—l am, &c, ~ 0. POOLP-, August 5,1589.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XXVI, Issue 9436, 6 August 1889, Page 3
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