ROADING EXPERIMENT.
QUALITIES OF METAL. [£7 TELEGRAPH.—OWN COSMKPONBEKT.] THAME3, Monday. An interesting aspanment in reading is being earned oijt in the township to test the quality of the familiar red laeliat quarried at Mctalhim'a Island in the Hauraki Uulf, as against the white shell metal hom the Miranda and Brighton bea-bee. a nty yard stretches of' each variety 0 f nietal have been spread in the vj f-'i f?« are now thoroughly conAlthough it is, perhaps 100 e.riy „ ~t to ]„«?„, » to'tS ~ »<r<l> of tb. Kauri,ls, a, „/ (wW • S r®SL . f surviving the teat to a slightly degree. Th t 'county engith^ l 'ws' r m!rt«rfifr' 18 I ° c!lned Pl«ce the .red metal first in quality on account of its iiupei.ior binding and consolidating p ontiles. UmUactora also agree w|th thiS' Vuii'w. They gay tha shell metal 8 "". to ° 10 the roadside, thus cccaH«|Wng additional expense in recovering the: crown'' of the road. The cost of both materials la&ded at Ngs.toa is about equal : The red metal is used *:ttensively In paartj <jif the Province, chlsflv by *n» Main Highways Board The Ban£v< jUtoIOA Cornell will useaWfc feoo yards 4osicg the nost 3 mmtlis, iSiik
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19254, 17 February 1926, Page 14
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194ROADING EXPERIMENT. New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19254, 17 February 1926, Page 14
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