WOOD PAVEMENTS
AUSTRALIA'S EXPERIENCE "When they are well sealed in, Australian wood-blocks are practically everlasting," said afi officer of the Tramways Department, Wellington, in commenting upon the use of wood as pavement. "The trouble comes when the sealing is neglected and the water gets in." He drew attention to the perfect state of preservation of the Wood-block pavement in the middle of Lambton Quay, where the new tramway tracks are being laid, saying that they wer# as good a« the day they were laid 34 .years .ago. The blocks he referred to were Australian red cum, not jarrah, as many people supposed. Red gum was not so hard or heavy as ]arrah, and split easily with the grain, as he demonstrated on the spot. \\ ood blocks had been known to last half a century in I-iondon, and that under extremely heavy traffic.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23175, 22 October 1938, Page 16
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