ROAD RESURFACING

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18236, 3 November 1933, Page 11

ROAD RESURFACING

THREE GRADES OF ‘CURES’ So far there has been no decision of the Wellington City ami Suburban 3,vnys Board to continue the re■ting of the Main Mutt road. The already done on the city side of 1 Ngahauranga appear to indicate that the corporation engineers have evolved the right solution necessary for the work- but it is thought the board woflld prefer a longer time test before pushing on with the major job. The fast job of the sort done by the Highways Board is the resurfacing of about three-quarters of a mile of the old military road just beyond Lower Hutt. In this work there are three “cures’ of solution —rapid, medium and slow —and it all depends on the climate and the nature of the traffic which “cure” is selected. If anything the slow “cure’’ is considered preferable where traffic is not too heavy, as it can he levelled out and shaved for some 10 days after it is first laid down. The medium “cure” solution has been found most efficacious in Wellington, and is standing up well to the tests to which jt has been submitted. The rapid “cure” t*ij s used where, in heavy traffic, a speedy 'job is required.