GRAVELLED ROADS

Southland Times, Issue 23406, 13 January 1938, Page 3

GRAVELLED ROADS

To The Editor Sir, —As a user of the roads it is very gratifying to read what your correspondent, who signs himself “Humanity,” has to say about road accidents. There seems little doubt that the principal cause is loose gravel. There are many evils for which it is perhaps hard to find a remedy, but the remedy for this one is so simple that it is hardly credible that the present state of the roads has been allowed to exist so long. The residents around Winton are more fortunate than most as a big improvement is already noticeable on the turns and also some stretches of straight road. The remedy, the good of which has to be experienced to be appreciated, consists merely of putting about one inch of clay on top of the gravel. Now clay is much handier and therefore cheaper to put on than gravel and observation would lead one to believe the gravel would last three or four times as long by being bound as it is put on instead of being scattered all over the road and continually graded back again, and all the time being ground into powder and dust at a big cost in petrol and tyres and, as your correspondent points out, often in human lives. —Yours etc., “HUMANITY’S” SUPPORTER. January 12, 1938.