CRUSHED METAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXIX, Issue 79, 23 May 1911, Page 8

CRUSHED METAL.

“I want to know if I am to take .washed metal, as I think one yard of pit meal is worth two yards of crushed metal,” pathetically asked a foreman in tiis report to the Mo a. Road Hoard on Saturday, says the “News.” His opinion was endorsed by most of tiie members, one of whom remarked “that the sooner the crusher is chuckid in the sea the better.” Later on an irate settler waited on the Board and wanted to know why the metalling contract was not proceeded with, i'lio contract had been let some time, and nothing had been done. Specifications should either bo' done away with or else kept up. He also asked it crushed metal was going to boused on the road in question. “The settlors don’t want it. It’s no blarmey good,” bo protested, “especially when there are good pits on the road.” The chairman pointed out that lie had given the contractor permission to -use crushed metal, because ho thought the metal would lie out on the road at once. Ho now found that the man was waiting for the county crusher, which would not ho available for a few weeks. He admitted that ho had made a bad bargain. During the discussion one member emphatically remark'd that the County Council bad found out its mistake in using a '•rusher, and was doing awa.v with it •tfttin’s year. It was resolved to request the contractor to proceed with the contract without any delay.