FOOTPATHS.
TO THE EDITOR. SIR, —The formation of footpaths in TeAwamutu is a work that will from now onwards occupy a good deal of the Town Board’s attention. The condition of some of our already tarred paths, more particularly Roche and Bank Streets, upon which so much tar has been used with such poor results, has prompted me to humbly offer a suggestion which has proved so successful in at least one town in the Dominion. Instead of tarring the whole width of the path (some 12 or 14 feet) the town in question found it paid better to asphalt a strip four feet v/ide keeping inwards two feet from the permanent kerb line and protecting the edges of the asphalt with a temporary kerbing of 3 x I battens. When the permanent kerb goes in the asphalting is continued out to it, the inner 3xl kerbing remaining until traffic and taxes warrant the asphalting of the inner half of the footpath. Pardon me for taking up so much of your space in presuming to advise our Town Board, but having’ experienced the durability and economy of this method, i am prompted to take this liberty. DULCIT.
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Waipa Post, Volume II, Issue 66, 1 December 1911, Page 3
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