WOOL FOR ROADS.
(F’rom a Gorrespondcnt.) BLENHEIM, Monday. The possibility of using wool as A road surfacing material was suggested to the Marlborough Shcepowners' Union by Mr W. G. Rudd, who related that at Benopai some years ago, through an accident, a mass of wool became impregnated with tar. The whole mass was flung out on to a roadway, where it. specdly incorporated itself with the road surface. It had been subjected to years of heavy traffic, hut was quite unaffected. Mr Budd said the accident had suggested to him that a good use might be fqund for ihe rougher qualities of wool. Members of the union appreciated the possibilities of the proposal, and it was decided to ask the Marlborough County Council to lay down an experimental sLrip of the wool-tar mixture, members of the union providing the rough wool for the purpose.
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Waikato Times, Volume 110, Issue 18521, 29 December 1931, Page 11
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