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-If you were making any new roads now, what would you do?
A-I should believe in good macadam rather than concrete, because it would be more easily repaired. With concrete, you have to allow it to get considerably out of repair before it pays to repair it.
Q-So it would be better to have roads with good foundations and no lime con- crete ?
A-I should think so.
Q-What was the idea of having this little foundation and lime concrete? it supposed to be cheaper?
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A-There was no foundation to the lime concrete.
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Q-Was that supposed to be cheaper, then?
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A-No, it is more expensive than macadam, to begin with.
Q-Then really the person who is responsible for this lime and concrete road made a mistake?
A-I think so.
Mr. Shewan. He provided a dearer road and a less suitable road !
By Mr. Thurburn.—I think it was put on the old Praya originally, because the Praya used to be dug out when there was a typhoon. The old Praya was maca- damised before, and that concrete was put there originally by Mr. PRICE to prevent this. Now, that bit of road between Blake Pier and Pottinger Street, supposing there is a typhoon with high tide and waves breaking over it, is it not more liable to be dug out than the other part which is concreted?
A-Yes.
By Mr. Shewan.-That would be preferable to having a road which must be very bad before it can be repaired ?
A-Yes, I think so. Where the rubble bottom is under the macadam it is not very easily dug out by the waves. As a matter of fact, a part of the macadam was washed away, but the band-packed rubble was left.
By Mr. Master.-Have you hal any experience of road:making?
A-Yes.
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Q-Do you think wood pavement would be a good thing here?
A-I should think it would.
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Q-Would you prefer it yourself to macadam or concrete?
A-Yes.
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By Mr. Shewan. It would probably be still more expensive?
A-It would last very well, I think, if it was not disturbed, but there are always so many pipes being laid down. If all these pipes were in sub-ways and could be got at without disturbing the road, then I should think that, in a busy road like Queen's Road, it would be very suitable.
By the Chairman. Do you think it would be likely to suffer from white- ants ?
A-I don't think they would have anything to do with it, owing to the constant traffic.
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