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A-That is so. Of course, it accumulated in time as the roads wore down and were repaired again.
By Colonel Brown. The roads on the Praya Reclamation, are they not partly without foundation and partly with?
A—The earlier sections were covered with lime concrete, but after Mr. ÖRMSBY came, he introduced the system of bottoming and surfacing with macadam.
Q-Are there not some without bottom at all?
A -I think not.
-We have just heard from the other witness that a part had simply broken stone and blinding?
A-That is so; Des Voeux Road has only six inches of metal on a portion of it. The greater part of this road is old and was consolidated before being re-made.
By the Chairman.-Do you think that the new Reclamation roads will prove satisfactory?
A-They will, I am sure. Of course, they are all new roads, and they want time to get thoroughly set. As we all know, the ground there is gradually subsiding, and inay subside for years to come.
Q-That is a difficulty, of course ?
A-It is.
The surface must be brought up every two or three years.
By Mr. Shewan.-You could not improve Queen's Road with this system without taking it all up?
A-I am not aware that it would be necessary to do Queen's Road. There is such a bed of material on it that it wants surfacing only.
By the Chairman.-How do you account for Queen's Road being so uneven ? Work has been going on there for months, metalling and re-metalling, and still it is unsatisfactory.
A-I think there has been too much done in these two or three mouths. The steam roller has been called upon to do twice the work it possibly could do satisfacto- rily, and I am sure, if the roads had been sufficiently rolle 1, and a little more discrimi- nation shown in the blinding, they would have been better. By putting on a much thinner coating of blinding, the roads would be better than they are.
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too rapidly inade, and the heavy rain shewed this, as well as the excess and unsuit- ability of the blinding.
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you think there has been too much put on ?
A--Yes, and the blinding is not the material it should be.
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A-The screenings of the metal are used at home, and there is nothing better. Here they use earth, practically.
Q--You think they ought to have more satisfactory blinding here?
A-That is so.
Q-Composed, you say, of the screenings ?
A-Yes.
By Mr. Shewan.--You say the steam roller has had too much to do?
A-Yes.
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