BURNT CLAY FOR ROADS.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2195, 20 May 1908, Page 3

BURNT CLAY FOR ROADS.

['i'j the Editor.] Sir-lie your article in Saturday’s A; .r-it to <■%?■‘is in inauy parts ot .Un gland . . year* or more to use this material as che basis of all new roads, especially vhere through the bottom being bad Of motal would be ,e----run red 111 such a caso the bottom would 'be made up of -burnt> ckj pr mllnst as it is. termed (sometimes red bailee.), .udowortto just an ordinary coating of metal, lire result being not only a goocl road hut a cheup one, considering tn ,ire of the bottom:-rather ure • ri that sucli a material has il SZ"Z'XS-mI “weTola, metal on top. Whore it was spread in winter it would require nothing more than an occasional levelling ot the surface. Spread in dry weather, it would require a light blinding with clay or it would prove hard to the horses’ feet. _ In substance it is not unlike the ordinary burnt brick, but not having been puddled it is more porous and would easily allow of water draining through and off of it; whilst it may be equally as hard as the hardest of bricks, this depending upon the quality of the clay and the manner of burning it. , ~, x It would be worth while to treat, say, a mile of very bad country road with it. and s 0 ascertain its value, and I venture to assert that if this is done once it will be done again ind again. I shall be glad to give any interested person any further information on the subject that they may require. —I am, etc., M ADDISON. Gisborne, -May 18.