RUBBER FOR ROADS.
A TEMPTING VISTA. “The president of the Rubber Exhibition noAv open at the Agricultural Hall, Islington, put a tempting vista before the eyes of his audience Ayhen he suggested that Avith a fall in, the price rubber might be used for road-paving,” says the “Evening Standard.” “For towns the boon would be priceless. To abolish the road and the rattle, of the motor bus, to reduce it to the respecttul silence of the ‘silent knight,’ to distil the ponderous thunder of the motor lorry into the fine Avhisper of the bicycle -—this is an innovation the merest contemplation of Avliieh makes the Londoner gasp Avith pleasure. But all this does not, unfortunately, affect those dwellers by our main country roads, who, not being gifted Avith the eyesight of Cassandra, did not dPeam of the '.noise that was about to invade their roads Avhen they built their walls a feAV yards only inside the hedge.”
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 3301, 21 August 1911, Page 2
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157RUBBER FOR ROADS. Gisborne Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 3301, 21 August 1911, Page 2
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