_The Evening Post_, 5 Sept 1923:
ROADS THAT LAST
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The big bituminous paving plant on order for the City Council should arrive in Wellington in the course of a few weeks now… Wellington in the early days was very well content to bump its carts and wagons along over plain beach tracks, over grass tracks just as they might happen to be, and over the ruts when the grass wore away. Clay, roads came next…
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/EP19230905.2.55
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