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    1. [NZ-HB-PB] HBH 1892 Sept 16 WATERWORTH
    2. Elaine Mattsen
    3. HBH 1892 Sept 16 WATERWORTH Mr WATERWORTH is making arrangements for improving the method of laying down tar pavements in the town. A large boiler is being erected in the Corporation yards, so that all the tar used can be not only well boiled, but also deprived of substances which, while valuable in themselves, yet prevent the tar drying quickly. These products are eliminated by distillation, which gives a compound of naphthalene, ammonia, and crude carbolic acid. These being taken from the tar leaves the latter better than before as a footpath-forming material, and Mr WATERWORTH hopes to still further utilise the compound by separating the carbolic acid, with which to manufacture a cheap disinfecting

    10/21/2007 02:14:06