tar-sealedadj.

1928 R. G. Stapledon Tour Austral. & N.Z. i. 12 Practically every mile of the road so traversed is ‘tar sealed’.

1936 ‘R. Hyde’ Passport to Hell iii. 68 The oakum comes in little short rope-lengths, ship-ropes tarsealed, greasy, and hard.

1959 A. H. McLintock Descr. Atlas N.Z. 62 10,384 miles of roads and highways are tar~sealed or concreted.

1960 I. Cross Backward Sex i. 14 Across a tarsealed yard was the New Wing.

1963 A. Lubbock Austral. Roundabout 10 The bitumen, or tar~sealed, roads are only made over the most frequented highways, and through towns.

1966 G. W. Turner Eng. Lang. in Austral. & N.Z. viii. 172 Roads are still ‘tar~sealed’.

1977 N.Z. Herald 8 Jan. iv. 1/3 (advt.) Situated at Ola Point on the Whangaroa Harbour and gently sloping from tarsealed road frontage to the reserve at Harbour edge.

1957 Numbers Mar. 14 The tar-seal led purposefully to a wall of..stiff pale grasses.

1959 M. Shadbolt New Zealanders 88 They descended..into a lonely part of country. Tar-seal gave way to a road of clay and pumice.

1963 N. Hilliard Piece of Land 91 They'd brought in a lot of land around here since the new tarseal went through.

1972 M. Gee In my Father's Den 26 Her sandals made a clacking noise on the tar-seal.

1977 N.Z. Herald 8 Jan. iv. 5/1 (advt.) Situated on corner of 600 acres. This is very private yet adjacent to tarseal.

1964 Evening Post (Wellington, N.Z.) 10 Mar. 9/4 ‘Tar~sealing originated in Taranaki,’ said Mr. Daniell [of Akura, Masterton]. ‘Metal for the roads in the New Plymouth area had to be carted all the way from the Patea River and was, of course, expensive. Traffic threw much of the metal off the roads and one day a New Plymouth councillor suggested that they ‘seal the metal on the roads’ with tar, and so ‘tarsealing’ was born.’