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Hawke's Bay Times, Volume II, Issue 39, 27 March 1862, Page 5 (Supplement)

lilSTltiO'i' of Works executed uiKlor tho cltnrga of the Director of Worts, froin Ist Jiily to itlst Name op Work. Amount. Totals. Remarks.

Napier. Ctli Bareli, 1862

D. G. WRIGHT, Director of Works,

. . : , T ABSTRACT of Works executed under the charge of the Dim December : 1861. Name op Woek. Amount. Totals. £ s. d. ’ £ s. d. Hasting^-street— Payment to Contractor 99 12 6 99 12 6 Shakspeare-road —^ Payment to Contractor ... 369 0 0 Labor and materials for Bridge 30 7 2 '• 399 7 3 3Ieanee Bridge — Payment to Contractor -130 0 0 Removal of Pile Engine, timher for extension of Bridge, &;c 74 4 0 dF504 4 0 IVaghorn-street- — Payments to Contractor 125 0 0 Timber for Bridge, and labor on stone wall 52 12 3 — 177 12 3 W aipnrekv Ferry —- Sundries ... .;. 37 0 6 37 0 6 Petane Food —-Wages 3 4 1 Awatoto Road —Wages 3 14 1 Hospital Road —Wages 11 9 6 Public Buildings — Government Offices 32 4 7 Observatory 76 3 6 Public W'clls 23 10 10 Boat Shed 48 0 0 179 18 11 Napier O-aol — Excavating Foundations 80 18 0 Approach Road 11 0 0 Payment to Contractor 350 0 0 441 18 0 Court-house, Waipaica — 177 2 6 177 2 6 Harbor Improvements— Filling and discharging punts ... 1230 12 0 Coals 281 2 8 Tools, Rope, and sundries 51 2 9 Boat 13 0 0 Repairs to Punts 12 10 0 Timber for breastwork, Ac. ... 505 4 1 Ironwork 143 14 5 Labor on stoneand timberbreastwork 210 4 4 Labor on Jetty ajid approach 57 4 0 Machinery from England 90 17 4 Machinery from Sydney 12 9 8 Timber for framing to carry new * £<-'nr 58 14 10 4 2669 16 1 Total £ 4704 39 7

14 chains formed andmctalJed/Complet-' ing the worst portion of the rdart ’ between Napier and Tareha’s creekV bridge. 10 chains of Shakspeare-road, widened. ■ formed, and metalled, and 7 chains '• fonned over mud Uat. This work " has been much ret arded by the large ' quantity of sollabsorbedinthemud , in some parts 14ft. deep. This bridge has been completed and opened for traffic since 1st Feb. and ' has stood the test of two heavy freshets. 13 chains formed and metalled, & the ? stone wall completed along the whole line of road. As the approach roads to anv new site cannot he fonned and metalled between the next session of the Provincial Council and the wet season, ■the road from the old ferry-house ' to the present site should he trim-’ med and receive a thin coating of ;, shingle to render it passable for the ' coming winter. Bcpairs Repairs Widening approach from Jlilton-road, about 8 chains. Preparations for sitting of Supreme Court, &c. Building completed and mast provided for wind and rain guages Force-pump and fittings for Carlyle-st. well, and sundry repairs Shed on Eastern Spit for Surf Boat. This work has been much delayed thro’ the difficulty in obtaining timber. but the whole is now delivered, and the building fast approaching completiou. This Building is finished, with an office for the District Surveyor attached The total expenditure for the half-year has been £2,GB9 10s. ld.,butofthis £163 Is. lOd. is on account of new machinery and timber framing to carry it, leaving £2,507 14s. 3d. as the sum expended on tbo works iu the harbor for this period, and if from this, the items for timber, ironwork, and labor on account of breastworks and Jetty are deducted, there remains the sum of £1,591 7s. 5cL us the total cost of the dredging operations for six months, for which stun there has been raised 17,500 tons of shingle at a cost of, say, Is. lOd. per ton, including removal to reclaimed land, being about Is. Id. per ton for dredging, and ! d. per ton for discharging & wheeling—prices which will bear favorable comparison with the cost of dredging at anv other port. The cost per ton on the TynC, as reported in the Engineer of 22nd Pcb., 1801 being Sjd. per ton, which if corrected for the difference in price of labor and coals at Napier, would be Is H id. per ton. Hence, prices of coals and labor at both places, being equalized, we have— Cost per ton at Newcastle, with every advantage of improved machinery and extensive onerations —say, 1s. Hid. Cost per ton at Napier, with w->rk on very limited scale, and with gear that was only intended to servo until better could he obtained—say Is. lOd. That the work has been done at so cheap a rate is owing to the verv fovorable nature of the ground. The entrance to the inner harbor has been increased in depth from oft. to loft, at low water, and to twice its width at the time dredging was commenced. The piling on the South side of the entrance requires extending another 100ft. to render the work secure; & the piling on the Custom House side Is hecessarv to give effect to the work already done.