WESTLAND COUNTY COUNCIL

Hokitika Guardian, 26 November 1920, Page 4

WESTLAND COUNTY COUNCIL

OVERSEER’S MONTHLY REPORT

I have tjie honour to repojrt upon the following work completed during the month of November. KQK ATARI RIDING.

Rpad Dpafijage, £SO was completed tp 32 chains on the eastern side and to 30 chains on the western sjcji’- of Wall Road which completed the whole of tho work specified. Lower Rokatahi Road was repaired in several places with gravel and defective decking on several culverts and bridges removed and replaced, also scrub, cut for repairs to drain npar the mill. KANIEIiI RIDING. Morris Hill Protection £IOO was put in hand and between three and four chains of formation partly completed. This work was estimated to cost £IOO when wages were 12s per day; now the increase in wages may account fpr Re work not being completed for t}ie amount of the granf, as formerly the work pf five men cost the same amount as the work of four men at the present tiqie.

Bruce Road construction is progressing fairly well in spite 0 f the bad weather experienced during the month. Repairs were effected by metalling twelve chains of Han Hau Lead Road and stones broken and ruts raked in on the remaining twelve chains of road. Watertables were cleaned on Hokitika Hau Hau, and Blue Spur road. ARAHURA RIDINQ. • Malfroy’s bridge repairs were continued and oue lower chord in one span and several trnnsomes and struts renewed. Davidson’s .Mill Road, Humphrey’s, was completed by extending the formation and metalling a further distance of one chain. The gorse was cleared from the wheel ruts and bad holes on German road repaired with gravel, it being impossible to obtain a team of horses for road grader to clean the road of grass growth from this road. Arahura Valley was raked in and stone broken in various plaeps. STAFFORD RIDING. The, now road line between Flowery C'rpek and Awatpna was cleared, graded and chained and specification prepared to cover a distance of 40 chains. The construction of this portion will.be costly mving to the scarcity of material for forming, and metalling, also the diversion of a creek jn two places. Awatuna Road was repaired and horse raked, and Griffin’s Road was repaired with gravel. Duffers Road was repaired where scoured over a distance of twenty chains; minor repairs were effected to Duffers Track, fallen trees removed and the outer retaining walls renewed in four open crossings; also a drain cleared in Stafford and a road drain cleared at Waimea. / DILLMAN’S RIDING.

Repairs were effected to Sandys and Loopline road culverts, also Watson’s and Kumara Junction Roads.

tqtara RIDING,

Farmer’s Creek Track yote of £IOO was exhausted, the clearing and repairing being extended to cover a total distance of four miles. Urgept repairs were affected to portions of Totara Road, but the upper portion of the track to Te Puke is bad in a good many places, apd a$ no other labour is available the Rpadpiap will require to proceed to this place as soon as he can he relieved from the Hari Hari district. The Silvermine track was cleared and repaired over a distance of five miles. The removal of the falls in La Fontaine Creek was and is being continued, but not much progress is to be expected during the present continued wet weather. In this connection I have to report the removal of portion of one bar has reduced the normal water level at La Fontaine Creek Bridge, Petersen Road, by nearly six inches. The total fall below the January level is now thirty inches, and if a week’s fine weather is experienced to reduce the present half flood level J expect to increase the depth by eighteen inches, which will make a total depth of four feet below the level of the creek before clearing operations were commenced in January last. RIME RIDING. The waterway of a creek on Adair’s Road was cleared of obstructions to prevent flood water damaging the roadway, and hillocks of wind blown sand on Ruatapu Beach Road reduced .sufficiently to allow light traffic to use the road with safety.