PUBLIC WORKS.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXX, Issue 5494, 30 October 1929, Page 2

PUBLIC WORKS.

ESTIMATES PRESENTED.

OHINEMURI ROADS. The Public Works Estimates as presented to Parliament last week by the Hon. E. A. Ransom, Minister of Public Works, contained the following votes in the Ohinemuri County : — Cadman Road, £ for £, £75 (metalling) ; Deam’s Road, free grant, £2OO (metalling); Farrelly’s Road, £ for £, £75 (metalling) ; Ford Road, £. for £, £75 (metalling) ; Kaimanawa Road, £ for £, £125 (metalling) ; Matangi Road, £ for £, £5O (metalling) ; Morton’s Road, free grant, £312 (formation and metalling, amount estimated as sufficient to complete the work) ; Old Tauranga Road to Waihi, £ for £, £250 (metalling); Old Te Aroha Road, Snakey Bend, £ for £, £l5O (formation and metalling) ; Paeroa to Te Aroha (old road), £ for £, £5l (metalling) ; Pukekauri Road, £ for £, £l5O (formation and metalling) ; Trig Road, £ for £, £5O (metalling) ; WaihiWhangamata Road, £54 (metalling) \ Waihi-Whangamata Road, Waiharakeke, Ramarama, and Whiritoa bridges, £2750 ; Waihi to Whangamata (south end), £ for £, £5OO (metalling) ; Waimata Road, £ for £, £lOO (metalling) ; Waitawheta Road, £l7l, £3 for £l, £205 (metalling) ; Waitawheta to Waihi, free grant, £3OO (metalling) ; Waitoki Road, free grant, £lOO (formation. Total for Ohinemuri County, £5935. Ohinemuri and Thames Counties :— Pevreal’s Road, £ for £, £lOO. Included in Thames County were :

Hikuai to Tairua, £lO9O ; HikuaiWhangamata Road, £4OOO ; Hikutaia Stream Bridge, Whangamata-Hiku-taia Road, £1075 (£lOO recoverable from O.C.C. and £lOO from T.C.C.I; Matatoki Road, on account of £5OO, £ for £, £2OO ; Pur iri-N eaves ville Road, £l5O, £ for £, £l5O on account of £866, £2 for £l, £llB4 ; Puriri Station Road, £ for £, £2OO ; Puriri Valley South Road, £ for £, £2OO ; Railway Outlet Drain Bridge (Okewi), £2 for £l, £94 ; Tairua to Whangamata, Paritu to Wharekawa River, £175 ; Tapu to Coroglen, £1257; Tararu Creek Bridge, £3OO ; Waihi to Whangamata Road, £922 ; Whangamata-Hikutaia, £lOO, £ for £, £450 (reconditioning).

Crown Land and Goldfields,

Roading of Crown land : Romunga, OhinSinuri County, £1357, and Rangihau, Coromandel and Thames Counties, £1357. Roads on Goldfields : Maoriland Road, £5O ; Maratoto Road, £350 ; Tui to Pick and Dish, £lOO, Ohinemuri County ; and Te Pohue Creek Road, £2OO, Thames County. HAURAKI PLAINS FIGURES. The Hauraki Plains County figures are as follows :— Awaiti Block roads, Netherton to Awaiti, on account of £1373, £ for £, £BBO ; Campbell’s Road, £250 ; Hicks’ Road, £ for £, £195 ; Hopai Road, extension, subsidy on account of £1133, £4OO ; Kaihere Road, Ngarua Bridge to Morrinsville Road, subsidy, £564 ; Kaikahu Road, £1 for £2, £985 ; Kere-peehi-Kaihere Road £ for £, £450 ; Ngarua Traffic Bridge, £1 for £2, £250; Ngataipua East Road, subsidy, £364 ; Ngatea to Kaihere Landing, subsidy, £2234 ; Ngatea West, subsidy, £427 ; Patetonga Riding Roads, Patetonga Landing Road, on account of £1346, £3 for £l, £5OO, through main road, on account of £11,942, £4 for £l, £9OOO ; Puhanga Canal (east) road, subsidy, £207 ; Rawerawe-Ngatea Road, subsidy, £163. Total for Hauraki Plains County, £16,869.