WAITOMO COUNTY COUNCIL.

King Country Chronicle, Volume VIII, Issue 628, 17 December 1913, Page 7

WAITOMO COUNTY COUNCIL.

—-a ENGINEER'S REPORT. Since your last meeting the weather has been exceptionally wet and consequently very little work of any description has been done. With regsrd to "metalling contracts, Messrs Tarry and Go. about oU chairs on the Waitomc Valley road, and Delivered lOOvda of Ehingle for blinding the limestone metal on the TeKuiti' Te Kiani road. Mr Innes completed 10 chains on the Pukraruhe road. This is practically all the metalling done during the >:uonth. On the other metalling contracts, all necessary arr;'::Rements were made to start work, but beyond a little quarrying the weather presented anything further being done. Small prngre=s only was also made on earthwork contracts. Mr Smyth completed his contract on the Kohua road and made a good job of it. On the Mangaotaki road, Mr Edgar satisfactorily completed th i building of the stone culverts. On the south end of the HangatikiOtorohanga road Mr Hogg made, in the circumstances, fair progress, having completed during the month a distance of 40 chains of 14 feet formation. On the Owaikura road Mr fi. Ormsby completed the formation contract let to him some time ago. This road is now open for wheel traffic throughout. All the materials for the bridge over the Mangapu stream on Wihon's road are now at the site, and start will be made with the erection of the bridge in the course of a few days. Engineering surveys are now being made for widening on the Lower Mangaotaki and Maire road. Surveys are also being made in connection with the various metalling schemes. Finger post 3 were erected during the month at moat of the important road junctions, a few more, however, have yet to ba put up. On the Kawa road Meßsrs Scott and Forsyth have now to hand most of the hardwood piles required for the bridge over the Waipa river. As all the staging and preliminary work is now completed, pile driving and the erection of the structure will be commenced as soon as the weather takes up. In connection with maintenance and repairs. I had about 70 yarda of shingle carted and spread on the roads in the vicinity of Otorohanga. In the Tangitu district a number of men were employed shifting slips and effecting necessary repairs to roads in that locality. I should like to draw your attention to the state of the main T« Kuiti-Awakino road. The portion of this road under the control of the Council requires to be practically remetalled, and a considerable expenditure on this work must be faced as soon as possible, if the road is to be kept open for wheel traffic. The state of the road is beyond ordinary repair, and any attempt to patch up what is left of the original coat of metal will be only frittering money away. £s soon as the weather is safe for doing so, the worst holes will be filled up and levelled off, and the road put in order for summer carting.—E. R. Gould, County Engineer.