ENGINEEER'S REPORT.

Manawatu Herald, Volume II, Issue 4, 5 September 1879, Page 2

ENGINEEER'S REPORT.

1 xrwiTEAiunma. : t ' -, Tlxe metalled portion of Kiinboltou^Road'f , is in a much bettor, state of repair. Mr John Aitken is pushing on with tho buA felling; ard. clearing on M 'Bgth' s lino of road, and"'fiocking is making'fair'prbgress With bushf elling and clearln£:Kimbolton Road. ' . . MAXCnESTEU HIDING- . Kimbolion ' Road, frojn Chamberlain's Mill to Cheltenham, is iv a very fair Abate pf repair.; .'" ' ';' ! ' '' '• ' "' ' ", il l : I Bt|^l6y ; hiis had a makioh hia length'; } duriirj^tbe month, doing the necessary j-eiv' paira to his contract. - '■ ... ' i*.i That piece of road from Chamberlain's Mill to centre of town of ( Feilding, is out up very much through the heavy traffic, and* requires some metal spread.. This can bo done during the summer by the maintenance mcii. . . • t Feilding to Awahuri Roud is in ft fair state of repair. " V Gorge Boarl,— Some parts of this road are cut up very much through the heavy sleeper traffic with narrow tire drays, and also the rotten metal that was put 01. The men are s and have been at work filling in ruts with broken stone. ■' ■: ' " : • Gorge Bdaa.-^Same applies %P this as to Manchester Riding., „ ; , jd Rangitikei line is?in very mi* n beHuj^B order since it hus been reraetaliedA^^J^^^M — .Foxton lino is in very good riE^9^^^^H have (o Hsk this Council what I anvto^|H^| abate the nuisance and cost of ckaring^^^f ditches, &c, causoil by Maori pigs rootul|H in side ditches. These ditches cost thia^V Council a considerable sum of money to clean out last summer, and. now, in some parts, more especially at Awapttni,.theyaco in a worse stale than before. /propose dming mt suHfener to place the maintenance inuivCn to widen the roadway at Awapuni. This roadway being directly alongside tlie railway platform, Mr J. T. Stewart has consented to supply a U\r loads of gravel by rail for same.c^A.t present time there is not sufficient room for two traps to pass. Bush felling, General Government grant. —The -whole of the work" authorised is finijhed satisfactorily. I have staked out and called tenders for 30 chaina^f formation on boundary road west. A small bridge is requited on County Road at Jao key town.. The present jpije -. I being too close to rfilway, is both inconvenient and dangerous, I would ask t^e sanction of this piece of work at onco. > OKOUA ItIDISG. '. » The roaJs in chis riding are iv a very gooUtffl state of repair. . The two handrails to bridges near Sausb^^H turn finished. . '^^1 K&.WA. KAWA KIDINQ. WKH Tho meLalled part of road is iv a very fair £ order * I would suggest the desirability of having say, from half to one mile of road leadiug froj^. Sanson to Foxton metalled, starting" at ond of ureaent metalled road, and continuing on for the distance mentioned tow'urds Foxton. At present time this w B complete quagmire, nndJjeing clay, formation will be very much^orse directly dry ~- weather sets in, that is till the clay i 3 baked hind. _ '■-,'■ ' Toe rest of the road is in tolerably good order,' and I see incwt of the gorae that was granted on scrubbed sand cuttings is grow* ing. *' AWAITOO BIDl^. : I have oarrie I ISut your instructions in having tho grav^Bfeluoed at Forty, I?oxtoirv~ have also had sevornl loads of spread on Jfaiu-Streot, Epxton ; ros»o| ,this Biding is in very good repair?- | I have reoeived an answer fr^ni Mr HU\&ryjjjMs section, but the pave asked .is Tcra^K and would make ihrT^h'ort longth of roß^ery costly. j • HOEOWHBNUA RIUINQ. I spent about a week on-Wis'lnland road, and am happy to say havo got < . it fafcly started again. At Otaki the natives are^^r" still felling bush. On my laßt|trijHHeiMien, Hoani Taipua and Hema another 40 chains ; * at Waikawa Hakariah ia still felling and 1 i clearing. 2 Mr Klyger has again started \ ehind Horo* mwheuua Lake, I having arrange! as to tho M course to strike for Road line. . _ \^L I h'ivc had some slight repji ra done to^f roads nt Otaki. Acoordiujf o you? in- "; ; structions, I inspected the orillet, &(#.at Otaki, wheie the Utaki High pays iwio'd complains of the wuter from Cmnty ioad running down same, and t>sk« for Cflßuty ho muke provisions, for gutting |vftter way, *I beg to state that the said 'wuter » dot f1 om the County Road, but fro.n\tkß' i6ud that has been latoly.fi' rmed by thjiCoun- . cil out of General GoVernulignT~«TiNj^&fjgl-i| £.1000. I did not go fr|" the iua^jfl||Hjfl nu£ily, as I take it thaWhis Couucfl^^^^^H ra^pmsible for tho wate^Jpng bye road, lbo wnter thmi goes QJ^^K^^^^k bye road from the County J l '9^^^^^^Bß slight, and it is also its iuitun|J^^^^^^^H FBUUIEB. ''-^^^^^^^^^1 The whole of the ferrie^^^^^^^^H working order. I have he^^H^^^^^^^H| about eilhi-r of the aaid fs^^^^^^^^^^^^H ■ I have, called fo^nders^^H^^^^^^^H the Government R^Derve n^^H^^^^^^H