Wellington, 4th August, 1849.

New Zealand Spectator and Cook's Strait Guardian, Volume V, Issue 425, 29 August 1849, Page 4

Wellington, 4th August, 1849.

Sir, ' f have the honor to enclose the usual General Abstract of the Expenditure on the Wairarapa Road for the Quarter ending 30th June last. As the road works were almost all stopped at the end of April but

little has been done since that period, except a part of the sea wall to the road near Ngahauranga, the piling- round one of the piers of the Hutt Bridge, and the repaiis necessary to keep the road passable at different places. As the parties under Messrs. Stilling & Swainson only worked during a part-of the month of April, I of course ha\ c no Superintendent's repoit to forward along with my own for the Quarter. I have given however in the abstract a detail of the different works that have been performed at each division of the road, which has been carefully prepared. The total amount of £766 6s. 7d. does not include the sums paid to the natives in April for work performed during the months of January, February, and March, which was ! included in statements of expenditure given in my report for the Quarter ending 31st March, 1849. On the Porirua Road, during the month of April, £45 17s. 6d. was expended in widening and repairing a part of the road between the junction of the new and old roads and Captain Daniells section, and since then a further sum of £15 Is. has been spent in executing such temporary repairs as are necessary to keep the road open, the lower part of it being now in a very bad state and j in many places nearly impassable. Great anxiety is evinced by the native labourers who were employed during last summer to know when they will be taken on again, as the greater number of them have but little chance of earning money in any other way. I have the honor to be, Sir, Your most obedient servant, T. H. Fitzgerald. The Honorable Colonial Secretary, Wellington.