COUNTY COUNCIL.

Thames Star, Volume IX, Issue 3036, 7 November 1878, Page 2

COUNTY COUNCIL.

The following tenders for the extension of the waier race were opened to-day •—

No. 1 Section—W. McKenaie, mining timber £1 7s 7d per foot or £924 4s, or £954 14s 7d sawn timber; John Goldsworthy, sawn timber £1197 ss, mining timber £11414s 3d; W. Adams, £18s6d per foot (both mining and sawn timber); J. J. O'Brien, £2 17s per foot sawn timber, £2 18s mining timber; J. Leatham, £L7s per foot (mining or sawn timber); J. Punch, £763 7s 3d (either mining or sawii); H. H. Adams, £1708 10s sawn timber, £1860 16s 8d mining timber (3 sections); White, £1 3s 2d per foot mining timber, £1/ 3s 10J per foot sawn timber; Bead, sawn timber £2 7s per foot, mining timber £2 16s per foot; Grundy, sawn timber, £1 3s 6£d per foot; ft. N. Smith, £1 4s 3d per foot (either sawn or mining); P. Trainor, 18s per foot mining .timber, 19s per foot sawn timber; Driscoll, £1 Is per foot mining timber, £1 3s per foot sawn timber; H. Haye, £1172 lOi (either sawn or mining timber); 8. Montgomery, mining timber £1 10s per foot, sawn£l 7s 6d; Hart, £725 5s sawn timber, £691 10s mining timber; Brett, £1319 16s 3d (either sawn or mining) ; Cornet, 18s 3d per foot mining timber, £1 Is 3d per foot sawn timber; Binney, £1156 10s sawn timber, £1107 17s mining timber; Ensor £854 ss, sawn timber.

No. 2 Section—Bead, mining timber £119s per foot, sawn timber £2; K. U, Smith, £1 4s 3d per foot; either sawn or mining; Murray, £892 15s sawn timber, £859 5s mining timber; Hamilton, £2 Is per foot sawn timber, £2 6s per foot mining; Bowler, sawn timber £111s 7£d per foot, mining timber £1 111 per foot; Stockdale, £740 sawn timber; Mont* gomery, sawn timber £17s 6d per foot, mining timber £1 10s per foot; W. Adams, either sawn or mining timber £1 9s 3d per foot; J. White, mining timber £1 2s 2d per foot, sawn timber £1 3s 10£ d per foot; Grundy, saw»; timber £1 4a 2d per foot; Trainor, sawn timber 19s per foot, mining timber 18* Jer foot; Haye; £1273 10s sawn timber; . Cornet, mining timber £1 Is 9d per foot; Eennick, £804 sawn timber, £737 mining timber; Hart and Horn, £726 6l sawn timber, £69110 a mining timber.

EEPOBT OF BOABD OF WCBIS.

The report of the Board. of Works showed that men had been kept constantly employed on the Tapu road to make it passable for traffic. The Collarbone Creek road had been rendered passable for drays, and quartz had been carted over it. The lower part of Karaka road had been repaired and improved. The further extension of this road^io the foot of Lord Nelson wire tram wajr would be a great boon to Te Papa Gully miners. The Board had instructed the ■urveyor to proceed with the construction of a dray road from the old Una workings toone of the main roads. The Board recommended the construction of a dray road up the lower portion of the Te Papa Gilly. The surveyor had beeninstructed to lay off the Sauaerangft Valley road through Mr Stevens property. On the Ohinemuri road the damage done by the winter traffic had been repaired, and a gravel pit opened near Kerikeri.the material front which was fitted for road purposes. About 30 men had been employed stone breaking. The report concluded as follows:—" Surveys are now being made for the construction of a branch race to convey the water from the Mangakirikiri Creek into main race, and also for the extension of main race from the reservoir in the WaioKaraka to the Moanatairi Creek. The most important part of the latter work is a tunnel 1350 feet in length through the spur between the Waio-Karaka and Waiotahi Creeks, and as this will take the greatest length of time in construction your Board has called for and received tenders for this work."