DEPARTMENTAL REPORTS. ROADS AND WORKS, &c.

Tuapeka Times, Volume V, Issue 223, 9 May 1872, Page 5

DEPARTMENTAL REPORTS. ROADS AND WORKS, &c.

The annual report of the Engineer for Roads and Works states that the cost of maintaining main roads during the year varied from. L 35 18s to LlOl 14s, while the total cost, including a complete renewal of metal every six or twelve years, varied from L 99 16s to L 204 6s, while the averages under those two conditions are LB3 18s and L 145 17s. Among the road works recommended during the ensuing year are : Portions of road adjoining Shag River ; at Shingle Terraces, Otepopo, on the Main North Road ; construction of portions of the Palmerston to Eweburn road, at Coal Creek Hill ; gravelling of portions of the Main orth Road at Hampden. between the Kakanui River and Wairenaka Creek ; metalling of road through Round Hill Saddle ; gravelling and pitching between Tuapeka and Teviot ; extension of Clinton to Waipahi road ; portions of the Tokoraairiro and Clutha road to be at once metalled'; completion of the tracks to head of Lake Wakatip and Lake M'Kerrow ; forming and gravelling road between Clyde and Cromwell, and formation of portions of road from Teviot to Alexandra. Among the bridges to be carried out are the following :— Hayes Lake, Piawata. Pleasant River (upper crossing), Pomahaka (Waipahi to Tapanui), ishotover (at Arthur's Point), Lindsay's Creek, and foot bridge at Arrowtown.