WAIRARAPA WEST COUNTY COUNCIL.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 4, Issue 1122, 11 July 1882, Page 2

WAIRARAPA WEST COUNTY COUNCIL.

i'■'''•' * ngihb P ß bevoet. '■ ! Sib.—l have the honor to report on tho ' public: >orka of • the. Wairarapa Weil 1 .County. [s i"Op'aki to Mariawatuiroad.-r-The main. L tenance men during tho'past month have ,; "bean'-.eno'ployed; 'I priacipaUy,' clearing .' out drains and repairing the road surface. j, s?hey hav.a-also removed, .a bridge of 80 ' feet spau'at Eketahuna, and substituted a h pu|vert, ; and-embankment. Culvert and i filhhii"No"2o(llir : 6ird,wood!a contract) his i' 'and tne metallirigWstooramenoed. The }, great amount ot net weather experienced f since .the.) work • was coramencebT'liai ■ • rendered it-both difficult and expensive, |- ."Messrs the cony traotora.,for the erection'ofjtwoibridgea on , this rpad.one of 74 feet Bpan, and one of : 60 feet apan, are now preparing to comI mence work on these contracts. Although .. jn.o-.materialsi are -yet delivered on the Irespective sites, I'belieWthe whule.of s timber for the 74 feet span bridge is but, i and all the requisite ironwork is prepared \ and' forwarded to Mastertmi. *■ ; Wangaehu Valley road.—Contract No 8. J. this contract tha- whole of the foiling and clearim; and,two thirds of 'the ". earthwork ii dime. '' , :/ The contractor.for 'section No. 2. lui . now,- placed a,Urge staff 'of men on' the 5 work.about 18 chains of.the felling .and 3 clearing and 15 chains of the formatioiv.is i done. If the weather is at all favorable f this contract will-soon be completed. . Manawatu . South roads.—AjjMttfMßJj

>. chains of contract No, 1, on tho HHnH .'. villa South roa'l is formed, and bRRhH \ of the culverts, except one, are m&S^^ ' fixed in position. "' '■' , . ,0n contract No 2,' work isjiW' com'. , menced, . ■'. j , '' i ■'. Onoontact No 4.Bo'chains of fellinjj ' >! and : clearini; is done, and the formation . Commenced. .With; the exception jst y clearing away, a few small slips whioh have occurred during the last three ov k four days, contract No 4, is completed, 1 Pahiatua Roads.-Madsen Bros are ' proceeding with the felliiifi, clewing, and [' formation on contracts 4 and B at j Pahiatua. , ,;..Waingawa Protective Works. The works' now being executed for the purpose , of protecting the southern pier and ap- [ proaeh of the Waingawa Bridge will short- , i. ly be completed. Besides the works for . | i; tha'protection'of the.pier and approach... . J :' three sets of piles and booms hav^ißM ': erepted, These are intended traHHH 1 the velocity of ..the stream at a poi^HH r . 'little above the south end of the bridge^Hj and also to oaiiie a scour during floods in ~ -the openings more towards ilio centre of ' - , the bridge. At present nearly the whole [ of the.wator; flows through two or three I -pperiirigs at the' South eiid ; of. the Bridge. ['• ;\Vaipouui Protective Works.'—About a A •: jmonthjago'.a fresh;ocqurred- inj the Wai« I I poua; river.which damaged somewhat tho 1 .' embankment at the north end of the | bridge and partly stopped the taiflieior a few* hduft;- Had' the; protective works < wbiqhwereaqth'oriied'to be constructed j l '' (shortly before the floo'd occurred) been executed, no damage, wonld have brtu 1 done to the embankment. These protec- < tire forks ara now-being proceeded with, and will ihbrtly be wmpleted. Waiphipe.: Bridge.-, The Waloblne ' ' Bridge contract except the painter's work ii. ; noiT: completed..- ..The contractor hat now expressed his willingness to allow the fc , : tp-stand-over for two or I three montni," This Will bs an advantage I ; :aiitwill:8llo!r : lhe timber in the trunei I

! to get somewhat leMorjed before the paint* 8 Surrey* —Abont 70 chains of a road | j- the Rua- t .. Mhtingi.. river from the Maurice»ille . \ f iSoWHio'adi and within'i tbe Maurieeville 3 South Blook: h» been during the past 3 ;^6ifth': roW r e]fad'foif (Joiißtrnotion. The .lyoatioh and,survey for construction of >' part of tK6 'Alirodtoh -ti ravimca is being <- : ' I'TeatHeJiton to close ' 'on the lit inst for tha.ereotion of a small J ' bridge on the 1 ibttin : road at Featheraton 1 ' • ; wpre adverted for, butm only one teMf -I : waiMceiyed/and that bue.being oodfeer. f l ..*% o»e'r my'pstiraaterX was InilruJw by ; the' .'Works :C!Dmm|tree .to.': advertise for , fresh tendero; TheVfresh- lenders were : *eceiTedl»B^ighlßiid'#). ; bo placed bei .fpra;you,.to'aay. ; ' ! ;# l ■":••".;,.!":,,JohnKiko. i- -••!>.• v.'.-iiOonhty Engineer.