WAIRARAPA EAST COUNTY COUNCIL.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 5, Issue 1406, 16 June 1883, Page 2

WAIRARAPA EAST COUNTY COUNCIL.

~;,.,« .■„-. JiKOINEBB'SRkPOBT, !<y^' : i*i&h' ji^-p'- : -\i'y''---^ : - , : :/ y-■■'-■:■ ' Siit,lhavethe'hbnor fo report >im- the Public Worksi of of the Wairarapa East ■ - County. :' ''; iy :;' Z: l y ;Opakito Manawatu'Road.—The main- >f onthis roaa\';, have .boeh em;'':: ployed during the past month -in' attending ; to surface repairs, and iu cleaning '. nut i and improving the drains., On Bridge Contract . No,' 15, fair progress is being made,:: nearly '•■ all the requisite materials are provided, the • trusses framed, and 'ho necessary prepara- - , tions for pile drivingmtdoi Trie works so': far are well executed. - Bridge Contract No, - 1(1, -About 12,000 feet of timber and nearly all the ironwork for this bridge is delivered at the,site, and part of the timber is wrought up. Bridge Coatract No, 17,—N0 : . materials for this uontraot are yet provided, ,1 have from time.to time urged the contractor to have the necessary materials delivered. 1 . : '' ; , : "' ■'/.'■ '.■'• -•■ ■ Pahiatua Roads.—Contracts Nos". 1 and 2 on the Pahiatua roads are nearly completed. ' On contract No. 3 the bush is felled, and the formation commenced. . Makakahi Road.- Contract No. .1. On this contract the bueh is fel'ed and cleared, and twelve chains of .the formation partly executed; .Si '•■:': ."if-. ; -, '!'■'. '. ;,:;; ; . \K Hawera Boad.—Contract No. 2, Little work has been done on this contract sinoe I last reported on it. Mwut three-fourths of tho works are executed, so far they are fairly well done, Contract No, 3 On this .■" contract about two-thirds of tho works are -t ex c:ited,'. Uontraot No iis not yet oom-■■ ''' " ineneed, . , ■'■■ : . ■■.< Central Mangaone Road.—Contract No. 1. On this oontraot the bush is felled throughout and pirtly cleared. Dreyors Book Boad.-Contraot No I, . Very litt'e progress has beon made with the works on this contract since I last reported i on the same. > i Maurioeville South Road Bridges.-Except , tarring tho deck of ono of tee brides this contract is now complete, the works throughout are fairly well executed. ' Surveys, -The surveys txooulcd of raids '< proposed to be made under tho Boads and Bridges Construction Act, of 1882 are as ( follows:—Eketahuua to Tiaui R al, 14J miles j Ca'tlepoint to Waimata m\, (ij ' miles; Pahaua to Martinborough road, 11 miles; Maugapakeha to Uriti road, li miles; ' j Deviation Waihenga to Martinborough road 33 chains. Working sections and estimate ' for theso roads are flow in court oof preparai tion. . ■' . ' I have, Ac,, 1 Jop, Kino, ' . .' 1 ■ ' . Oqpty IJugineor.