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NELSON. Tadmor and Sherry to Butter Boad. — Contract No. 19, in hand at the end of last year, has been completed. The total cost of construction of twelve miles of dray-road has been £4,153 Bs. 6d., or £346 2s. 4d. per mile. On the completion of the above the work was stopped, and a further length of five miles and a half is yet required to connect with the main West Coast road. This road would open up about 10,000 acres of Crown lands. Aniseed Valley Dray-road. —Contract No. 23, of two miles' length, at the lower end of the valley, in hand on the Ist July, 1884, has been completed for £471 13s. Bd. During this year contracts Nos. 24 and 25 have been let for £2,752 3s. 9d., and are now in hand. This work has taken longer than the estimated time for construction on account of the large quantity of rock met with and other causes, but will probably be completed in four weeks. On this work the Champion Copper Mining Company pay one-fourth of cost of construction, including survey and inspection. A branch line is also in course of construction from the above road to the company's machine site, United Creek, for a length of one mile and three-quarters, at a grade of lin 19, as a dray-road. For this work contract No. 27 has been taken, at a price of £909 2s. 6d. The Government have granted a sum of £600, the company to supply the balance of cost, and the work is now in progress. Bichmond Hill Horse-track. —A graded road of 1 in 19 has been surveyed from the summit of the hill to the crossing of the Aniseed Valley Eoad, at the Boding Eiver, and some steep pinches eased on the Bichmond side, for which contract No. 28 has been let for £213 2s. The Government have granted £100, and the company to find the balance. The portion graded is three miles and a half for a 5-ft. horse-track, 3ft. in the solid. This work is now in hand. Pigeon Valley and Dovedale Boad. —Mr. H. Tarrant is now employed grading a road over the summit of the hills between these places for the Waimea Eoad Board, who pay the cost of survey. This work is preparatory to bringing this road under " The Eoads and Bridges Construction Act." Inspection of the above works has been made from time to time. John S. Bkowning, Chief Surveyor.

WESTLAND. Kumara to Beach Boad (vote, £,1000). —This road is being constructed by the County Council under supervision of the department. It has been let in three contracts for a total of £1,075 10s. 3d. Progress payments made to date, £506. Its length is two miles and three-quarters, two miles of which are now completed. Formation width, 14ft.; metal, 10ft. Moeraki to Otumotu (vote, £1,500). — Constructed by department. Amount of contract, £1,386 15s. Progress payments made, £234 18s. Length of track, nine miles, two of which are completed. Formation, sft. ; metal, 3ft. Smoothioater to Cascade (vote, £300). —The work was done by day-labour. It consisted of benching 2ft. wide along the properly-graded road-line. The amount voted proved to be insufficient to carry the benching to the open on the Cascade plateau ; it ends at Carmichael's Creek, a distance .of ten miles from Smoothwater Eoad, and about two miles from the plateau. Ross to Greenland. —This and the following roads and tracks are constructed by the County Council, under my supervision. They are subsidized by Government, and, though primarily intended to meet goldfields requirements, they to a very great extent answer also the purpose of opening up Crown lands suitable for settlement. Boss-to-Greenland Track is let in five contracts : total of these, £1,280 18s. 9d. Total of progress payments made by county, £609 los. Government agreed to a subsidy of £960 :of this £233 16s. Bd. has been paid. Length of track, six miles and a half, of which four miles and a quarter are already completed. Width of formation, 6ft.; metal, 3ft. Kanieri Lake to Humphrey's Gully. —Total length, one mile and three quarters; width of formation, 7ft.; metal, 4ft. Part of work was let in two sections. Total of contracts, £277 2s. Payments made by county, £277 2s. Government agreed to a subsidy of £373 6s. Bd., but no progress payments have as yet been made. Larrikin's to Loop-line. —-Let in three sections. Total length, two miles and three-quarters. Total contract price, £439 Is. Government agreed to a subsidy of £333 6s. Bd. Neither county nor Government have made progress payments yet, as the contracts were entered into only a month ago. The width of formation of track is to be 6ft.; metal, 3ft. Cedar Greek Boad (vote, £3,000). —Survey proceeding. Tenders for the first few miles will be invited within a month. Length of road, eight miles; formation width, 14ft. ; metal, 10ft. Greenstone Boad (Duffer's Greek) to Christchurch Boad (Fifteen Mile Post). —Length, three and a half miles ; let in three sections. Total of contract price, £720 6s. 9d. The first half-mile was constructed a dray-road, 14ft. formation and 10ft. metal; the rest a horse-track, 6ft. formation and 3ft. metal. The contracts are completed and paid for. Government subsidized the work to the amount of £480 4s. 6d. Extension of Back Creek Track to Eel Greek. — Length, one mile and three-quarters; formation width, 6ft.; metal, 3ft. Let in two sections, for total of £249 ss. The contracts are completed and the work paid for. Government subsidy amounted to £166 3s. 4d. Boucher's Creek to Gentle Annie Terrace. —Length, one mile; formation width, 6ft.; and metal, 3ft. The work was done for £162 Bs., towards the payment of which Government contributed £80. Gebhabd Muellbb, Chief Surveyor.

Me. Thomas Keee, County Engineer, Westland, reports :— Kumara Sea-Beach Boad Extension.- —Length, two miles and three-quarters; width, 10ft, About two miles of this road extension is now completed, and the whole will be finished in about a month from this date. A vote of £1,000 was allotted for this work by the Government, but the total cost will be £1,527 Bs, when the final payments on the present contracts are made ; so that