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List of Works on Goldfields constructed wholly by the Mines Department, or by Subsidies to County Councils, Local Bodies, and Prospecting Associations, and completed on the 31st March, 1886.

Locality and Nature of Work. Total Cost. Amount of Contribution paid by Mines Department. NOETH ISLAND. Eoads. Coromandel County. Improving Eoad to Iona and Just in Time Companies' mines Making and improving track from Tokatea towards Kennedy Bay Making and improving track from Golden Belt to Tiki Making road from Eing's Bridge to Kapanga Mine Making road to Kapanga Mine Temporary track from Tokatea Saddle to Waikoromiko .. .. .. • ■ ■ Continuation of track from Success Company's mine to top of main range Completion of road from Tokatea Saddle to Tokatea Battery Widening road from Matawai to Vaughan's claim .. .. .. Improving track, Mercury Bay to Waitai Continuation and improving Waikoromiko track Emily Battery to Eocky Creek £ s. d. 200 0 0 320 0 0 239 3 3 150 0 0 132 0 0 50 0 0 80 0 0 50 0 0 357 0 0 100 0 0 150 0 0 60 0 0 £ s. d. 133 6 8 213 6 8 159 8 10 100 0 0 88 0 0 33 6 8 53 6 8 33 0 8 238 0 0 66 13 4 100 0 0 40 0 0 1,888 3 3 1,258 15 0 Thames County. Making new road from Ohinemuri Eiver to Karangahake quartz-mine Dray-road to connect Otanui mines with crushing-battery at Maungawherawhera Creek Improving roads from Waitekauri Eoad to Katikati Eoad Improving road up Karaka Creek to LuekyH it Company's mine Improving road to upper mines, Waitahi Karangahake to battery Ealph's Battery, Waitekauri Otanui Eoad to mines Road to Wick's Battery Rocky Point Road, Tararu Thames Borough boundary to hematite mine 650 0 0 710 0 0 250 0 0 263 1 0 258 18 10 300 0 0 399 1 0 299 18 0 70 0 0 300 0 0 350 0 0 433 6 8 473 6 8 166 13 4 175 7 4 172 12 7 200 0 0 199 10 6 199 18 8 46 13 4 200 0 0 233 6 8 3,850 18 10 2,500 15 9 Piako County. Extension and completion of Te Aroha Tramway .. .. Tramway to Fergusson's Battery, Waiorongomai.. Eoad, Waiorongomai 18,000 0 0 1,500 0 0 500 0 0 12,000 0 0 1,000 0 0 333 6 8 20,000 0 0 13,333 6 8 Hutt County. Road to connect Otorongo Bay with Albion Company's battery ; also to connect Terawhiti quartz-mine with battery 509 16 6 210 17 0 SOUTH ISLAND. Tuapeka County. Making road from top of Terrace to Waipori Bush Eoad, Beaumont to Remarkable Bush Improving road from Waipori Township to antimony mines, Lammerlaw Eanges .. Waipori Township to Waipori Bush 300 0 0 300 0 0 200 0 0 200 0 0 200 0 0 200 0 0 133 6 8 133 6 8 Southland County. Improving tracks from Mataura to Nokomai Improving road, Waikaka to Leatham Improving road from Waikaka Township to Leatham Creek Improving road from Waikaka to Waikaka railway-siding .. Widening and improving bush-track to Waikawa.. Waikaia to Whitcombe 1,000 0 0 666 13 4 75 0 0 150 0 0 30 0 0 150 0 0 150 0 0 150 0 0 50 0 0 100 0 0 20 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 Westland County. Improving track, Boutcher's Creek to Gentle Annie Terrace Bridle-track to Kanieri Lake Bridle-track to Eel Creek Tunnel-track, Galway Beach to Gillespie's Beach Eoad from Duffer's Creek, Greenstone Eoad, to Fifteen-mile peg, Christchureh Eoad Continuation of track, Back Creek to Eel Creek Bridle-track, Duffer's Creek, Bowen and Okarito Eoad, to sea-beach Eoss Borough boundary to Mount Greenland Track, Kanieri Lake to Humphrey's Gully Track, Larrikins' to Loopline Dam 705 0 0 470 0 0 120 0 0 719 11 0 168 9 0 437 5 0 726 9 0 249 4 0 333 18 0 1,280 15 0 279 2 0 449 11 0 80 0 0 359 5 6 84 4 6 218 12 6 480 4 6 166 3 4 222 12 0 853 16 8 186 1 4 299 14 0 Grey County. 4,7b4 4 0 2,950 13 4 Road from Notown to Deep Creek Eoad from Langdon's to Moonlight Contribution from Goldfields vote towards main road Track, Waip'una to Clarke's River Track, Cameron's to Cape Terrace 1,100 0 0 1,600 0 0 2,296 6 6 1,200 0 0 700 0 0 550 0 0 800 0 0 2,296 6 6 800 0 0 466 13 4 896 6 6 4,912 19 10