will be necessary on the North side of the watershed of the Tutaekuri, Kiwi, Kiwi and Inanga-taiki creeks. This will bring the road to the lowest part of the Puketitiri forest. The bush will here be cut through for four miles - a dead level, as far as the Aniwaniwa flats - slight side cuttings are here necessary to the Mohaka three miles distant. This portion will be a decline of one in twenty. The Mohaka is reached at the mouth of the Mohaka creek - where a small bridge will be necessary and a larger one for the main river which is here only eighty five feet wide. A bridge of about 100 feet span can easily be thrown across the river - the land on both sides being a flat terrace. The water is very deep on the East side and the current moderate. Timber in abundance can be obtained at the Puke titiri forest, and (as I have stated) the road is a descent from the bush to the river. After having crossed Para - wera - nui flats to the mouth of the Ripia valley, where the heavy portion of the work may be said to commence. This valley is the key to the Taupo plains, being open and unbroken through its entire length of from thirty to forty miles, and with the exception of a belt of Tawai forest, in the lower portion of the valley, which belt is about ten miles wide, a very little labour would make an excellent dray road throughout. At the entrance of the valley, the side cuttings