PUBLIC WORKS
WEST COAST GRANTS.
[per press association.]
WELLINGTON, August 10
The Minister of Public Works has advised Hon. P. C. Webb that the following works have been approved for the employment of additional workmen by the Public Works Department on the West Coast of the South Island : —
Nelson-Inangahua Main Highway, 7-8 miles, from Inangahua; estimated cost, £9,000; number of men to be employed 40. Greymouth-Westport Main Highway. Camp Creek-Runanga: Improvements, £5000; men to be employed, 20. Cobden bluff and railway elimination, £15,000; men to be employed 60. Inangahua Junction-Weheka Main Highway: Kamaka a.nd Spring Creek deviation, £12.000; men to be employed 50.
Reefton-Maruia. Main Highway: Widening and re-alignment, £12,000; men to be employed 50. Main South Road, South Westland. Bruce Bay to Haast River: £250,000; men to be employed 50. Gillespie’s Beach Road: 7,000; men to be employed, 30. Karamea River protective works: £70.000; men to be employed, 120. Total estimated expenditure, £380,000; total number of men to be employed, 420. In addition to these works, there are still 330 men to be placed on the Westport-Inaugahua railway.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 11 August 1936, Page 5
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