ROADS AND BRIDGES

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume 47, Issue 2668, 10 September 1937, Page 3

ROADS AND BRIDGES

THE THAMES ELECTORATE STATEMENT BY MINISTER PUBLIC WORKS EXPENDITURE. At the request of Mr Jas Thorn, M.P. for Thames, the following statement of Public Works Department expenditure on roads and bridges in the Thames electorate since the last general election has been compiled by Mr P. C. Webb, acting Minister of Public Works :

Total public works expenditure and list of works undertaken in the Thames electorate since elections and the mileage of roads formed, metalled, etc.

Name of Work, Colville-Port Jackson, metalled 2 miles 30 chains, expenditure £2027 14s; Cororrfandel-Ken-nedy Bay, length formed 1 mile 67 chains, metalled 2 miles 36 chains, expenditure £8834 4s 2d; Durrant’s road, metalled 33 chains, expenditure £156 Os sd; Hikuai-Whangamata, metalled 9 miles, expenditure £6300 3s lid; Hikutaia-Whangamata, length formed 66 chains, metalled 22 chains, expenditure £lOO3 9s 7d; Mercury Bay-Hahei, length formed 7 miles 50 chains, metalled 7 miles, expenditure £7608 4s Id; Mcßeth’s, metalled 52 chains, expenditure £445 19s 9d; Omahu-Otamakite, length formed 3 miles, expenditure £568 14s Id; Puriri-Neavesville, length formed 1 mile 30 chains, metalled 70 chains, expenditure £lOB5 9s lOd; Rangihau ford, 96ft. x 13ft. ford, concrete, expenditure £284 0s 7d; Stoney Creek bridge, 100 ft. long, expenditure £1445 10s 3d; Whangamata wharf road, metalled 1 mile 20 chains, expenditure £l6OO 6s Id; Whangamata Valley Road-Martyns, length formed 40 chains, expenditure £4OO 10s; Kerepeehi to Awaiti, metalled 1 mile, expenditure £1073; Hikutaia block, length formed 40 chains, metalled 60 chains, expenditure £202 10s 3d; Kaimarama settlement road, metalled 79 chains, expenditure £100; Kauaeranga South road, metalled 22 chains, expenditure £B7 4s sd; Mill Creek settlement road, metalled 38 chains, expenditure £5O; Onetai East road, metalled 53 chains, expenditure £75 14s 2d; Opoutere, length formed 10 chains, metalled 1 mile, expenditure £363 2s 8d; Puriri Stream bridge, expenditure £5O; Taiwawe road, length formed 37 chains, expenditure £100; Te Horete block, length formed 70 chains, expenditure £146; Warahoe East road, metalled 40 chains, expenditure £lOl 9s 2d; Thames Post Office, expenditure £8934 7s 8d; Thames aerodrome, expenditure £1783 9s Id; W.0.R.1. (construction), expenditure £1715. Total length formed 17 miles 10 chains, metalled 29 miles 75 chains, total expenditure £45,542 4s 2d.

Total amount of other Government grants: Hodges access road, £4O, Kuaotunu to Opito road £315, Kuaotunu to Whangapoua £l5O, Otakaeo road £316, Waikawau beach road £3OO, Waikawau south road £l6O, Kerepeehi extension block road £4OOO.

Any other Government assistance rendered: Flood damage (Thames and Coromandel counties) £lOB6 18s lid, W. & 0.R.1. (maintenance) £1694 7s, Thames harbour dredging £BO5 11s lOd. Total £3586 17s 9d.