PUBLIC WORKS.

New Zealand Mail, Issue 1191, 28 December 1894, Page 42

PUBLIC WORKS.

EXPENDITURE OF £18,609 AUTHORISED.

As a result of the Cabinet meetings held this week expenditure on public works has been authorised as follows :

Newman-Stirling road (southern end of Forty-mile Bush), £300; Te Kuiti-Awakino road, .£ISOO ; Mimi-Mangaroa road (Taranaki), .£300; Warkworth-Awanui road, £1100; Wainuioru - East Coast road (Wairarapa South), .£300; EketahunaParkville road, .£500; Hamilton bridge, £400; Tisbury-Waimatua (Southland), .£300; Clifton to Seaward Bush road (Southland), £3OO ; Southland roads and Sto wart Island, .£7OO ; improvements to Wanganui river, £1150; Kanieri Forks and Lake, £700; Akaroa roads, £300; East road (Taranaki), .£539 ; Coromandol road to Cape Colville, Euaotunu and Mercury Bay, £835 ; Roads, Hiku-taia-Waihi, £965 ; Millerton road (Nelson), £250 ; Kokatahi bridge (Westland), £250 ; Arrowtown to Macetown road, £6OO ; North Island Trunk Railway : Cooperative works extension and surveys (Makohine station), £2300; Kamo-llikurangi railway extension, traffic maintenance and equipment of line, £495; Timaru police station (repairs), £275 ; Otago Central railway (traffic maintenance and equipment of Hyde station), £1000; Hawera post-office and additions to courthouse, £IOOO ; Makuri-Ponga-roa road (Wellington), £1000; OpanakiHokianga road, £1000; Karamea-Whauga- * peka road (Nelson), £250.

NEW GAOL FOR DUNEDIN. I It was resolved in Cabinet on Monday to proceed with, the erection of new police j stations at Aratapu and Pukekohe, in the Auckland district, and at Waitahuna, in I Otago. The one at Pukekohe will probably be constructed on the co-operative principle and the others by contract. Cabinet also decided on the erection of a new gaol at Dunedin. This work will likewise be carried out on the co-operative principle, and is estimated to cost about .£IO,OOO. The plans provide for a brick building with ornamental facings, and the object is to make it as externally unlike a gaol as possible, seeing that it is to occupy the present gaol site inside the city and near the new police station, which in general design it is to match. Arrangements are being completed by the Public Works Department for making an early start with the dredging of -Nelson Harbour, which was authorised by Parliament last session. The department is now in treaty with the Westport and Greymouth Harboxir Boards for the hire of a suitable dredging plant. Mr Wilson, resident engineer at Wellington, is to have charge of the dredging operations.