ENGINEERS SPECIAL REPORT.

Thames Star, Volume XLV, Issue 10631, 3 February 1909, Page 1

ENGINEERS SPECIAL REPORT.

The Engineer at yesterday's meethip 1 reported as.under:—• -!- iDelivery. of sfone.or metaL-Thames River.—il have written to Messrs J.

J, Cra%» Limited,, and also the Ford Shiippin^ Company, AucklaiuJ.- \ for prices, for delivering;.: stone swiid j-oaicfc meital on river bank, betweeni lfcopu

and 'Hlikutaia., and the following are

their quote)! price*: J. J, .Craig— rough shiqgjle 7s 6d per cubic' yard, scoria' stone lls per cubic yard. Ford Shipping Co. —Hbad! 1 metal 'lls per cubic yard, scoria stone 8s pear cmfbic yard, stone shingle-8s 6d' per cubic yard. To these prices will require to be added 1 the cost of carriage from

the river bank, which, roughly, for

all distances, will be about 2s 6d per yanth.

Mr Bennett's Application, ♦Tow.ishiip, Puriri.—Mr F. Bennett hia« suV divided his property, .adjacent to the

railway station, Puriri, into a town-

ship of small residentai' allotments, wdth two 66ft wide streets through

same. As to the formation of these

streets, all Mr Bennett ha^s done is. to ;plough,-ft strip-** along the centre of each, from. 15 to; 16 fae^ wide. TOe^e are no footpsiths or water-tables fanned, as should be in: a township. Nor

(are t!h«e«rte. any drain® cut, or any provision made for drainiagp or escape of water. The clause;; referring to the matter in. thd Publio Works Act, seems rathei* inrplred (Clause 116, Seotioni 2), 'bjut if _ taken ovter as .<at preesnt the OotttMsl will have to go to considerable; expense in piroriding proper formation: anvl draimage, especially from, hollow parts, I would suggest ai visit to the ground by the committee, or an appointed oommittie*.

Kauaeraingia Valley Kfoad.— -As .re- | gairds the encroachment of the river j at MbCowatt's bend, recently visited-j by councillors! of. late the enoroacfiments have: been! very slight almost nil. Well bidding, a*, this part, will bt very lespensliivel/and! uinJess. a very long wall is built with, deep founda.-; tions there is always the dianger of its bieing: und'ertnined, or th« wjatsi* woi-kims! behincl it at ita upper ©mL Seeing "thiat the willows pilantedi some time ago at this upper end appear >o be effecting a griaduial safety against further encroachment, and astther© h so miuioh to db witih th» mone^' arailable for this road the wall 'building might be left out, cottfining itfce pre^ seimfe oiperations, in; that quarter,. ;to widejiimg the road on the nisidfe and nlliing the small inside ohlalnnel with; rock deibius from same and 1 metalling road f or about three chains: elm

wideniinig! road at Sharp bend on rise opposite! Ourin's store. "Wlalter Hiaoe.—From, a note received from, tihe lassisiamt caretaker, dated 31st. vflt., I am informed that the Sunday workmen (ftvei-'aging aibout three in numlber) at upper end c f race ihare vierbaHy informed hiimi that after Siuinidiay, Slst January, they will moti come to work at the same rate of pay. From bottom to top of race a great, number of the foot-planks aro gfettting rotten and dlatnigeroTis. I would ask authority to orcfer 200' of these for renewal putposes. Road om Tracik, IBostings Sidling.— Thertei is some track or road; &mn the coiasti, which I ihiav© to report up-' emu, but as I am not), olear *c io what roadu.it- is 'I ask for partiomWs. It was decided to raise- the men's wtages -'to 10s per dJay for Skinday work, and that the Engineer <be authorised to procure timber for tite footplanks.

Splendid progress is being made in, the Hauraki Plains drainage works under the superrision of Mr W. L Breakell, Grorernment draiaiage engineer. '.

The Government balneatogUt is. obtaining information, about the hot sprinisrs at"Maketu, with a view, it is understood, of getting the Government to make them, attractive f» thfe public.

"The poverty and misery that 1 saw in the Old CJountry were * appalling,"said the Hon. G. J. Smith, MLL.C, when interviewed oni his arrival in Wellington, from the Home Land. *T am fully convinced," he Aded "that tariff reform is coming?'