WAIMATE COUNTY COUNCIL.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume XVII, Issue 675, 29 August 1917, Page 4

WAIMATE COUNTY COUNCIL.

ENGINEER’S REPORT}. , - The Engineer (Mr C. E. Bremner) reported to tiie County Council ioday as follows on the various works in progress in tire County:— Upper Parco r a; Biding.—A contract was signed By a; Timaru firm of builders lor erecting the shed and telephone office at Timaunga roadman’s reserve. The site is marked off and it is hoped to start the work in the near future. All contract works wore, completed at the close of last month and labour has since been employed sorting up alter the late rains, cleaning bridge tiers, etc., and making general re. paiis on Back, Motukaike, and Little Bivar mads. Generally the roads of the riding are in fair order throughout. la wer I'areOra Biding.- —Morgan's i -: 1111 s finished their programme at ; ■ end of July and performed , oii important work when in live lidiug. The recent IVeshot in the I’a.ieora Bivor lias weakened one ol the I rnt'M'.live groins on, ißucrt!i bank. and slight repair* h* this \vii| he made at lit-* licsl Cpportmiiiv. U may also he necessary tr r.’pliut seine willows which w ill],'led off ill the h|e dry summers, Contract No 877, Bower Baivora roads metalliug, let on the 11 tli August, includes a number of lengths of roads needing repairs in different parts of the riding, 'and will probably he started in lice cmirse of a week.

OUiin Riding.—ilorg.au’s teams lune been in tlvo northern portion 01: the- riding for the past week or so and .arc at present removing part of the high hank on the Church Hill cutting to flatten Hie sharp turn at this point .They also made and metalled access to Air. 11, W. Jenkins’ section No. 2. Copland Settlement—Contract No. 878 Riding roads metalling, a tender for which was accepted on the .11 Hi hist., deals with a, quantity of road repairs required in the south part of the riding. The Stream diversion on E.sk Valley road was Rectified early in the month, and The natural outlet again res(ored across the road.

Makikihi Riding.—Contract No. 8G(!, Bell's Road metalling. This has not yet been resumed. Culverts, Idlings, etc. have been iurnisbed on the Hook Road 'Water Race crossings-, and riverba ik pro-t-‘f ti;>n erected on the Hook Creek bed above the Council's reserve' on hansdown Settlement, Works promised some months ago on No. 2 Kohika read, drainage and tdid improvements a.t Makikihi River crossing were recently arranged do he put in hand, local teams being made available for the purpose, Contract No. 878 (metalling) provides for dealing with the western end of Makikihi-flunler mad (Hunt'r to Jackson's section).

i Beep Creek Biding. —Contract No. 872, Waimate-NVaihao Forks road, ami Wainnit‘ South road metalling LI chargeable to Wuihao Biding'). This work is now approaching compCtien and should I).’ out of hand by the Council's next siniug. Gumming Bros,' application (Exeter St) -■The applicants have promised to h!p in this work which will bo I undertaken at first convenient opjc/i(unity. Contract No, S7/>, Deep Creek Riding roads metalling.- A Minsiderahf- quantity of mepil lias been put out a.I intervals in the nn.nth, the contractor working it in conjunction with In’s contract No, 872 according as weather con-

ditions allowed of metal supplies being obtained from tbc river-beds, ‘J he Bailway Department removed guard fencing at the railway crossing on Wainono Lagoon road, and it was necessary to* extend the width of the formation on the east side of the railway line, which was dangerously narrow without this protection. Additional lengths of pipes wore laid at each side cl the culvert and .these were filled over

to make an extended width of 30 feet, which is now reasonably safe for the requirements of the line. The Council's teams have done much important work since coming into the riding, chiefly through! Kapua, Settlement, the Waimate Gorge Ycsberg’s road junction of Sam Green’s road with Timaru North road, and are now occupied on the short extension of Bryson Road, a length of 8 chains of formation in'bank and cutting, A short length of extended 'metalling on Maori Bush road, amounting-to 1.0 cubicyards was also done, ‘by contract during the’ month.' ■ : Steps will be taken To protect the embankment, from 1 flood scour, and the filling fronting Mr P. Hunter’s Stndholme property. This will !be seen 'to when access /can be had for materials to the Waimate riverbed at Hiannaton.

In consequence of the practice of dumping rubbish on the road reserve oast of the Public Hospi-

tal the police authorities have been requested to take the matter up l , and a (notice has been posted cau-

tioning the' public against doing so. Wai ha o R i ding,—'Con.tract No. 873 Stoney Creek and 'Other riding reads metalling. The bulk of this work is finished, stone-breaking still remaining to be clone, which will occupy- the men for a week or so yet. Wallace road culvert lias been put in and when teams are avail-

able'a few extra loads of meiaj woOld he laid to properly finish off the work,- Dog; Kennel Road guard fearing jhas been erected on the sections in respect of wlpch the application was made. Con tract Mo. 876'’Waihno'Riding roads. Portions of this work has Keen finished | in tire .upper part' of the riding, 1 since when the contractors’ (a.tten[tion has hcen given to metalling repairs for which an earlier tea- 1. [tier; hfCb&m; accented and ; w«s of[w

greater urgency than lac immediate' ccmplßion of unfinished parts or this contract Drainage sanctioned on Fcny Road frontage of Ma. Cooney’s property was done eaily in the month and repairs applied for hy Messrs Mackenzie 'Bros, on liable Top road also had attention at the hands of the Hakafeijramva roadman with the use of the Council - teams.

liakataramwi Riding!, Repairs have been made 'to Tc Akatabawa road between tho Slip; and Buskelt and the line was ’in good order when last inspected. Labour engaged for fencing Cattle Creek bridge approaches- is not yet av ail able, lint necessary '.materials are on the. ground by way of timber, netting, eh\ for the purpose. An estimate is given of" the cost, di metalling applied for by Mr VV. M. Boss on the township branch, leading to his homestead, a length ul approximately In chains.

General.--A satisfactory a r i-jmgv.-inent lias been ina.do for dealing with the Gretna Green trees ai a cost of Ul is, the work to Jhe undertaken at an early dale. ( outlaid No. 814 Main Somh road metalling (Horse Shoe I lend south to Waihao Giver section). Ihenoith |,: liinos of this are wi ll in hand ami tie' teams may h ‘ experts! mm th ill the r.iuiae id Hd days .v a fin lilight An estimate is given i.f, cost of extending I.he com let. 1 culvert In impmve the nni'Hi non at the j tiM r i i-m of Highway and Alain Smith toads, JVovisiun Inr i)ii>tnr Irallic has heen on the Alain South road (Brown's frontage) whey * a number of cars were held up at a creek crossing during the recent wet weather. This provision is a somewhat important one, as •hitherto it constituted the only block to through traffle in flood time on the M ain South road within the County, Dog Kennel Creek overflow on A. Brown’s frontage could ’always he side tracked by detouring by the Ferry and Fleming roads to re-junction with the main line at the cast end of the latter road. The r e "’ere two infringements of the heavy haulage by-law during the .month, one in the Makikihi' Riding by. a tractor hauling chaff and another on Hayman's road by a traction engine and traders on similar work to Wifi I owl; ridge. Unfortunately in each case they slipped through without the chance of getting evidence of the Council’s inspectors to enabh prosecutions to he instituted. Levels taken on the Alain South road drain at Makikihi show the avail :il.h fat! h> lie If inches per chain, and further thal the onilM culverlj across the road is not above Hie hydraulic gradient. This impression ci the Health Inspector is perhaps due to the slight unevenness of the floor of the drain where periodical cleaning scour etc, have deepened or raised below or above the the proper levels to the extent of an inch o" so, in no c.ase t however exceeding a maximum of -1 inches inches in the total length oi. -■')

chains. Generally the cut a- a road drainage side channel h in good mder throughout, and amply meets its requirements, imt. il it is souglo [n use it as nn open sewer it would he necessary, on Midi a Hat demine, lii concrete (he invert from end to end on a carefully adjusted even gradient laid but on solid {emulations. The lodgment of wafer in the tallies north towards the blacksmith's shop’ is due to lilting in the water channels cn Hie Hotel I'rnitage for hotter access to lhe premises. This obstructs Hie .passage of the drainage amt diverts it into the metalled way, or causes it, mi the ,slightest obstruction, to hank hack and .stagnate "HR M evaporates, As before mentioned the gradient length is. very flat indeed and should be kept as free as possible on this- account.