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IT-HAWKE'S BAY. No. 9. His Honor J. D. Ormond to the Under Secretary for Public Works. (Telegram.) 28th February, 1872. Road Board Fund distribution submitted to Mr. Gisborne on 26th was prepared in error as to amount available. I desire to consider same withdrawn, and this substituted. Request clause 13, Payments to Provinces Act, may be waived, and distribution arranged under clause 12, as better suited to circumstances of districts. £2,346 os. 4d. whole sum appropriated, less one-tenth to be reserved, leaving £2,111 lis. Bd. available. Under clause 28, I request £911 lis. Bd.* may be applied to Havelock Bridge and Main South Road, leaving £1,200 to be distributed as follows : — Redcliffe, £53 6s.'Bd.; Heretaunga, £53 6s. Bd. ; Te Mata, £26 13s. 4d.; Puketapu, £53 6s. Bd.; Kereru and Aorangi, £26 13s. 4d.; South Ruataniwha, £53 6s. Bd.; East Waipawa, £53 6s. Bd.; Oero, £53 6s. Bd. ; Tamumu and Pourerere, £53 6s. Bd.; Waipukurau West, £53 6s. Bd.; Seventy-Mile Bush, £53 6s. Bd. ; Mohaka, £26 13s. 4d.; Kaurauaki, £26 13s. 4d. ; Papakura, £53 6s. Bd. ; Clive and Hikutoto, £26 13s. 4d. ; Havelock and Paikahu, £53 6s. Bd.; Tutaekuri and Okawa, £53 6s. Bd.; North Ruataniwha, £53 6s. Bd. ; Raukawa, £26 13s. 4d.; West Waipawa, £53 6s. Bd. ; Patangata, £53 6s. Bd.; Waimarama, £53 6s. Bd.j Waipukurau East, £53 6s. Bd.; Wainui and Porangahau South, £26 13s. 4d.; Pekapeka and Patoka, £53 6s. Bd. ; Turiroa, £26 13s. 4d.; West Waikora, £26 13s. 4d. This distribution being recommended by Provincial Council, I concur and ask Government assent. J. D. Ormond.

*The sum of £119 9s. Bd., in addition, applied to same works.

No. 10. The Under Secretary for Public Works to His Honor J. D. Ormond. (Telegram.) Government Buildings, 29th February, 1872. To His Honor the Superintendent, Napier. Your Road Board scheme assented to and clause waived. J. Knowles.

V.-WELLINGTON. No. 11. His Honor W. Fitzherbert to the Hon. W. Gisborne. Sir, — Superintendent's Office, Wellington, 19th December, 1871. I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your circular letters of the 4th instant, Nos. 64 and 65. In compliance with the invitation therein contained, I recommend that the amount available for the Province of Wellington be allotted to the following permanent works within the Province, viz., Hutt Bridge, Tauherenikau Bridge. Referring to that part of the clause which requires the works to be sanctioned by the Provincial Legislature, I enclose copy of the estimates for the current year, as passed by the Wellington Provincial Council, by reference to which it will be seen that the works now specially recommended have been voted. I have, &c, William Fitzherbert, The Hon. W. Gisborne, Colonial Secretary. Superintendent.

No. 12 The Hon. W. Gisborne to His Honor W. Fitzherbert. Sir, — Colonial Secretary's Office, Wellington, 3rd January, 1872. I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your Honor's letter of the 19th December, in which you recommend that the amount available for the Province of Wellington, under the 28th section of "The Immigration and Public Works Act, 1871," be allotted to the following public works, viz., the Hutt Bridge and the Tauherenikau Bridge, and enclosing copy of the estimate for the current year, in satisfaction of that portion of the section which requires the works recommended to have received previously the sanction of the Provincial Legislature. In reply, I have to state, on the part of the Minister for Public Works, that the Government agree to the expenditure of the amount available on the two bridges above-mentioned. I have, &c, His Honor the Superintendent, Wellington. W. Gisborne.