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APPENDIX C. SCHEDULE of Railway Contracts current on the 1st April, 1886, and Contracts entered into by the Public Works Department during the Year ended 31st March, 1887.

Date of Contract. Lines of Railway and Branches. Name of Contract. p Length Length of ticulars. Contract- Contract. Name of Contractor. Contract to be completed. Date Contract was completed. Amount of Contract. Remarks. April 20, 1885 Main Trunk Line, Mar- 1 ton-Te Awamutu .. Ditto Porewa F. &P.L. M. ch. Ik. 12 54 0 M.ch. Ik. 1 30 0 J. A. Johnston April 11, 1886 Mar. 12, 1887 £ s. d. 27,300 0 0 I Contract assigned to Bell and Howe, 26th September, 1885. 30, . Aug. 14, „ Aug. 21, 1886 Sept. 10, „ Dec. 13, „ March 10, 1887 „ 26, „ Punui Poro-o-taroa Tunnel Hunterville Te Kuiti Punui Station-buildings Waifceti .. Kaipara Formation F. & P.L. 15 2 9 1 34 0 5 57 0 10 59 40 1 10 0 Isaac Coates .. J. J. O'Brien Jesse Coates Coates and Metcalfe G. T. Worthington J. and A. Anderson Hugh Fulton .. April 13, „ Aug. 11, 1887 June 19, „ Feb. 7, » 28,920 8 3 46,849 0 0 14,242 14 8 17,273 13 0 647 0 0 57,858 17 0 6,875 4 8 0 62 0 0 60 0 Extension North of Auckland H a m i 11 o n - Grahamstown — Hamilton-Te Aroha F. & P.L. Formation 8 53 0 4 12 0 0 25 0 Feb. 17, „ Dec. 10, 1888 Oct. 22, 1887 April 7, 1885 Feb. 17, 1886 Aug. 3, 1885 Te Aroha Te Aroha Station-buildings Hikutaia F. & P.L. 12 25 0 2 41 0 J. Livingstone W. Cameron Larkins and O'Brien .. Feb. 2, 1886 April 26, „ Jan. 28, 1887 May 12,1886 May 27, 1886 7,373 17 0 1,874 4 0 10,879 9 0 Jan. 4, 1887 March 19 „ G r a h a m s town - Te Aroha Ditto Auckland-Rotorua .. Ohinemuri Ngatira .. Formation F., P.L., & Bldgs. F. & P.L. 8 25 0 6 15 0 8 0 0 0 50 0 Irvine and Heath Daniel Fallon Oct. 29, „ June 11, 1888 3,973 8 0 34,785 14 2 May 15, 1885 March 23, 1886 Oct. 19, „ Nov. 6, „ Dec. 10 „ Napier-Palmerston .. Tamaki Woodviile Station- fencing .. Woodville Manawatu Gorge Tamaki and Woodville Station buildings Opaki Station-buildings Mangamahoe Wi Waka.. Cottages, Wi Waka Section Moturoa Goods-shed, Moturoa Section Bridge over Arahura River .. Freight on Bridge Material, Wellington to Hokitika .. Dashwood Painting Hurunui Bridge .. Mount Somers Extension .. 13 43 28 1 10 0 Mullenger and Brett .. McDonald and Harris .. Scally and McGrath .. Jones and Peters Munro Brothers Feb. 8, 1887 April 29, 1886 Jan. 9, 1887 Oct. 23, 1888 Feb. 18, 1887 July '5,1886 35,550 0 0 143 2 6 3,319 16 8 45,156 3 1 1,675 0 0 (Contract assigned to Henderson, Wratt, & Sidey, 18th December, 1887. Formation 1 41 60 4 32 0 * * * Feb. 19, „ June 30, „ Aug. 23, „ Oct. 25, „ May 18, 1885 Jan. 19, 1886 Aug. 30, „ Feb. 18, 1887 Wellington-Woodville P.L. F. & P.L. 3 72 0 6 15 0 0 28 0 0 50 0 Wriglejr and Rose John Shanahan Martin Danaher Wrigley and Rose George J. Newman George Cliff .. McKenzie and O'Connor J. H. Cock May 17, 1886 Sept. 21, „ Aug. 23, 1888 Dec. 9, 1886 Nov. 15, 1885 March 29, 1886 Feb. 28, 1888 March 16, 1887 Oct. 30, 1886 Jan. 13, 1887 1,742 13 6 2,071 0 0 60,500 0 0 410 0 0 8,990 0 0 665 18 0 7,160 12 0 219 12 0 New Plymouth-Foxton F. & P.L. 2 34 0 1 37 0 Jan. 13,1887 April 28, „ April 29, 1886 Greymouth-Hokitika July 9, 1884 March 19, 1886 April 24, „ Picton Southwards .. Hurunui-Waipara Upper Ashburton Branch Formation P., P.L., & Station 3 40 0 0 75 0 0 22 0 Parker and Maddock .. W. A. Taylor Winsley and Bignell July 9, 1886 May 17, „ Aug. 13, „ May 18, 1886 Sept. 10, „ 17,746 6 8 365 0 0 2,245 10 7