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Taylorville Suspension Bridge. —The foundation of the concrete pier on the right bank of the river has been repaired. Wataroa Road Bridge. —This bridge has been let by contract, and a start is being made to erect it. Waiho Bridge Site. —The site for this bridge has been surveyed, and plans are being prepared. PUBLIC BUILDINGS. Auckland District. Departmental Buildings. Auckland. —Alterations have been made in the offices of the Official Assignee, Tourist and Customs Departments. The whole inside of the buildings have been renovated and redecorated. Tenders are about to be called for extensive additions. Tauranga. —These buildings have been completed and occupied, and a town clock placed in the tower. Thames. —Alterations to drains have been made to suit the altered grades of the adjacent streets. Coromandel. —Painting and repairs have been carried out. Gisborne. —Some alterations and additions have been made in the rooms and fittings of the Postoffice, Telegraph-office, and the Native Land Court Office. Courthouses. Auckland, Supreme. —General repairs to roofs, drains, &c, have been attended to. Extra fittings have been provided in the Arbitration Court, and the Public Works offices, which are in this building, have been renovated. Auckland, District. —Drains have been relaid. Court rooms and passages inside cleaned and kalsomined. Inquiries have been made for a site for a new Courthouse. Hamilton, District. —The contract for the new buildings has been completed and the Court used. Dargaville, Magistrate's. —New Court-room erected, offices enlarged and furnished, and fenced in. Whangarei, Papakura, Paeroa, and Waihi. —Small repairs done ; also alterations and painting. Raglan. —Contract let to build a new Courthouse. Tolaga Bay. —Tenders were called for new building. Gaols. Auckland. —The completion of the central block and the building, and the doing-up of the chapel and offices inside, have been in hand, most of the work being done by the prisoners. Gisborne. —The drainage has been attended to. Hospitals. Avondale Mental. —Bakehouse completed ; patent oven fitted up in it. Male airing-court completed, and sheds built. Female refractory-court extended. Stonebreaker repaired. A site for the Wolfe's Bequest Hospital has been taken by Proclamation. St. Helens Maternity, Auckland. —Various renovations, repairs, and fittings have been attended to, and an isolation cottage built. Police-stations. Auckland, Birkenhead, Rotorua, Tauranga, Pahi, Waihi, Ngaruawahia, Coromandel, Newton, Mercer, Gisborne, Whakatane, and Opotiki stations have been repaired, altered, and renovated as needed. New buildings have been erected at Grey Lynn, Helensville, Ohaeawai, Tolaga Bay, Waipiro, Taupo (in progress), Waihi (cells), Avondale, Kihikihi, Taumarunui, and Karangahake. A site for Newmarket Police-station has been taken ; also a site is being selected at Epsom. Piriaka lockup was removed to Raurimu. A contract is let for buildings at Raglan. Post-offices. Auckland Chief Office. —Additions made to telegraph branch. Ventilation improved. A building in Fort Street hired for the parcels branch. Rotorua, Opotiki, Maketu, Hamilton, Dargaville, Onehunga, Grey Lynn, Newton, Ponsonby, Coromandel, Taupo, Gisborne, and Otahuhu offices have had minor works, repairs, painting, as needed, carried out at them. At Waipu, Te Awamutu (residence), Cambridge, Tokomaru, Tuparoa, and Whakatane new buildings have been erected. At Newmarket a site has been selected. At Devonport tenders have been invited for a new brick post-office. Native Schools. At Tokikuku, Waipapakauri, and Rangiawhia new schools and residences have been built. At Matata a teacher's residence, at Kaikohe an additional class-room and another room to the house, at Nuhaka additions and repairs, at Taumarunui altering and enlarging the school, at Te Matai an additional class-room, at Ohaeawai painting and shelter-shed, at Poroporo an additional class-room, have been severally carried out.