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Dee Creek, Omanu Creek, and at Ten-mile Creek bridges have been redecked and new handrail systems erected. Section of highway from Inangahua Camp to Inangahua Junction Post-office has been resealed. Four-mile Creek water-drive approaches have been completed. Island Creek Bridge in reinforced concrete and approaches have been completed. Bituminous mix surfacing, Buller Bridge, has been completed and has proved very satisfactory. Length, 1,040 ft., by 12 ft. wide. One additional cottage was erected for surfaceman's accommodation at Inangahua <}amp. Two cottages were re-erected, replacing cottages to be removed from railway reserve .at Buller. Work has been started on improvements at Windy Point, but a major slip has developed. Two D 8 bulldozers were engaged on clearing, and road was blocked at intervals during March. No. 55 State Highway, Inangahua Junction - Greymouth. —Sealed section of highway from Inangahua Junction - railway-station and through Cronadun Township has been resealed. The creek deviation at York Creek No. 2 has been completed, the old bridge dismantled, and a temporary bridge at new higher level has been erected. Building up of approaches is in hand. York Creek Bridge No. 3 replaced by 32 lineal feet of 36-in.-diameter H.P. culvert. York Creek Bridge No. 1 replaced by 32 lineal feet of 18-in.-diameter H.P. culvert. Preparation for sealing the section of highway from Reefton-Waitahu has been completed, and contract for sealing this section is 95 per cent, complete. Length of new seal is 2 miles 37 chains. Balance of section from Waitahu Bridge to Cronadun—i.e., 3 m. 63 ch. to 6 m. 73 ch. —is 85 per cent, complete from 5 m. to 6 m. 73 ch. Preparatory work for the 70 chains of footpath, Reefton Railway-station - Post-office, is almost completed. The contractor has made fair progress with the improvements from IkamatuaMawheraiti over a length of 5 miles in preparation for sealing. Resealing of 1 mile of highway between Springs Creek Bridge and Arnold River Bridge was completed. A raised footway was constructed over the Inangahua River Bridge at Reefton. 'Calcium-chloride treatment was temporarily successful at Omoto as dust-laying agent on metalled surfaces. No. 56 State Highway, Greymouth-Waiho. —One hundred and thirty-five chains of resealing with R.C. 2 were carried out. Donnelly's Creek Bridge, 200 ft. long by 24 ft. roadway reinforced-concrete structure, was completed. The formation and metalling of the approaches, 15 chains long, in hand. Evans' Creek Bridge : Major repairs, including the driving of new piles, replacement of timber superstructure and decking, also new handrails, were completed. Hercules Creek Bridge : The construction of a new 20-ft.-span timber bridge to replace old bridge which collapsed was completed. Duffer's Creek Bridge approaches were completed. Deviation at Little Waitaha, 48 chains long, formation and metalling were •completed. Mirror Creek Deviation, 26 chains long, was completed. A large slip on Mount Hercules necessitated the construction of 90 lineal feet of half bridge to keep the road open. Permanent cribbing carried out to restore road. Rocky Creek Bridge was raised to conform to improved road grading. No. 57 State Highway, Christchurch - Kumara Junction.—The section of road and half bridge adjacent to the Bridal Veil Falls deteriorated to such an extent that major repairs became a necessity. This involved the closing of the road for some weeks whilst

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