ENGINEER'S REPORTS.

Inangahua Times, Volume VII, Issue 1080, 28 April 1882, Page 2

ENGINEER'S REPORTS.

The Engineer reported on the machinery track to the Golden Fleece Extended and recommended that a sum of £50 should be paid as a subsidy to the company to assist them in the formation, so as to enable them to get their rock-boring plant up to the machine site. After some discussion it was agreed to. Another report stated that some of the bridges and culverts were in a very bad condition, and asked for 12,000 superficial feet of timber for repairs. The Engineer further stated that the system of day labor in the maintenance of the roadr was working well. The contract of O'Malley and Co. had been taken over, The Chairman said he had telegraphed to the Msnister of Mines respecting a

yiuimou iimuv uj uuu, niiou IIGIU, Ml .181 C the Minister of Public Works to transfer a sum of £1,000, voted forconcrete works, to the Council, as wood would answer the required purposes just as well, and at one fourth the cost He had not as yet received any reply. The reports were received and adopted, and the Engineer authorised to procure the required timber. On the motion of Mr Craig it was mhso resolved that a Committee, with the Engineer, determine on a site for a wire footbridge across the Inangahua at Black's Point to aooommodate those working in mines on the other side of the river, and power waß given them to act Some accounts woe passed and the Council adjourned at 20 minutes past 11 o'clock.