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O'Neill's Creek Bridge : This structure, which consists of one 20 ft. timber span on ironbark piles, together with stone crate protection work and approaches, was completed. Vine's Creek Bridge : Crate protection work at the abutments of this bridge was completed. Butler's Creek Bridge : A timber bridge of 25 ft. span, with approaches, was completed. Rodger's Creek Culvert: The construction of alO ft. span reinforced concrete culvert was completed. McDonald's Creek Bridge : Stone-crate protection at abutments and approaches was carried out. Little Wanganui River Bridge : Heavy concrete block protection has been placed round the northern abutment. A pile and crate groyne 50 ft. long has been constructed, also 30 ft. of permeable timber groyne. Waitangi River Bridge : The extensive repair work due to the serious floods last year has been completed. This work included the reconstruction of 22 ch. of approach road with stone-crate protection and spur groynes. Heavy concrete blocks were placed as a protection at the abutment. 200 ft. of permeable timber groyne work was constructed, and 9 acres planted with willows. Westport-Greymouth Coast Road. —Charleston-Brighton Section : A masonry retaining wall 80 ft. long was built near Deep Creek. Deviation at Mountain Creek : The approaches to Mountain Creek Bridge have been straightened and improved. Culvert at 10 m. : A small bridge was replaced by a 3 ft. concrete pipe culvert. Improvement 12 m. to 17 m. : Extensive improvements are in hand on this length. 68 ch. of clearing, and 41 ch. of reforming and widening have been completed, and metalling is in progress. Charleston-Brighton Section : Widening, straightening, and metalling on narrow lengths is in hand. Greymouth-Punakaiki Section —Deviation at Sea Erosion between 9 m. 39 ch. and 9 m. 65 ch. : This work is nearing completion. Reefton-Maruia. —Reefton - Nine-mile Section —Murray Creek and Garvey's Creek Bridges : 20 ft. timber span bridges have been constructed at these creeks. Picton-Bluff (No. 13 Highway District). —Waipara County Section: 4m. of two-coat and 1| m. of one-coat bituminous sealing have been applied, and reformation carried to a distance of 13 m. from Waipara. Dashwood-Upcot. —Blairich River Bridge : This bridge, of three 40 ft. steel-joist spans, was completed. Picton-Bluff (No. 14 Highway District). —Waimairi County Section: Im. 20 ch. of cement concrete paving and 13J ch. of bituminous paving were carried out. Eyre County Section : 6-5 ch. of bituminous concrete and 14 ch. of cement concrete pavement were completed. Kaiapoi Borough : 4 ch. of cement concrete paving, and Im. 26 ch. of bituminous sealing of shoulders were completed. Springs County Section : Aim. experimental strip of bituminous surfacing has been laid near Rolleston. Christchurch - New Brighton, via Pages Road. —New Brighton Borough—Avon River Bridge : This bridge, 74 ft. long in reinforced concrete, has been erected, and the approaches 1-8 ch. in length paved with bituminous concrete. Picton-Bluff (No. 15 Highway District). —Ashburton County Section —Rakaia-Dromore : A contract was let for 9 m. 5 ch. of reconstruction and bituminous sealing, .1 m. 31 ch. of priming coat being completed. Dromore-Ashburton: Three-coat sealing has been completed from the Ashburton Borough Boundary to Dromore Station Road, a distance of 7 m. 60 ch. Ashburton River Bridge : The approaches to this bridge have been sealed in one coat for a total distance of ch. Ashburton Borough : 78| ch. of three-coat sealing has been completed. Geraldine County Section : The approaches to Cooper's Creek, Waihi River, and Waihi Creek Bridges have been surfaced with mixed-in-place bituminous pavement for a total distance of 7 ch. Opihi River to Timarn Borough Boundary —Levels County Section : 7m. 65 ch. of three-coat sealing has been completed. Ashburton-Staveley.—A reinforced-concrete culvert of 8 ft. span has been constructed near Springburn. Picton-Bluff (No. 16 Highway District). —Waikouaiti County Section—Waitati-Merton : Contracts were carried out for the bituminous surfacing of the whole of this section. Merton-Palmerston Section: The reformation and widening of the road northward from the old Merton Creamery was put in hand, and 40 ch. completed except for additional metalling. Waitaki County Section —Herbert-Maheno : A contract was let for two-coat sealing on this section for a distance of 4 m. 64 ch. and 2 m. of first-coat work completed. Dunedin - Port Chalmers. —West Harbour Borough : Sealing was carried out over a length of 89 ch. Paimerston-Queenstown, via Becks. —Maniototo County Section : River-channel clearing and stopbank erection for the protection of the Kyeburn River Bridge were carried out. Lake County Section : A concrete arch retaining-wall, pierced by two 3 ft. culverts, was constructed to replace the Swiftburn bridge. The height of the wall is 45 ft. and the crest length 60 ft. The approaches for a total length of 20 ch. were widened and regraded. Two 3 ft. culverts were installed at Lake Hayes to replace a small bridge. Timaru-Queenstown, via Lindis Pass. —Vincent County Section : The construction of Black Bridge over the Lindis River near Morven Hills was completed. Reconstruction work in Lindis Pass, principally widening, was carried out over a length of 1 m. 19 ch., 25 ch. of which has been metalled. 9—D. 1. I

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