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Gows Creek Culvert: The construction of al2 ft. by 11 ft. reinforced concrete culvert is in Land. Hokitika Borough : This section, Im. 55 ch. in length, has received a two-coat seal. Friend's Creek Bridges : The highway is being raised above flood-level over a length of 61 ch., and three reinforced concrete bridges, each 28 ft. long, are being constructed. Urquhart's Creek Culvert: The construction of a deviation to eliminate a dangerous corner, including an 8 ft. by 8 ft. by 48 ft. reinforced concrete culvert, is in hand. Hende's Face : Concrete retaining-walls have been constructed to provide greater width on this narrow section. Arthurs Pass - Kumara : — McGrath's Creek Bridge : A 42 ft. span steel-joist bridge on concrete abutments has been constructed on an 18 ch. deviation. Kelly's Creek Bridge : The construction of a reinforced-concrete bridge of three 40 ft. spans is in hand. Big Wainihinihi River Bridge : The timber bridge has been replaced by a structure consisting of six 40 ft. steel-joist spans on concrete pile piers and abutments. The approaches, 14| ch. in length, have been completed. Rangiriri Creek Bridge : The construction of a 22 ft. span reinforced-concrete bridge is in progress. Westport-Greymouth Coast Road : — Dirty Mary's Creek Bridge : A bridge consisting of one 40 ft. steel-joist central span and two 20 ft. ironbark land spans has been completed. The construction of approaches, on improved alignment, is nearing completion. Charleston - Fox's River Section: Improvements comprising widening, forming short deviations, metalling, and installing a number of culverts, have been carried out. Greymouth-Punakaiki Section : At Rapahoe, a deviation 14 ch. in length, to avoid sea-erosion, has been completed ; and at 9| m., a deviation 52 chains in length is under construction. Lawson's Creek Bridge : A 35 ft. reinforced-concrete bridge is in progress. Reefton-Maruia. —Three groynes, totalling 400 cubic yards of gabion work, have been constructed to prevent river-erosion. Owing to the loss by flood of part of the bridge over the right-hand branch of the Inangahua River, a low-level temporary bridge, 60 ft. in length, has been built. Kanieri-Koiterangi. —Dimmick Creek Bridge : The construction of a 25 ft. reinforced-concrete bridge is nearing completion. Lake Kanieri Highway : — Stripland's Creek Bridge and two 35 ft. spans of the Kanieri River Bridge, which were demolished by floods, have been replaced with temporary structures. Black Bridge : A water-tunnel replacing this bridge is nearing completion. Picton-Bluff (No. 13 District) : — Kaikoura County : The Blackmiller Creek Bridge, of one 30 ft. span in reinforced concrete, has been completed. Kaikoura Township : 72 ch. of second-coat sealing has been carried out. W aipara-Kaikoura via Culverden. —Waipara County : 60 ch. of sealing was completed. Waikari-Waitohi. —The Pyramid Valley culvert, 4 ft. by 3 ft. by 35 ft. long, has been constructed. Picton-Bluff (No. 14 District) :— Kowai County : 15 m. 37 ch. of reconstruction and sealing has been completed. Rolleston-Rakaia Section : A contract was let for the reconstruction and road-mix plus plant-mix bituminous surfacing of this 19 m. section. The work was completed for a distance of 14 m. by the end of the year, and a further 4 m. has since been carried out. Christchurch-Akaroa. —Halswell County Boundary - Tai Tapu : sm. 29 ch. of reconstruction and two-coat sealing has been carried out. Christchurch - Governor's Bay. —Two-coat sealing was completed over a distance of 2 m. 20 ch. Christchurch - New Brighton via Page's Road.—26 ch. was sealed in one coat. Cashmere-Heathcote.- -Two-coat sealing was completed over a distance of 64 ch. Marshlands - New Brighton. —1 m. 46 ch. was sealed in two coats. Picton-Bluff (No. 15 District). —Waimate County: Woolshed Gully Bridge.—This bridge, consisting of three 20 ft. spans in reinforced concrete, has been completed. Ashburton - Junction Darfield - Arundel Main Highway. —60 ch. of first-coat sealing was carried out on the Alford Forest Road, and 27 ch. in the Methven Township. Tima/ru-Queenstown (No. 15 District). —Levels County : Bm. of first-coat sealing was completed. Deep Creek - Waihao Downs - Dip Creek. —Waimate County : Second-coat sealing was completed over a distance of 5 m. Ashburton-Wakanui. —Ashburton Borough : 45 ch. of first-coat sealing was carried out. Lake Pulcaki - Hermitage. —Bush Creek Bridge and Deviation : The deviation has been completed. Picton-Bluff (No. 16 District) : — Dunedin-Waitati Section : 8j m. of bituminous smoothing-coat was applied. Waikouaiti County : Culverts were renewed in reinforced concrete at 27 m. 74 ch., 14 m. 19 ch., and 15 m. 28 ch., the first and second being of 10 ft. span and the last 12 ft. Reconstruction and metalling of the Waikouaiti-Palmerston Section was completed, a length of 4 m. 62 ch. being carried out during the year. The Waikouaiti Borough section of 1 m. 41 ch. was also reconstructed and metalled. Waitaki County : A considerable amount of reconstruction has been carried out, the section between Waianakarua and Herbert, 3m. 20 ch. in length, being completed, the HampdenWaianakarua section in progress, and a contract let for similar work between Pukeuri and the Waitaki Bridge.

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