Hawke's Bay Provincial Gazette – 1862 – No. 6

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✨ Public Works Expenditure Report



ABSTRACT of Works executed under the charge of the Director of Works from 1st July to 31st December 1861.

NAME OF WORK AMOUNT. TOTALS. REMARKS.
£ s. d. £ s. d.
Hastings-street— 14 chains formed and metalled, completing the worst portion of the road between Napier and Tareha’s creek bridge.
Payment to Contractor 99 12 6 99 12 6
Shakspeare-road— 10 chains of Shakspeare-road, widened, formed, and metalled, and 7 chains formed over mudflat. This work has been much retarded by the large quantity of soil absorbed in the mud in some parts 14 ft. deep.
Payment to Contractor 369 0 0 399 7 3
Labor and materials for Bridge 30 7 2
Meaneo Bridge— This bridge has been completed and opened for traffic since 1st Feb. and has stood the test of two heavy freshets.
Payment to Contractor 430 0 0 504 4 0
Removal of Pile Engine, timber for extension of Bridge, &c. 74 4 0
Waghorn-street— 13 chains formed and metalled, & the stone wall completed along the whole line of road.
Payments to Contractor 125 0 0 177 12 3
Timber for Bridge, and labor on stone wall 52 12 3
Waitapeku Ferry— As the approach roads to any new site cannot be formed and metalled between the next session of the Provincial Council and the wet season, the road from the old ferry-house to the present site should be trimmed and receive a thin coating of shingle to render it passable for the coming winter.
Sundries 37 0 6 37 0 6
Pahora Road— Wages 3 7 0 3 7 0 Repairs
Awatoto Road— Wages 3 14 1 3 14 1 Repairs
Hospital Road— Wages 11 9 6 11 9 6 Widening approach from Milton-road, about 8 chains.
Public Buildings— Preparations for sitting of Supreme Court, &c.
Government Offices 32 4 7 179 18 11 Building completed and mast provided for wind and rain gauges.
Observatory 76 3 6
Public Wells 23 10 10
Boat Shed 48 0 0 Force-pump and fittings for Carlyle-st. well, and sundry repairs. Shed on Eastern Spit for Surf Boat. This work has been much delayed through the difficulty in obtaining timber, but the whole is now delivered, and the building fast approaching completion.
Napier Gaol—
Excavating Foundations 80 18 0 441 18 0
Approach Road 11 0 0
Payment to Contractor 350 0 0
Court-house, Waipawa— 177 2 6 177 2 6 This Building is finished, with an office for the District Surveyor attached.
Harbor Improvements— The total expenditure for the half-year has been £2,669 16s. 1d., but of this £162 1s. 10d. is on account of new machinery and timber framing to carry it, leaving £2,507 14s. 3d. as the sum expended on the works in the harbor for this period, and if from this, the items for timber, ironwork, and labor on account of breastworks and Jetty are deducted, there remains the sum of £1,591 7s. 5d. as the total cost of the dredging operations for six months, for which sum there has been raised 17,500 tons of shingle at a cost of, say, 1s. 10d. per ton, including removal to reclaimed land, being about 1s. 1d. per ton for dredging, and 9d. per ton for discharging & wheeling—prices which will bear favorable comparison with the cost of dredging at any other port. The cost per ton on the Tyne, as reported in the Engineer of 22nd Feb., 1861 being 8½d. per ton, which if corrected for the difference in price of labor and coals at Napier, would be 1s. 11½d. per ton. Hence, prices of labor and coals at both places being equalized, we have: Cost per ton at Newcastle, with every advantage of improved machinery and extensive operations—say, 1s. 11½d. Cost per ton at Napier, with work on very limited scale, and with gear that was only intended to serve until better could be obtained—say 1s. 10d. That the work has been done at so cheap a rate is owing to the very favorable nature of the ground. The entrance to the inner harbor has been increased in depth from 5 ft. to 10 ft. at low water, and to twice its width at the time dredging was commenced. The piling on the South side of the entrance requires extending another 100 ft. to render the work secure, and the piling on the Custom House side is necessary to give effect to the work already done.
Filling and discharging punts 1230 12 0
Coals 284 2 8
Tools, Rope, and sundries 51 2 9
Boat 13 0 0
Repairs to Punts 12 10 0
Timber for breastworks, &c. 505 4 1
Ironwork 113 14 5
Labor on stone and timber breastwork 210 4 0
Labor on Jetty and approach 57 4 0
Machinery from England 90 17 4
Machinery from Sydney 12 9 8
Timber for framing to carry new gear 58 14 10 2669 16 1
Total 4704 19 7

Napier, 6th March, 1862.

E. G. WRIGHT, Director of Works.



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🏗️ Abstract of Works Executed by Director of Works

🏗️ Infrastructure & Public Works
6 March 1862
Public works, roads, bridges, buildings, harbor improvements, Napier
  • E. G. Wright, Director of Works