✨ Military Roads Quarterly Report
A. HAMILTON
Superintendent, Garran of Military Roads.
Carr. A. H. Russell,
58th Regt.,
Superintendent of Military Roads.
NORTH ROAD.
| Superintendents | 184 | ||
| Foremen | 155 | ||
| Overseers | 546+ | Mechanics | |
| Labourers | Porirua Road at 3s. … 288½, at 3s. 6d. … 45½ | Total … 334 | |
| 184 | |||
| 132½ at 2s., having general charge, 242 at 1s. 6d. | Total 374½ | Employed as Overseers | |
| 4854+ | Labourers | ||
| 952+ | Mechanics | ||
| 54+ | |||
| Additional pay … 169 at 3s., carrying loads, cooking &c., ordinary pay 9468½ at 2s., sick pay 55 at 1s. | Total 9632½ |
One.
4 miles 53½ chains.
11 to 20 feet.
¼ mile.
Building log and sawn timber bridges; stone breastworks, excavating, sawing, implement repairing, embanking, side cutting, levelling and clearing slips.
Completed ¾ mile 15 chains road; road made with the exception of metal 1½ mile; metalled road, previously made, 1 mile; 20 cross drains; 1 sawn timber bridge, length 48 feet 2 in., width 15 feet; 2 do., 9-10 completed; length 68 feet and width 15 feet each; 1 pile bridge 26 feet by 12 feet; 330 feet of causeway, width at base 25 feet, top 10 feet, height from 3 to 6 feet; embankment of stone, length 90 feet 5 in., average base 16 feet, average height 6 feet; 81 yards stone sea wall, height 4 feet; 194 yards do., breast wall, average height 4 feet 10 in., thickness 4 feet; made and fixed 60 directing posts round beach road.
Superintendents in.
Person
Kind Name and Rank of Road.
Names and Situation of Road.
Abstract of Labour Employed, Work Done, and Expenses Incurred on Military Roads under Captain A. H. Russell, R.E., Superintendent, for the Quarter ended on 30th day of September, 1848.
Number and description of persons employed in connection with the several numbers employed of each class being included in the general class employees for one day.
Numbers of Carts employed during one day.
Length of Road upon which the parties have been employed.
Width of the Road.
Distance the Carts have to go for stone or timber.
General character and description of the works performed during the Quarter.
Character, size, and extent &c., of any particular portions of the work which have been completed during the Quarter.
Pay of Superintendent, Foremen, and Overseers.
- Military £95 : 0 : 0; Native £6 : 16 : 3
Pay of Mechanics
- Total £102 : 1 : 3.
Pay of Labourers
- Military £242 : 14 : 3; European £7 : 19 : 3; Native £968 : 19 : 9
- Labourers in charge of Porirua Road £43 : 5 : 6
- Total £1262 : 18 : 9
Payment for Cartage
- £117 : 14 : 7
Payment for Contingencies and Contract
- Total Payments £1854 : 14 : 9
General Remarks
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New Munster Gazette 1849, No 4
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Quarterly Returns of Road Work and Expenditure
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🏗️ Infrastructure & Public WorksMilitary Roads, Labour, Expenditure, Bridges, Porirua Road
- A. Hamilton (Superintendent), Garran of Military Roads
- A. H. Russell (Captain), Superintendent of Military Roads