126

Weighing Machine ... ... ... ... 11 0 0
Lock-up at Riverton ... ... ... 172 3 6
Deepening Channel and making road to
Dunedin Jetty, including Dredge ... 312 17 7
Clutha Punt ... ... ... ... ... 4 10 8
Hospital Addition ... ... ... ... 292 3 3
Superintendent's Office-Addition ... 238 13 0
Survey ... ... ... ... ... ... 276 14 0
Government Offices Invercargill ... 148 0 0
Powder Magazine ... ... ... ... 272 10 0
Fencing Invercargill Cemetery ... 100 0 0
Repairs, Painting, &c., Buildings ... 159 2 7
Oamaru Landing Place ... ... ... 190 13 0
Building Tanks, New River ... ... 4 2 2
Dunedin Gaol (New) ... ... ... 1972 10 0
Works not specially voted ... ... 1524 12 4
Improvements &c. ... ... ... ... 109 10 5
Clutha Coal Works ... ... ... 1666 13 4
Stockyard, &c., Clutha Ferry ... ... 150 0 0
Improvements at Toi Toies ... ... 62 0 0
Oamaru Hulk ... ... ... ... 1222 12 6
Immigrants' Barracks at Campbelltown 200 0 0
" at Invercargill 200 0 0
Travelling Expenses ... ... ... 177 15 0

ROADS.

Metalled to Taieri Ferry ... ... 1004 14 2
" Dunedin to Taieri Ferry ... 4691 13 4
" Invercargill to Waiopai ... 553 9 6
" " to Otaria ... 1419 7 2
Dray Track Taieri to Tokomairiro ... 636 18 10
" " Taieri Ferry to Clutha ... 723 12 11
" " Clutha Ferry to Waiopai .. 2497 1 1
Metalled Road to head of North-east
Valley ... ... ... ... ... 757 11 4
Metalled Road from North-east Valley
to Waikouaiti ... ... ... ... 2225 19 2
Metalled Road to Port Chalmers ... 820 18 10
" " in Port Chalmers ... 202 17 6
" " Track to Blueskin ... 345 10 8
Anderson's Bay Road ... ... ... 550 0 0
Road in Saddlehill District ... ... 115 14 0
Road between Taieri River and Taieri 114 0 0
Main Road direction of Village Reserve,
Clutha ... ... ... ... ... 23 10 0
Kaikorai Mill to Upper Taieri Ferry .. 143 14 5
Dray Track to Oamaru ... ... ... 159 12 10
Invercargill to Riverton-Horse Track
to New River Ferry ... ... ... 768 7 10
Invercargill to Wallace Town ... ... 2005 0 7
" " to Campbelltown ... 1226 9 6
" " to Ryal Bush ... ... 266 16 5
Dunedin to West Taieri ... ... 267 11 2
Main Streets, Invercargill ... ... 311 5 7
Portobello by Anderson's Bay ... ... 276 13 4
Road to and improving entrance to
Waihola Lake ... ... ... ... 20 0 0
North-east Valley to Timber District ... 326 10 11
From Sheep Reserve and Wanaka Lake 88 2 0
Shag Valley to Maniototo ... ... 75 4 5
Waikouaiti to Oamaru ... ... ... 31 7 5
Surveys ... ... ... ... ... 5700 0 0
School and Schoolmasters' Houses.. 500 0 0
Harbour and Pilot Establishment .. 1472 0 0
Steam Subsidies ... ... ... ... 3975 0 0
Immigration ... ... ... ... 18,575 0 0
Constabulary ... ... ... ... 1465 0 0
Land Office-Salaries &c. ... ... 2385 0 0
Other Payments ... ... ... ... 4307 0 0

£74,860 14 11

Under the Roads Department, there are at
the present moment 398 men on day wages,
exclusive of contract, employed all over the
country; and I trust that at the conclusion
of the summer an amount of progress will have
been made, altogether unprecedented in years
gone by. The unusually long and severe
winter has very greatly retarded the operations
of the department in question; a glance, how-
ever, at the works which have been com-
pleted and are under way, will suffice to show
that we are not idle.

In the North, the sum of £500, contributed
by the settlers, is being supplemented by a
similar sum on the part of the Government,
in forming a road in the interior up the
valley of the Waitaki. A road has been con-
structed down the cliff from the township of
Oamaru to the beach. A substantial stone
bridge is also about to be constructed in that
town. The contribution of the settlers to the
extent of £400 has also been supplemented by
the Government with a like sum, and a road
is being made up the Shag Valley into the
interior.

A number of bridges and other improve-
ments are in progress along the whole line of
road from Oamaru to Blueskin; while the
metalled horse-track from Blueskin into
Dunedin, by way of the Port Chalmers road,
is very far advanced towards completion.
The main road from Dunedin to Port Chal-
mers will, I trust, be completed and metalled
during the present summer,-assuming, of
course, that you will vote the necessary funds,
and that sufficient labour can be had.

A very fine road has been commenced from
the bridge at the Water of Leith towards the
town. In the course of a month this
into ten-acre allotments, which, why the
for sale, will no doubt realise at least £5 an
acre. I would strongly urge that this line
should be carried right through to Blueskin
at once; it will open up a district for settle-
ment which will yield a very large sum to the
revenue, and will surmount the only existing
obstacle to driving a carriage from the
the Waitangi to the Waiau. The road from
Dunedin to Half-way Bush has, in accordance
with a report of the Civil Engineer, been
abandoned as the main road to the West Taieri
and Central Districts: nevertheless, as it
affects a large number of settlers in the Half-
way Bush District, and is the only available
outlet to the Silver Stream and North Taieri
Districts, I deem it to be only fair that the
Government should at all events render it
passable, which during the late winter it was
not. Accordingly, with this view a sum of
£500 is now being expended on this line: a
further vote, however, will be required in
order to make much impression upon it.

A metalled road has been made to Ander-
son's Bay and the Ocean Beach, and the con-
tinuation of the line through the Peninsula to
Portobello is being proceeded with.

Proceeding southward from Dunedin, I need
not point out to the rapid progress which
is being made with the road over Saddle Hill:
every effort is being made to have the line
metalled as far as Scroggs' Creek before the
ensuing winter sets in,-in which I sincerely
trust we shall be successful. I trust, also,
that during the present summer the main line
will be complete from the Taieri Ferry to
Waihola, and that four or five miles on that
part of the road from the head of the Lake
through the Tokomairiro Plain, where the
principal traffic passes, will be metalled.

By the beginning of April, there will be a
paddle steamer on the Taieri River, which will
keep up a daily communication between
Scroggs' Creek and the head of Waihola Lake.

On the Clutha River, although not actually
under contract, yet I think that before the
month of June, there will be a similar vessel
out from home to ply upon that River.

In this district, two bridges are now con-
tracted for over the Oamaru and Puerna Creeks.
A number of men have been employed in im-
proving the main road from the Clutha Ferry
right on to Invercargill; and I trust that, in
the course of the summer, there will be a sub-