✨ Road and Public Works Report
SOUTHLAND
PROVINCIAL GOVERNMENT
GAZETTE.
Published by Authority.
[Vol. 1.] FRIDAY, OCTOBER 9, 1863. [No. 62.]
ROAD REPORT OF WORKS COM-
PLETED AND IN PROGRESS,
TO SEPT. 30TH, ETC., ETC., ETC.
Engineer’s Office,
Southland, 21st Sept., 1863.
SIR,— I have the honour to forward for your information a Report of Road and Public Works completed, and others now in progress, in the Province of Southland, commencing on the 31st September 1862, to the date of this Report.
I have also, in accordance with your instructions, specified the works advisably necessary to be carried out in the ensuing summer, and other works not so immediately needed, but still desirable that they should be executed as early as possible.
In anticipation that it would be found necessary to construct the leading roads in accordance with a system adapted to meet the wants of the rapidly increasing traffic, I have procured levels and cross sections sufficiently accurate in detail to enable me at any moment to issue specification for work on the Great North Road, the Mataura Road, the Ravereton and Wallace-town Road, and the Bay Road. It was my intention also that a complete set of levels should have been taken of the whole of the Riverton and Aparima line lying between that town and the Otautau stream. This, I regret, so far has been found impracticable, owing, in the first place, to a constant press of work in this department, and an inadequate staff to perform it; and, secondly, to the weather being unfit for field work.
The levels of the different roads above mentioned are now plotted, and have undergone a careful examination. The gradients are as good for dry traffic as could wish. There are a few places where earthworks will be necessary; but not to so great an extent as to involve serious expenditure.
After carefully going over each main line, I have ascertained that the drainage is in many places defective. In most instances this arises from insufficient outfall, and although in all cases the outfall has been carried long distances, they stop short of perfect drainage. To remedy these defects, it will be necessary to take careful levels, in order to ascertain with accuracy the points where drainage may cease. Hitherto it has been found impracticable to do more than procure the level of the main roads. To these I
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Southland Provincial Gazette 1863, No 62
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🏗️ Road and Public Works Report for Southland Province
🏗️ Infrastructure & Public Works21 September 1863
Roads, Public Works, Southland, Drainage, Traffic, Engineering
- Engineer’s Office, Southland