(No. 76~J•

188 7.

PARLIAMENT OF TASMANIA.

P U B~_:L.,; I C W O R -K S

Memorandum of Proposals for the Year 1887-8, together with Statement of approximate Balances available from former Votes and from Funds derived under the provisions of the Waste Lands Acts.

Laid upon the Table b_y the Minister of Lands and Works, and ordered by the· House of Assembly to be printed, July ii, 1887. MEMORANDUlYI of Proposal,s for Public Worhs for the Year 1887-8, together with Statement of approximate Balances available . from former Votes and from Funds derived under the provision$ of the Waste Lands Acts.

MAIN ROADS. £ Detention River to Circular Head ...... • ...... 500• Cooee Creek to Wynyard...... 200 Torquay to N orthdown ...... ·••.•·· ...... 500· Cressy to Longford ...... 200 Launceston to Beaconsfield ...... -...... 1500· Scottsdale to Ringarooma ...... ,...... 700· East side of Camp Hill towards top of Billycock (Branxholm) ...... 250 End of present metalling, Billycock (Branxholm), towards French's Creek... 250' Branxholm Lane (metalling, &c.) ············································:········· 750· Searle's Corners to Campania ...... 300· Richmond to Runnymede ...... 400 Sorell Causeway ...... •...... : ...... -...... 1000• Sorell, via Coppington, to Dunally ...... 500 Franklin to Honeywood ...... '.... 250 North-West Bay to Oyster Cove...... 400·

£7700 = MAIN ROADS BRIDGES. Bridge over Great Forester and Approaches ...... £600' = BRAN CH ROADS. 400 m~~hk~~a:~;d ·:.·::.: ·:::. ·.: ·. ·. ·.:::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: 400• Zigzag Road ...... 200 Pine Road, branch to River Blythe ...... 1000 Pine Road ...... : ...... 1000, Iron Cliff Road ...... 200· South Road ...... 300 West Castra Road ...... 200· Road, West Castra to North Motton ...... 800 Road, West Castra, branch to Allison ...... : ...... 200 Road, West Castra, branch to Gunn's Plains ...... 400 Lower G-awler Road ...... 300 Gawler Road ...... : ...... 800 East Castra Road and Extension ·········································;···········} 800 Leven to.East Castra, branch to Dooley's and Gunn's Plains ...... Kindred Road ...... 400 Kindred Road, branch to East Castra Road ...... 400 Kindred Road, branch through Riggs' ...... 200 4

£ Forth to Wilmot ...... 500 Wilmot Road ...... : ...... 300 Forth to Forth Heads ...... 300 Hamilton Hill ...... 500 Don Jetty to Don Bridge ...... 200 Montagu to Pieman ...... 250 South Road, Montagu ...... 200 Irish Town Road ...... 400 Circular Head to J)uck River...... 600 South Road, Circula1· Head ...... ·...... 400 Wynyard to Table Cape ...... 500 Calder Road ...... 400 Carn, via Seabrook, to Mount Hicks ...... 400 Wynyard to Waratah ...... 2000 Flowerdale Road ...... 500 Cam Road (West) ...... · ...... 1000 Cam, East side, to Moreville Road ...... , ...... 400 Moreville Road ...... 400 Stowport Road ...... ' ...... 400 Emu B'ly to Waratah ...... : ...... 500 Waratah to Rouse's Camp ...... 500 Sheffield to Nook ...... 500 Barrington Road to Nook and Sheffield Road ...... 400 Tarleton Road, via Melrose Creek, to Hall's Road from Hamilton southwards. 1500 Latrobe to Rail ton ...... 250 Railton to Sunnyside ...... 250 Railton to New Bed ...... 500 Railton to Kimberley's Ford ...... 300 Promised Land, southwards ...... 300 Sheffield to Promised Land ...... 600 Latrobe to N orthdown ...... 500 Fossil Bank Road ...... 250 Deviation Sheffield Road at Turnbull's Hill ...... 500 N orthdown to Burgess ...... 400 Moriarty Road ...... 400 Skelbrook Road, Green's Creek end ...... 400 Latrobe and Green's Creek, direct Road ...... 400 Road, Skelbrook to Green's Creek Road ...... 400 Road, Frankford to Heidelberg via Kermode ...... 500 Deloraine to Tonga taboo ...... 400 Deloraine to Parkham, Crown Reserve Lands, via Reedy Marsh ...... 400 Deloraine and Westbury, via Paddy's Scrub ...... 500 Deloraine to Quambv Bluff ...... -!00 Road from Deloraine to J ackey's Marsh ...... 400 Harwood and Dalebrook Road, with Bridge over Dalebrook ...... 500 From Mole Creek to Gad's Hill Bridge, south-east of Circular Ponds ...... 400 Frankford Road, between Post Office, Frankford, and Green's Creek ...... 500 From Glengarry, via Hamilton Hill, to Winkleigh ...... 200 From junction with Westbury Road to Frankford ...... 400 From West Tamar Road to Franklin.Rivulet ...... 1000 South Frankford Road ...... 300 Westbury to Egmont Bridge, and Black Sugar Loaf to Frankford and Wink- leigh ...... 600 Black Sugar Loaf Road to Frankford via Maley's and Cox's Road ...... 400 Winkleigh to Kelly's Look-out ...... 300 Winkleigh, via Flowery Gully Road, to Beaconsfield ...... 300. Rose vale to Westwood ...... ; ...... 300 Blackwood Road, Cressy District ...... 300 West Tamar to Blackwall ...... 400 Eccleston and Bridgenorth Road to Cormiston ...... 300 Prosser's Forest Road from Piper·s River Road ...... 300 St. Patrick's River Road, Patersonia ...... 400 Continuation of Road from Distillery Creek through Ravenswood to Mowbray 400 Piper's River Road ...... 1500 Finger-post to Turner's Marsh ...... 300 Turner's Marsh to Alford ...... 300 Turner's Marsh to German Town ...... 500 Windsor's Lane to Piper's River Railway Station ...... 400 Windsor's Lane (Turner's Marsh) to the Bangor Slate Quarry ...... 800 Doak's Road from Piper's River Road-near German Town into Settlement .. . 300 Upper Piper Settlement at German Town to Railway Station ...... 300 Turner's Marsh to U pway ...... 300 Alford to George Town Road ...... 300 From junction of Seottsdale Road through St. Leonard's to Corra Linn ...... 500 5

£ Ivory Bight, via King's Lane, to Scottsdale Road ...... 150 Kilfaddy Road, Corra Linn Bridge ...... 300 Fro~ Ellerslie Bridge, via Kelvin Grove and Kingston, to Ben Lomond Tin Mines ...... 150 Beaconsfield to York Town ...... , ...... 300 Beauty Point Jetty towards York Town ...... 100 Beaconsfield to Cotton's Hill ...... 400 Frankford to Cotton's Hill ...... ; 500 Flowery Gully Road ...... 400 George Town to Pilot Station ...... 150 George Town Road to East Arm, Tamar ...... , ...... 300 Trooper's Track from Lefroy to Alford ...... 250 Lefroy to Douglas ...... 200 Back Creek to Weymouth via Big Piper ...... 200 Lower Piper Road to Bridport ...... 400 Springfield toward Ten-mile Track ...... 500 Connecting Springfield with Railway (Sledge Track) ...... 400 From Ellesmere to Murphy's, M'Lennon's, and others ...... 200 Scottsdale to Mount Cameron, Kellow's Lane .. ; ...... 500 Lester's Lane ...... 200 Ringarooma to Maurice Town Reserve ...... 300 Branxholm Court-house towards Arba Tin Mines ...... 150 Moorina to Branxholm ...... 1000 :v.I:oorina to Ringarooma Port ...... 500 Moorina to Gladstone ...... 400 Moorina to W eldborough ...... 800 Completion of Road to new Bridge mouth of George's River, including small bridge ...... 300 Mathinna to Ringarooma ...... 600 From M'Kenzie's Gate, Mathinna, to Fonthill ...... 400 Fingal to Mathinna ...... : ...... 400 Yarmouth to Upper Scamander River ...... 200 From Steel's Turn-off to Falmouth ...... 250 St. Mary's to junction of Dublin Town and German Town Road ...... 250 St. Mary's to Picaninni Point ...... 400 From new Bridge over George's River at Clifford's to Mussel Roe River .. . 800 Swansea and Bicheno Road between Cranbrook and Apsley ...... 300 Campbell Town and Swansea ...... ·...... 2000 Parattah to Tunnack ...... 300 From junction of Public Road, Tunnaok, through Settlements ...... 300 From new Road near M' Auliffe's to Settlements, Hobbs' Bluff ...... 300 From Tunnack through New Country Marsh via Burns' Farm ...... 200 From Tea Tree to Richmond ...... 500 North Bridgewater.to New Norfolk ...... , ...... 150 High Sunderland Lane, near Dromedary siding ...... , ...... 120 M'Shane's Road, Black Brush; ...... 100 From Main Road at Bagdad to the Broadmarsh Road ...... 200 Jerusalem to Tunnack ...... 500 Spring Hill Bottom Road ...... : ...... 500 Campania to White Kangaroo Valley ...... 300 Between Runnymede and Woodsdale ...... 500 Richmond to Tea Tree Siding ...... 300 'l.'ea Tree to Searle's Lane ...... 300 Native Corners Road, including Bridge ...... 200 From Public School, Carlton, to Jetty at Dodge's Ferry ...... 200 From Main Road, near Forcett, to White Hills ...... 300 From Nugent and Wattle Hill to Sorell, with bridge over Iron Creek ...... 1000 Coppington to Bream Creek ...... 500 Nugent School at Weedy Hills io Buckland and Orford ...... 300 From Cross Road at Finger-post to Lower Carlton Bridge ...... 200 Bream Creek to Dunally ...... 500 Dunally to Taranna ...... 500 Carnarvon to Wedge Bay ...... 700 Cascades and °£aTsoii's Bay ...... 600· From encl of Ragged Tier through W oolley's and Jacobson's ...... 200 Hollow Tree to Broadmarsh Road ...... 300 Hamilton Road, via Hollow Tree, to Bothwell ...... :mo Fenton Forest to Ellendale ...... 500 Main Road Ellen dale to selections of Cai·lisle, Donaldson, Hall, and others .. . 200 Dry Poles Road ...... , .. . 200 From Redgate, Ellendale Road, to Donaghy's, Stewart's, and other selections, including branch from Rayner's to Irvine's ...... , ...... 250 Marlborough to Linda ...... 2000 6

£ Long Bay to Lynch's ...... 1500 U xbridge Road ·to Crown Lands ...... 200 Dry Creek Road ...... ; ...... 250 To Mount Lloyd and Crown Lands ...... 200 From Upper Lachlan, New Norfolk, to Victoria, H uon ...... 300 Molesworth, Sorell Creek, to junction of Road leading to Bismarck ...... 150 From No. 3 Brid.ge, Derwent Valley Railway, to Main Road ...... 800 From Road-to Bismarck to Appledorff's, &c ...... 100 From Road to Bismarck to Carlsen's and others ...... 200 From Fehlberg's by White's to Selectii:m near Collins' Cap, and branch to Neilson's ...... : ...... 200 Wheatley's to Cruikshank's, via Coady's and Williams' Selections ...... 150 Berriedale to Bismarck ...... •...... ' ...... 200 From Abbotsfield Rivulet to Sky Farm ...... 150 From Main Road near Cooley's to Risdon Road ...... 2-50 Ridgeway Road ...... 250 Proctor's Road ...... ; ...... 400 Fern Tree to Summerleas ...... 400 Kingston to Leslie ...... 300 · Between Margate and Jetty, North West Bay ...... 100 Oyster Cove Rivulet into Crown Lands ...... : ...... 150 Little Oyster Cove to Great Oystet· Cove via Hughes' ...... 150 Little Oyster Cove to Port Cygnet ...... 150 Trial Bay to Selections up the Valley ...... 100 Fluter's Tier Road ...... 100 Peppermint Bay to Port Cygnet ...... 250 Cox's Road ...... 150 Daly's Road ...... , .. 250 Gardner'~ Bay to Heenan's ...... 300 Guy's Road near Lovett ...... _...... 400 Woodcock Road near Lovett ...... - ...... 250 Golden Valley Road to Lovett ...... 300 Scanlon's Road from Agnes Rivulet ...... 200 Port Cygnet to Lymington ...... 400 Lymington to Back Settlement ...... 250 Lymington to Petchey's Bay ...... 200 Wattle Grove Road near Lovett ...... 200 Silver Hill Road to Roberts' ...... · ...... 400 Cradoc Hill to Sandfly ...... '...... 200 Cradoc Hill Settlement to Cradoc Township ...... 100 Sandfly Rivulet ...... 100 Nicholl's Rivulet Road, Oyster Cove ...... 350 Irish Town Road ...... 400 Upper H uon Road ...... 400 Mountain River Road ...... 150 Upper Mountain River Settlements to Main Road ...... 400 Mountain River Bridge to Upper Huon ...... ; ...... 300 Baker's Creek Settlement ...... 200 Newbon's Road to Baker's Creek ...... , ...... 100 Road vicinity of Kallo's Creek, Upper H non ...... 100 Crabs tick to Baker's Creek ...... 200 From Main Huon Road at Vince's to Mountain River Range ...... 100 Black B1·idge into Crown land ...... 100 Sandfly to Allen's 'Rivulet ...... 150 Leslie to Roberts' ...... 200 From Main Huon Road at Cooney's to the North West Bay River ...... 100 Road through Parsons' to Mountain River Bridge to Walton's Track ...... 100 Road Taylor's Bay, Bruni Island, to Selections and Crown Land ...... 200 Huon Valley to Settlements ...... 250 Huon Bridge to She-oak Hills ...... 500 Swamp Road ...... 200 New Road, Franklin ...... 650 Lower Jackson's Road ...... 200 Chitty's Road ...... 250 Castle Forbes' Bay Road ...... 250 M'Mahon's Road Extension ...... 150 Doodv's Road ...... , ...... , ...... 250 Donnelly's Road ...... 200 Arve Valley Road ...... 200 Hyndes' Road ...... ·...... 200 Burgess' Road ...... 200 Robinson's Road ...... 200 Honeywood to Cairns' Bay ...... 400 7

£ Surges Bay, Esperance ...... '...... 400 Hope Town and Raminea ...... 650 Esperance to Hastings ...... 600 Hastings to Recherche ...... 350 Southport to Lady's Bay ...... ;...... 150

£90,570 = BRIDGES ON BRANCH ROADS. Nelson River, on Road Montagu to Pieman...... 120 Cooee Creek, on Road Cam to Mooreville Road ...... 150 Romaine's Creek, on New Country Road...... 120 Blythe, at Dicker's ...... 800 River Forth, to connect Promised Land and the Wilmot...... 600 Lobster Rivulet~ at T. Richards', Deloraine ...... ; 200 Roxford Bridge, ditto ...... 400 Rocky Creek, Piper's River Road ...... 200 Rose's Rivulet ...... 250 South Esk Ford, near RaiJway Station ...... 700 Piper River at Alford...... 300 Ringarooma River (at Ringarooma Port)...... 1000 Tomahawk Creek ...... 100 W yniford River on Three Notch Track ...... 100 Ringarooma River, for Mail Traffic (Parker's)...... 100 At Evercreech, Fingal District...... 100 Over St. Paul's River...... 500 Bridge over Creek on Road from Steele's Turn-off to Falmouth ...... 300 Swan River, on Road Swansea to Bicheno ...... 1000 Sandy Creek, Glamorgan ...... , ...... :...... 100 Lincoln Bridge ...... 100 Coal River near Tunnack...... 400 Carlton River at F. Steele's...... 800 Nicholl's Rivulet, Huon District ...... :...... 300 On Road Fern Tree to Summerleas...... 150 Whyte River, West Coast ...... 400 King River, West Coast ...... 450 Bridge over River Lune (Franklin District)...... 200 Bridge over D'Entrecasteaux River ...... 200

£10,140

JETTIES. Derwent Place, New Norfolk ...... 150 Hobart Road, at junction with Sorell Creek ...... 150 Wedge Bay ...... ,...... 300 Mortimer's Bay...... 180 Flower-pot, Franklin ...... 300 Surges Bay ...... : ...... :...... 300 Castle Forbes Bay ...... 250 Wattle Grove Road ...... : ...... 100 Lymington ...... :...... 100 Cradoc Township ...... 100 Fluter's Bay ...... , ...... 100 Snug (with approaches) ...... 250 Flower-pot Settlement (with approaches), Kingborough...... 250 Completion of Kingston, Margate, Oyster Co..ve and Peppermint Bay Jetties. 250 Bruni Island, Taylor's Bay...... 150

£2930

HARBOUR WORKS . .Dredging Latrobe Inlet ...... : ...... 4000 New Harbour, Wynyard ...... : ...... 1500 Improvements River Leven ...... 1500 Snagging Huon River...... 100 River Tamar Improvements ...... 10,000

£17,100 8

BUILDINGS. £ Post and Telegraph Offices generally (including purchase) ...... ; ... . 6000 New Police Buildings (including purchase) ...... 2000 Court Houses generally (including purchase) ...... 2000 New Schools (including purchase)··············.········································ 5000 Completion of Custom House, Launceston ...... 700 Hospital, Hobart, additional buildings and improvements (including purchase) 2250 Hospital, Launceston, additional buildings and improvements ...... 3500 Water Supply, New Town Charitable Institution ...... 800 £22,250 STREETS AND TOWN IMPROVEMENTS. Streets, Hobart...... 2000 Streets, Launceston ...... 1500 Improvements to Streets and Drainage, Waratah ...... 1000 Improvements to Streets and for Sanitary purposes, New Norfolk, ( condi- tionally upon an equal amount being contributed locally) ...... 500 Improvements to Streets, Invermay, ( conditionally upon an equal amount being contributed locally) ...... · 1000 Improvements, Forster-street, East Invermay ...... 300 Improvements Streets, Sandy Bay, ( conditionally upon an equal amount being contributed locally)...... 1000 Improvements to Drainage, Formby ...... ;·...... 750 Improvements to Drainage, Leven ...... 500

£8550 MOUNT CAMERON WATER SUPPLY ...... £24,000

MISCELLANEOUS. = Improvements, Botanical Gardens ...... ; 200 Purchase Recreation Ground, South Hobart...... 1000 Water Supply from Lake Sorell, for Irrigation purposes ...... 1500 Unforeseen Works on Roads generally ...... 500

£3200 TRACKS. Tracks, West Coast* ...... 6500 Tracks generally, and Surveys for Roads ...... 2000 £8500

* See provision (£2000· and £1500) under Branch Roads for Marlborough to . = Linda, and Long Bay to Lynch's. RAILWAYS. Completion Launceston and Scottsdale Railway ...... 70,000 Completion Derwent Valley Railway ...... 30,000 Completion Fingal Railway ...... _ ...... 3000 .LVIiscellaneous. N orth-Westem Line- Machinery ...... 645 Alterations at Btations incident to Narrow-gauging Western Line ...... 1000 New Gas Main ...... , ...... 50 Stock-yard and Sidings, Newnham, near Launceston ...... 200 Urinals and W. C's., Launceston, Longford, Hagley, Westbury, and Road- side Stations ...... 315 Station Master's Residence, Longford ...... 100 Goods Sheds and Looped Road at Oaks Station ...... 250 Two additional Rooms to 5 Gatekeepers' Cottages ...... 200 Gatekeepers' Cottages, Hogg's Lane and Dulverton Sidings ...... 200 Siding, H ogg's Lane ...... 200 Improvements, Station-yard, Chudleigh Road ...... 125 Platform and Shelter Shed, Kimberley ...... 60 Alterations Sidings, &c. Tarleton ...... 55 Completion of Railton Station ...... 50 Ballast Siding and Ballasting, M. and D. Section ...... 200 Fingal Line- Fenciug, Eastbourne ...... 56 Hanbury Siding ...... 300 5 Plate layers' Cottages ...... 800 Goods Shed, Stony Creek ...... 250 Shelter Sheds and Platforms at Sidings ...... 300 Approach Road to Mt. Nicholas Sidings ...... 100 Supplementary Rolling Stock generally ...... 6400

£114,856 RAILWAY SURVEYS. .£ Completion Scottsdale and Ringarooma ...... ;...... •.. . •.. . . . 500 Light Line from Ulverstone to Castra ...... 100 £600 = SUMMARY. Main Roads ·············································································· 7700 Main Roads Bridges ...... 600 Branch Roads ...... 90,570 Branch Roads Bridges ...... 10,140 Jetties ...... 2930 Harbour Improvements ...... •...... 17,100 Buildings ...... ;···············································:··········· 22,250 . Streets and Town Improvements ...... I 8550 Mount Cameron Water Supply ...... 24,000 Mis.cellaneous ...... •... • •• • •• • • • •• • • •• • • •• •• • •• •• •• •• • •• •• • • 3200 Tracks ...... •...... 8500 Railways ...... ll4,S56 Railway Surveys ...... 600 £3i'0,996

APPROXIMATE BALANCES AVAILABLE FOR EXPENDITURE.

From previous Public Works Votes, Electoral District. exclusive ef Rail­ Under provisions ef ways, Schools, Waste Lands Act. Defences, Li,ght­ houses.

£ £ Brighton ...... 3160 1850 Cressy ...... 250 130 Cumberland ...... ·...... 3582 1500 Deloraine ...... 1042 8100 East Devon ...... 8540 4120 Evandale ...... 970 100 Fingal ...... 3157 1860 Franklin ...... 1963 700 George '.l.'own ...... , ...... 3271 ]200 Glamorgan ...... 2362 1650 Glenorcby ...... 912 420 Hobart ...... 14,600 Nil. Kingborough ...... 3842 1500 Launceston ...... 7500 Nil. Longford ...... 36 Nil. New Norfolk ...... 8529 150 ·Oatlands ...... : ...... 495 300 Richmond ...... 821'l 150 Ringarooma ...... 3041 3200 Selby ...... 3033 3270 :Sorell ...... 3894 1650 Wellington ...... ' ...... 6402 9626 Westbury ...... 666 5921 West Devon ...... 2474 9174 £84,549 £56,071

WILLIAM THOMAS STRUTT, GOVERNMENT PRINTER, TASMA.NIA