(No. 53.)

PARLIAMENT OF .

PUBLIC WORKS

Memorandum of Proposals for the Year 1889, together with Statement of Approximate Balances available from former Votes and from Funds derived under the Provisions of the vVaste Lands Acts.

Presented to both Houses of Parliament by His Excellency's Command. MEMORANDUiW. of Public Worhs Proposals for the Year 1889, together with Statement of approximate Balances available from former Votes and from Funds derived under the provisions

MAIN ROADS. £ Blark River Bridge to Detention ...... 300 Detention to Sisters' Creek ...... 300 Sisters' Creek to Cooee Creek ...... 200 Main Coast Road, west Penguin Township, from the Pine Road ...... 250 Torquay to N orthdown ...... 500 Railton to Sheffield (Turnbull's Hill) ...... , ...... 700 Launceston to Beaconsfield ...... 1000 Lisle Road to Scottsdale, Tucker's Corners ...... 250 Scottsdale to Ringarooma ...... 600 Branxholm Lane ...... , ...... 200 George's Bay to Lottah ...... · ... ·····:· 500 Searle's Corners to Swansea (Runnymede to Little Swanport) ...... 800 Little Swanport to Swansea ...... 300 to Plenty ...... 150 to Leslie ...... 500 Kingston Main Ro'ld, from City boundary through Sandy Bay (High- street) ...... •········ ...... ··· 200 Kingston to Oyster Cove ...... 500 Oyster Cove to Gordon ...... : ...... 500 Victoria to Balfe's Hill ...... 200 Huon Bridge to Franklin ...... 150 to Hospital Bay ...... 300 £8400 BRIDGES (MAIN ROADS). Coal River, Searle's Corners, Richmond to Swansea ...... 1000 Ballahoo Bridge, near Latrobe ...... 350 £1350 . BRANCH ROADS. Mont&gu to ...... 350 Montagt1 Jetty to Settlement ...... 200 South Road, Montagu ...... 150 Smithton to Scott's Town ...... 250 Smithton to Irish Town ...... ; ...... 200 Stanley to Smith ton ...... 300 Montagu to Pieman ...... , ...... 300 South Road, Circular Head ...... 400 Back Line Road, Circular Head ...... 250 Murray's Road, Circular Head ...... 250 From Main Road to Jacobs' Boat Harbour ...... : ...... 100 Flowerdale Road ...... 200 Wynyard to Table Cape ...... : ...... 300 Wynyard to Selections, via Big Creek ...... 100 Calder Road ...... 400 Wynyard to Waratah ...... '. ... . 1000 W aratah to Heazlewood ...... 2000 · Cam, via Seabrook, to Mount Hicks ...... 300 4

£ Cam Road, West ...... 500 Cam, east side, to Moreville Road ...... 200 Moreville Road ...... 300 New Country Road (Emu Bay) ...... 500 Stowport Road (Soutl1), ...... 400 Branch to Lot east of Chasm Creek ...... ; ...... 200 Stowport Road \Yest to Atkinson's and others ...... 300 Blyth Road, and Branch to Selections of Wamsley and others ...... 300 Zig Zag Road ...... 200 Deviation Pine Road from Main Road ...... 500 Branch Pine Road (to Blythe) ...... 500 M'Hugh's Road ...... 400 Iron Cliff Road ...... _ ...... ; ...... 300 South Road, Leven ...... 300 North Motton Road ...... 600 North Motton Road, Branch Revell's Creek to Maning's Wharf ...... 150 North Motton Road, Branch to Allison's ·via Aldersea',, ...... 150 Gunn's Plains Road, river route, vict Marshall's ...... 500 Lower Gaw lei' Road, Extension from end of metal southwards.:...... 100 Gawler Road, Extension southwards ...... 500 Castra Road, Moreton to Castra Road ...... 200 Castra· Road, Branch to Payne's, and branch to Clarke's Plains ...... 150 East Castrn Road, Main Line, and East Casti·a Road, Branch to 1 600 Ni~~ili~:f .~~~~. :: : ::: :: : ::: :: : : : : :: : : ::: :: : : :::: ::: ::: :: : :::.::: :: : ::: : :: ::: ::: : : : 500 Kindred Road Extension southwards to Counsel's ...... 200 Kindred Road Branch to Jordan's ...... 200 Kindred Road through Rigg's to Russell's ...... 100 Forth to Wilmot ...... 400 Wilmot Road south from Bridge ...... 200 Wilmot to Promised Land ...... 400 Hamilton-on-Forth to Leith ...... 30b Hamilton Hill to Barrington ...... 200 Barrington Road to Nook Roatl ...... , ...... 200 From 'Tarleton and Barrington Road to Melrose Creek Road ...... 100 Tarleton ro Junction, N'ook, and Barrington Roads ...... 500 Tarleton to Barrington ...... 150 Tarleton to Melrose Creek ...... 500 Coal Mine Flat to Figure of Eight Creek ...... 500 Sheffield to Nook ...... 250 Morse's Lane to junction Promised Land ...... 100 Shorey's Lane to junction Promised Land ...... 100 Jackson's Road to ju11etion of Promised La:r.d ...... 200 Upper Wilmot Settlement to junction of Promised Land ...... 500 Parish Sta verton, con tin nation to Back Settlements ...... 500 Paradise Road ...... ·········.•·· .. . 200 Improvements Road to Beulah Settlements ...... 500 Sheffield and Railt.on Road to Back Settlements ...... 200 To Sunnvside Settlement .-...... 250 Dynan's ·Bridge towards Paradise ...... 400 Fossil Bank lload ...... 150 Fossil Bank to Native Rock ...... 100 She!'wood Road ...... 200 From 48th mile to Latrobe ...... 350 Pardoe Gate to Latrobe ...... 100 N orthdown to Burgess ...... ~ ...... 400 Moriarty lload ...... 500 0 Chapel Road ...... 200 N orthdown to Moriarty ...... 300 -Green's Creek Road ...... 300 Green's Creek Road to Skelbrook ...... , ...... 300 Sassafras Road to Junction ...... 200 Sassafrus Road East ...... , ...... 250 Whitefoord Road at Railway Station to Bridge at White Rock ...... 400 Avenue Road ...... 400 Tongataboo Road ...... , ...... 200 Deloraine to Tongataboo ...... '.··········································· 400 Deloraine to Reedy Marsh, via Parkham aml Crown Lands ...... 500 Deloraine via Paddy's Scrub to Westbury ...... 500 Main Road at Watch-house Hill and Roat! to Deloraine Railway Station 400 Black Creek Road from Mole Creek Road southwards ...... 200 \ Jackey's Marsh Road and Bridge over Jackey's Creek ...... 600 Deloraine to Quam by Bluff ...... 500 Early Rises to YVestbury ...... 200 t• 5

£ Westbury via Black Sugar Loaf to Frankford ...... 300 Westbury via Egmont, Black Sugar Loaf, to Glengarry ...... 50G Black Sugar Loaf via Maleys' to Frankford ...... 300 Hagley via Selbourne to Beaconsfield ...... 500 Hagley to Four Springs Plain via lVI'K.innon's Bridge ...... 400 Upper Liffey Road ...... : ...... 300 Glengarry to South Winkleigh ...... 100 Bridg·enorth Road.; ...... 300 Winfleigh to Kelly's Look-out ...... 100 Winkleigh to Beaconsfield, ·i:ia Flowe1·y Gully ...... : ...... 500 Frankfonl to Cotton's Hill ...... 200 Beaconsfield to Cotton's Hill ...... 400 Beauty Point Jetty to York Town ...... , ...... 150 West Tamar Road to Winkleigh ...... 400 Deviation Frankford Road (Blade's Hill) ...... 500 Corm is ton to Eccleston e...... 300 Westwood to Rosevale ...... 300 Frankford to Heidelberg ...... 400 Franklin Village to Cleveland ...... 700 . Cleveland to Ross ...... 500 Ross to Tunbridge ...... : ...... 300 Prosser's Forest Road from Piper's River Road ...... 300 Piper's River Road ...... 600 Lilydale to Second Railway Crossing ...... 400 Doak's Road ...... 300 Paling 'l'rack West from Hall's Track ...... ; ...... 300 Turner's Road, West from Hall's Track ...... 200 Piper's River Railway Station (via Windsor's Lane) to Alford Road .. . 800 Trooper's Track ...... 300 Lefroy to Alford ...... 350 Lefroy to Back Creek ...... 300 George Town to Lighthouse Reserve ...... 150 George Town to Public Cemetery ...... 150 St. Patrick's River Road ...... 200 Lower Piper to Denison Railway Station ...... ·.. 250 Golconda Station to Davis's, Hopkins', and others ...... 250 Golconda Station to Hall's Track ...... 300 From Lisle Township to Lisle Railway Station ...... 600 East Bank Little l

£ Swansea to Cranbrook ...... 500 Swansea to Campbell Town ...... 500 Buckland to Woodsdale Road .... ; ...... 300 Runnymede to Woodsdale ...... : ...... 30J Sandspits through Crown Lands ...... ; ...... 300 Nugent to Ragged Tier . .' ...... · 300 Coppington to Bream Creek ...... 500 Forcett to Wattle Hill Road near Schoolhouse ...... 200 Forcett to Carlton Road near Dodge's Ferry ...... 200 Dodge's Ferry to Carlton Chapel...... · 300 Fing·er-post to Jetty, Connolly's Marsh ...... 300 Carnarvon to Taranna ...... 200 Carnarvon to "\V edge Bay ...... 500 Wedge Bay to Cascades ...... 400 Oriel ton to Sorell...... 300 Oatlands to Lakes Crescent and Sorell...... 500 Parattah to Tunnack ...... '...... : ...... 300 Mount Seymour State School to Five-mile Marsh ...... 100 Rumney Hut to Jericho Siding ...... 200 Wattle Hill Road ...... 200 W oodsdale Road through Wagner's to Palmer's ... : ...... 100 Fr1Jm Post Office, Tunnack, via Good Templars' Hall, to M'Auliffe's .. . 400 Rhyndaston from Railway Gates (easterly) ...... 200 Jerusalem to Rhyndaston ...... 100 Jerusalem to Tunnack ...... · ...... 400 Spring Hill Bottom Roa

£ Long Bay to Lynch's ...... 2000 Lynch's to Linda ...... 500 Strahan to Remine ...... , ...... 1000 Remine to Zeehan ...... 4000 Strahan Road (16th mile) to Honeysuckle Plains and Mount Lyell .. . 1000 Approach to Beach west end Maryville Esplanade ...... 250 Ridgeway to Waterworks Road ...... 200 Proctor's Road, continuation to Fitzroy's ...... 200 Watchorn's Hill to Snmmerleas ...... -...... 100 North West Bay to Leslie (near Woi·sley's) ...... 200 Great Oyster Cove to Nicholls' Rivulet ...... 200 From Main Road near Bates' Bridge to Sculthorpe·s and others ...... 100 Dowsing's Road near Peppermint Bay ...... 100 Peppermint Bay to Gardiner's Bay ...... 200. Long Bay Jetty to Main Road ...... , ...... : ...... 100 Daly's Road ...... 100 Cox's Road ._ ...... 100 Gordon to Crown Lands ...... 100 Gordon to Garden Island Creek ...... 200 Oyster Cove to Gordon ...... 500 Bruni Island, Daniel's Bay to Settlement ...... 200 Bruni Island, from Adventure Bay Jetty (Gray's) to Crown Lands .. . 200 Garden Island Jetty to back country ...... ,250 · Merchant's Road from Ra11dall's Bay ...... 150 Deep Bay to Garden Island Creek ...... 300 Gardiner's Bay Bridge to Deep Bay ...... 200 Gardiner's Bay Road from Bunny's Bottom to Co,Yen's ...... 200 Continuation Irish. Town Road ...... 200 Galleries Road ...... 100 Coast Road to Crooked Tree Point Jetty ...... 100 Guy's Road ...... 100 Scanlon's Road (continuation) ...... 100 Dillon's Road ...... 100 Port Cygnet to Cradoc Hill ...... 250 Port Cygnet to Lymington ...... 200 Lymington to Petchey's Bay ...... ·...... 200 Brabazon to Cradoc ...... 100 Wattle Grove Road to Peachy's Bay ...... 200 Wattle Grove to Lymington Jetty ...... 200 Glazier's Bay to Port Cygnet ...... 200 Glazier's Bay to Brown's Jetty ...... 200 From Main Road to Rourke's ...... 200 Sandfly Road ...... 500 Roberts' to Leslie ...... 100 Hall's Track ...... , ...... 100 Stubbins' Road ...... 100 Maudesley's Road ...... :, ...... 100 Allen's Rivulet Road ...... 100 Mountain River Bridge to Crown Lands ...... i50 Main Buon Road at Vince's to Mountain River Range ...... 100 New Road via Mountain River ...... ; ...... 100 Crabtree Road ...... 100 Lightwood Gully Road ...... 100 Baker's Creek Road (south side) ...... 100 Newbon's Road ...... 100 Sawyer's Creek Road ...... 100 Upper Huon Road ...... 200 Ao-nes-street (Victoria) to Jetty ...... 100 R~nelagh Road to School, Mountain River ...... '...... 100 Judd's Creek Road ...... 100 Jetty, Southbridge, to the She Oak Hills ...... 400 Hnon Valley to Settlement including Roberts' Road ...... 350 Donnelly's Road ...... 100 New Road and extension to Arve ...... 400 Burgess's Road ...... 100 Chitty's Road ...... : ...... JOO Flnerty's Rivn et and Henzler's Roads, ...... 100 Doody's Road ...... 100 Castle Forbes and Crowther's Bay Roads ...... 300 New Road to Settlements (Smyley's Road and towards Hope Hill) ... 150 M'Intosh's Road : ...... 100 Scott's Rivulet Road ...... _: .. . 100 Arve Road ...... 200 Arve Road· into Crown Lands ...... 300 8

£ .£ Kermandie Valley Road ...... 200 Adelaide to Brook's Bay ...... 200 Cairns' Bay Road ...... ,...... 100 Esperance Road to Snake Creek ...... : ...... •. 300 Esperance to Scott's corner ...... 100 To Crown Lands, vicinity Pulfer's Tram ...... 200 Raminea to Hastings...... 300 Hastings to Southport ...... 200 Hastings to Recherche ...... 200 Southport to Lady's Bay ...... 150

✓- -- £96,950 BRIDGES, BRANCH ROADS. Duck River (completion) ...... 150 , at Gunn's Plains ... : ...... 1500 River l<'orth, to connect Promised Land to Wilmot ...... 300 Dasher and Minnow Road, Kimberley's Ford to Beulah ...... 350 Near Mr. Munce's, on road to Reedy Marsh ...... 200 River Liffey, Roat! Bishopsbourne to the Oaks (Pitt's Bridge) ...... 300 East Arm, Port Sorell (Frankford and Heidelberg) ...... 1000 Rubicon River, ditto ...... 600 Westwood Bridge over River Meander Road, via Westwood ...... 200 North Esk (Clark's Ford) ...... · ...... 300 River Macquarie, near Morningside ·········.································· 300 South Esk, near Glen Esk ...... 450 Rose's Rivulet (White Hills and Peter's Ford) ...... 350 Corra Lynn Bridge ( completion and approaches) ...... ; ...... 150 , Road Scottsdale to Upper Ringarooma ...... , ...... 600 Forester River leading from Lisle Station ...... 600 Rive!' Briel (Road known as Sledge Track) ...... 300 South Esk·at Evercreech ...... 300 St. Paul's River (Road Corners to St. Mary's) ...... 270 Doctor's Creek, near Seymour, (Coast Road) ...... 500 (Bicheno to Seymour) ...... 800 Saltwater Creek ( old Road to Richmond) ...... 100 Ironstone Creek, Road Nugent to Sorell ...... 500 Wing's Lane, Constitution Hill ...... · ...... 100 River Jordan, Chaplin's Ford ...... 300 Wallaby Creek, Jerusalem ...... 150 Coal River (I,ower Jerusalem to White Kangaroo River) ...... 250 Over Kermandie River to Whale Point ...... 300 -- £11,220 JETTIES. Beaconsfield ...... 210 Swansea (completion) ...... 1000 Esperance ...... : ...... _ ...... 250 Cairns' Bay (approaches) ...... 100 Woodbridge ...... : ...... 200 Long Bay ...... 200 Mosquito Point, Victoria (completion) ...... 50 Flower-pot, Channel ( completion) ...... 100 £2110 BUILDINGS. Post and Telegraph Office, Launceston, ( completion) ...... 1000 Hospital for Insane, New Norfolk ...... 10,000 New Public Offices, , Hobart, (completion) ...... 2431 Ditto, Iron Fencing and Ornamental Gates ...... 600 Parliamentary Buildings, including Electric Light, (completion) ...... 350 New Police Buildings (including purchase) ...... 3000 Hospital, Launceston, additional Buildings and Improvements ...... 1700 Hospital, Hobart, .additional Buildings and Improvements ...... 4000 Alterations and Additions to Cottage, Domain, for residence for Curator, Museum- ...... 500 Post and Telegraph Offices generally ( including purchase) ...... 2000 Court Houses generally (including purchase) ...... 1000 New Schools (inclurling purchase) ...... 5000 Sandy Bay Baths ...... 250 ·--,- £31,831 MISCELLANEOUS. Lighthouse ( completion) ...... :...... 1612 Table Cape Lighthouse (completion) ·············:···························· 947 Leading Lights, -River Mersey ...... - .. ;...... 600 9

£ .£ Mo1rnt Cameron Water-race (completion) ...... 6000 Embankments and Drainage, Swamp, Launceston, say ...... 2000 Irrigation Race from Lake Sorell and works incident thereto ...... 3500 Surveys for Irrigation, and other Water Supplies ...... 1000 Roads generally, contingencies, and unforeseen works (including purchase) ...... : ...... •• •• • •• • •• • •• • 500 Improvements Formby Esplanade ...... 500 Bridge over to connect Lord-street. and Wesllesley RoaJ District ...... : 100 Repairing damage caused by floods ...... 1500' Glebe Town Board, Streets and Improvements* ...... 350 Trevallyn ditto, ditto''' ...... 100 1 Ellesmere ditto, ditto' ' ...... 150 Formby ditto, ditto* ...... : ...... '...... 200 --..£19,059• * Conditional upon similar amo1mt being raised and expended by Town Board. TRACKS. Tracks and Emergent ,Yorks, West Coast• ...... 2000 Tracks generally, and Surveys for Roads ...... 2000 . £400(} "Seo other Items West Coast under Branch Roacls. HARBOUR IMPROVEMEN'l'S. Stanlev ...... 6000 _Wyny~rd (new Harbour) ...... 5500 6000 ~:~!!~ .. ::: :: :: :: ::: :: : ::: ::: ::: :: :: : : : :: ::: ::: ::: :: ::: :::: ::: ::: ::: ::: ::: ::: ::: :: : 1000 Ulverstone ...... 5000 Formby and Torquay ...... : ...... 5000 Dredging and Turning Basin, Latrobe ...... 2000 Launceston- . River Improvements ...... 10,000 Whirlpool Rocle ...... 1000 £41,500 RAILWAYS. Railway Surveys (preliminary)- · Tunnack to East Coast ...... 500 Further Surveys for Railway to connect Shrffi.eld with the North- VVestern Line ...... 500 To connect Derwent Valley with West Coast...... 1500 £2500 Railway Surveys (ContractJ- Hobart to Huon ...... , ...... 3000 Glenora to Ouse (Ellendale Deviation) ...... : ...... , .. 800 Apsley to Bothwell...... -...... ·...... , ...... 800 Scottsdale to Moorina ...... 2000 Ulverstone to Nietta ...... _...... 1000 £7600 Zeehan Railway- . Further provision on account of increased length of line ...... 22,500 Ulverstone (N orth-"\Vestern Li:ne ), completion ...... 22,000 Sorell Railway-- Working estimates for ·completion and for altered character of Line, viz.- Stock and Equipment ...... £14,000 · Works ...... ·...... 16,300 Jetty and approaches ...... 7500 37,800 Derwent Valley Railway- . Completion ...... , ...... 9500 --£91,800 RAILWAYS GENERALLY. Derwent Valley Line- Additional Rolling Stock (3 carriages) ...... 3500 Stone aprons to piers, Arundel Bridge ...... :...... 200 Overhauling and painting buildings; new platforms at Falls and Derbyshire Rocks ...... :..... 175 Reconstructing pipe culverts ; repairs to buildings, Dromedary and Hamilton Road; asphalting &c. Bridgewater Junction ; fittings, Glenora Station ... :...... 140 Ladies' waiting-room, B1:idgewater Junction...... 35 Extension of sidings, New Norfolk ...... 60 10

£ £ Shelte1·-shed, Falls Station ...... 15 Platelayer's cottag·e, ditto ...... 140 Lengthening engine-shetl to stable spare engine (to be used for Apsley Line) and extension of roads and pits ...... 231 Parattah and Oatlands Line- · St.'ltion Master's house and parcels'-room, Oatlands ...... 235 North-Western Line- · Goods-shed, Dunorlan ...... ••...... 250 Additions to Station Buildings and sidings, Dunorlan ...... 100 Additional signals, Launceston ...... 60 Goods-shed, stacking ground, and improvements to present appliances, Formby ...... 1000 Footbridge, Steel-street to Wharf, Formby ...... 300 Connecting Latrobe Wharf with Rail way ...... 1000 Roofing, draining, and improving office and dwelling (formerly old tramway office) at Latrobe ...... 250 Shelter-shed, Dulverton ...... 15 Verandah, &c. at Rail ton ...... 50 Extension of Sidings for 3afety, Whitefoord Hills ...... 50 Filling in and metalling approach to sidings to enable teams to unload, W:estbury .and Longford ...... ' ...... 100 Two additional Rooms, Station Master's Residence, Evandale Junction ...... 90 Fingal Line- Urinals and W.C's., Conara Junction ...... 40 Carriage-shed, and roads into same, ditto ...... 405 Alterations to carriages ...... 120 Miscellaneous- Excursion 9arriages (to, be made locally) ...... 3000 Fifty additional trucks (ditto) ...... 5000 Machinery ( emery-grinding -machine ; four Ehrhardt's weighing apparatus for adjusting springs; one hydraulic mandrill press with drifting apparatus) ...... 430 W eighbridges for stations ...... 400 . Contingencies for machinery, Launceston workshops ...... 120 £17,511

SUMMARY. Main Roads ...... : ...... 8400 Main Roads Bridges ...... 1350 Branch Roads ...... 96,950 Branch Roads Bridges ...... 11,220 Jetties ...... 2110 Buildings ...... , ...... 31,831 Miscellaneous ...... 19,059 Tracks ...... 4000 Harbour Improvements ...... 41,500 Railway Items- Surveys ...... : ...... 10,100 Construction ...... 91,800 JWisccllaneous ...... 17,511 119,411 £335,831 11

RETURN shorving .Amounts unexpended ·in tlte various Electoral Di,stricts

Main Approximate DISTRICT. Main Roads Branch Branch Roads Total. Balances Roads. Bridges. Roads. Briqges. available under W.L. Acts.

£ £ £ £ £ £ Brighton - - 5343 1297 95 6735. 1460 Cressy - - 100 500 600 32 Campbell Town- 23 23 Cumberland - 2459 12 2471 4600 Deloraine - - 600 2546 456 3602 5720 East Devon - 989 5516 27 6532 8080 Evandale - - 430 90 391 1450 2361 Fii;igal - - 1568 148 2890 2335 6941 3260 Franklin - - 363 600 5913 818 7694 7200 George Town - 1274 2004 3278 1800 Glamorgan - 53 295 1300 1648 3180 Glenorchy- - 226 226 420 Hobart - - 150 1!50 Kingborough - 1003 298 6946- 626 8873 6900 Longford - - 350 28 378 New Norfolk - 47 5343 1015 1348 7753 2900 Oatlands - - 905 115 1020 1950 Richmond- - 240 17, 937 1194 160 Ringarooma - 3738 408 3267 1178 8591 12,590 Sorell - - 2791 4515 40 7346 5500 Selby - - 1518 5657 11 7186 10,300 Westbury - - 250 4499 996 5745 6200 West Devon - 143 263 7535 466 8407 ]3,300 Wellington - 139 6159 239 7437 10,400

TOTALS - 16,496 12,805 66,627 10,263

TOTAL - £106,191 £105,952

Balance available for Works not classified in Electoral Districts; viz.-Buildings, Tracks, Harbour improve- ments, Jetties, Streets, and Miscellaneous - .: £38,200

£ 144,391 ------

WILLIAM THOMAS STRUTT, GOVERNMENT PRINTER, TASMANIA.