2105
i
4.
on
Amount paid for blasting, powder
"
for sundry services, £. 3. 16 8, Requisition No. 33 of 1849, completes the expenditure
account of Roads for construction, amounting in the whole to £. 175.8.7 for the year; but the sum of £.318.6 was disbursed for labour performed under old Contracts of the previous
year the Aberdeen and Stanley Road, the payment of which His Excellency
was
obliged to defer.
Repairs to Roads, (exclusive) of (convict labour), only amounted to £.9.12.8, Requisitions 3, 6, 8, and 27.
The Convict labour during
the
year
consisted in
the construction
of a pathway from the Sea-beach to the Church and Government Offices,
Sundry works round the
Government
Offices.
Repairs to Roads and Streets, and
Miscellaneous Services. The pathway
was
on the side
of the
hill under the Murray Battery, and in side cutting, and filling; the section of the ground
was
entirely
irregular
and steep; in some places
cutting of 25 feet had to be made, and immediately adjoining
a
hollow
to be filled
of an equal depth, this rendering the execution extremely
difficult and expensive;
the weather also being exceedingly dry during a portion of the working period, rendered the consolidation of the material almost impossible, thus several heavy slips
occurred
after heavy
rains;
however the pathway
is
completely finished,
the embankments to the Queen's Road
over, and a stone channel grassed
made in two portions which I hope will preserve it from excessive injury,