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(c.) Glenealy stream south of Robinson Road.—This work consisted of the training of several stream-courses in Glenealy Valley above Robinson Road.
The channels, which vary in size from 12′0″ × 2′0″ to 12″ x 6″ are formed of cement concrete with a semi-circular invert and vertical sides.
Over a length of 148 feet of stream-bed, operations were confined to filling in holes in the rocky bed with cement concrete. The total lengths trained, exclusive of the length already mentioned, were as follows:-
12'0" × 2'0" 69 feet 27" x 27" 102 24" x 24" 331 15" x 15" 155 12" x 12" 139 Total, 796The work was completed and paid for before the close of the 1917 Estimates.
1917 Expenditure, $5,500.00 Total Estimates, $2,252.15 Expenditure to 31/12/17, $2,252.15
(d.) General Works. The following is a statement of the works carried out under this heading:
Length trained. Expenditure. (i) Training stream-courses east and west of I.L. 2138, Conduit Road, and diverting central stream-course to the westward. Completion of item (iv) of last year's Report (completed), 305 Lin. Ft. $153.21 (ii) Training stream-course west of R.B.L. 2, Section A, Plantation Road (completed), Cost of work, $165.13 Less contribution by lessee and penalty on contractor, $208.89 Cr. $133.76 97 (iii) Constructing tank for supply from nullah to I.L. 1905, May Road, (completed), Cost of work, $270.79 Less contribution by lessee, $270.79 (iv.) Extension of east wall and invert of No. 7 nullah north of Main Street, Shaukiwan West, (completed), 190 $2,688.90