In this issue we present our usual annual record of public undertakings in the colony. For most of our particulars we are indebted to the Public Works Report, which was ...
Article : 5,056 wordsNearly all the undertakings in this department show an improvement over the returns of last year. The Adelaide Waterworks leave a balance available for interest of 4 54 ...
Article : 4,593 wordsThe works in connection with thin department have been of an unimportant character daring the past year. Their nature and extent are set out in the following detailed ...
Article : 388 wordsMuch of the work in connection with painting police stations, which in the past was executed by contract. Is now being carried out by the police officers throughout the ...
Article : 1,410 wordsThe work done in connection with the improvement of the River Murray has been for the most part confined to the gradual deepening of the river near the spurs for the purpose ...
Article : 61 wordsThe engineer-in-Chief reports aa follows:—A survey to collect sufficient information to enable Sir John Coode to report upon a scheme for an outer harbour at Largo Bay ...
Article : 180 wordsThe works in connection with the defences of the colony are under the supervision of the Engineer-in-Chief, who reports that a site has been selected on Section 2034, Hundred ...
Article : 126 wordsThe amount expended on the telegraph line between Fort Augusta and Fort Darwin for the year was £1 873 17s. 9d., and on general telegraph and telephone extensions ...
Article : 33 wordsThe gross expenditure of the Marine Board for the year has been £49,788 10s. 5d. Of this amount £24,365 14s. 11d. has been received back from other departments for work ...
Article : 86 wordsTotal expenditure for the year, January to December, 1886, £64,838 3s. 5d. The works within hundreds comprise eight reservoirs in Hundreds Erskine, Hall, Lindley, Minburra ...
Article : 1,078 wordsThe Surveyor-General reports having expended £3,581 2s. 9d, in closing drainage operations on Mount McIntyre Flat and along Reedy Creek, Tilley's Swamp, &c. ...
Article : 60 wordsThe expenditure upon main roads for toe year 1885-6 has been £152,614 19s. 3d., of which £83,293 4s. 5d. has been spent on maintenance. £60,758 17s. 4d. on construction, and ...
Article : 38 wordsThere has been a redaction of the grants-in-aid to corporate bodies and District Councils to 15s. in the pound, but the full effect of this reduction not been felt, because it has ...
Article : 104 wordsThis department is under the control of the Engineer-in-Chief. The amount expended on roads outside the bounds of District-Councils and Corporations was for the year ...
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South Australian Register (Adelaide, SA : 1839 - 1900), Fri 31 Dec 1886, Page 7
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