ROADS AND BRIDGES.
We avail ourselves of the earliest opportunity to present to our country readers the very elaborate report of the Chief Inspector of Roads, read at the last meeting of the Central Board. We are induced to do so that members of the various District Councils may have time to consider it, and that their Chairmen may be prepared to discuss its recommendations at the proper time, and to give the Board and the public the benefit of any additional information which they derive from their local knowledge:—
To the Commissioners of the Central Board of Main Roads.
Gentlemen—The close of the year 1855 having arrived, I submit a report of what has been done in the operative department during that period on those portions of the main roads of the province over which the works have been especially carried on; …
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The Kooringa and Port Wakefield Line is in length about 60 miles, passing in its course by Mintaro and Leasingham, at which last-named point it crosses the North-Western or Clare Branch. About three years since the Board made a considerable grant to the Patent Copper Company, or their predecessors, to be laid out in repairs and improvements on this road; the which sum was expended in a judicious and workmanlike manner, though the amount granted did not cover the whole cost of the works done by the Company. Since that period the Board have not been parties to any further outlay on the line, but the sum of £598 2s. has been paid over, during the past year, to the Company, in discharge of the grant alluded to…