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dredge to be pumped on shore. Large areas have been so treated 
at the following places :— 
White Bay (half done by hand labour) ... about 125 acres. 
Snail’s Bay (two-thirds done by hand labour) » Oye 
Leichhardt (two-thirds completed, all by sand 
pump) a ae ne as » on eae 
Careening Cove (wholly by sand pump) ee ss 32 Cs, 
Neutral Bay (wholly by sand pump) ... Sih - (Pe 
The last-named place has just been converted from an insanitary 
foreshore into a health promoting park in the short space of six 
weeks, by pumping on shore one hundred thousand tons of silt 
lifted by ladder dredges and dumped alongside the Weptune, 
instead of (as previously) being towed to sea. 
Mr. Hickson, M. Inst. C.E, Commissioner and Engineer-in-Chief 
for Roads, Bridges and Sewerage, has kindly supplied me with 
the following particulars of the work done in his department :— 
‘The Colony is divided into eight districts, seven of these embrace 
generally the eastern and central divisions, while the eighth covers 
most of the thinly populated west. The total area under the con- 
trol of the department is two hundred and three thousand seven 
hundred and six square miles. 
foads.—Two hundred and seventy-one miles of new metalled 
roads were formed during the year, while twenty-six thousand 
four hundred and seventy-seven miles of road have been dealt 
with and maintained. The most important of the new roads con- 
structed during 1892 are in the north, the Don Dorrigo road run- 
ning from the Bellinger River to the rich tablelands in the New 
England District, and that from Coff’s Harbour to give access to 
the scrub lands of the upper Orara. These roads will open up 
valuable country hitherto almost inaccessible. Other roads have 
been construced to improve the facilities for access to the rich 
aountain scrub lands on the Richmond, Brunswick, and Tweed 
Rivers, and from the railway line towards the west. In the 
southern coast districts attention has been principally paid to 
