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and anchor store, paint and oil store, timber storing shed, a 
receiving shed, two boatimen’s shelters on the wharf, extensive 
offices, bath and dressing rooms, and five brick cottages for the 
accommodation of warrant officers and storemen. Six hundred 
and fifty feet of wharfage has also been provided, capable of 
berthing vessels drawing twenty-eight feet. The shear-legs for 
removing heavy machinery, guns, and plant, lift a working load 
of one hundred and sixty-tons, and have stood a successful test of 
two hundred tons. A six-inch water-main connects the Island 
with the Sydney water supply, and the offices are in telephonic 
communication with the city. A contract is now in hand fora 
complete electric lighting installation, and this with the addition 
of a boat repairing shop, will complete the works at present 
contemplated. 
Works carried out by the Bridges Branch in 1895.—During 
1895 the Bridges Branch submitted for tenders one hundred and 
sixty-four works at an estimated cost of £95,000 and of a total 
length of two and a-half miles. Included in these is a steel lift- 
bridge over the Murray River at Swan Hill, consisting of two 
timber truss side spans with a lifting span formed of steel girders 
carrying a timber deck, giving a clear opening between cylinders 
of forty-eight feet. The lift can be raised thirty feet clear of the 
highest flood by means of gearing placed on top of four wrought 
iron towers, one at each corner of the span, thus giving ample 
headway for river traffic at all stages of the river. 
At Wallis Creek, Maitland, a new bridge is in course of con- 
struction, designed to replace the old timber truss bridge, which 
after a life of forty-three years (during which the superstructure 
has been twice renewed) is now in an advanced state of decay. 
The new structure will consist of three spans formed of steel rolled 
girders, on rolled girder piers with concrete bases founded on piles, 
giving a deck thirty-five feet wide formed of tarred metal on 
buckled plates. 
The Kangaroo River Suspension Bridge, on the Moss Vale to 
Nowra Road, will when completed form a handsome example of 
