MAIN HIGHWAYS.

Auckland Star, Volume LXII, Issue 260, 3 November 1931, Page 5

MAIN HIGHWAYS.

COST OF NEW WORKS.

AUCKLAND PROVINCE VOTES

COMPARISONS WITH LAST YEAH.

Appropriations for the construction and improvement of main highways throughout New Zealand, as proposed in the Public Works Estimates, are less by £390,000 than those provided in the estimates for the previous _ year. The vote for the current year is £540,000, as against £930,000 voted last year, of which £757,906 was expended.

For the maintenance of, main highways the vote is £1,300,000 —£72,000 more than was voted last year, when the actual expenditure under this heading was £1,091,362 The Main Highways Board proposes to make a number of free grants from the construction fund, but most of the votes to highway districts are to be in the form of subsidies, ranging from £1 for £1 to £5 for £1.

For the No. 1 highway district (Auckland North) the vote is £48,756, against £60,679 last year. For the No. 2 district. (Auckland South) £100,687 is voted (£99,933). In the Tauranga district £15,136 will be expended, and in the Gisborne • district £58,305. For the Auckland-Wellington (via Taranaki) route there are votes of £9137 in the King Country district, £5130 in the Taranaki district, £18,132 in the Wanganui district,, and £32,512 in the Wellington West district.

A sum of £4000 for the National Park-Taupo road is voted in the King Country district, and . £8715 for the Bulls-Taumarunui road in the Wanganui district.