INCREASED VOTES.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIV, Issue 266, 10 November 1933, Page 12

INCREASED VOTES.

! %", • . ' TOTAL OF £3,191,915. SETTLEMENT OF UNEMPLOYED. (By Telegraph.—Parliamentary Reporter.) "WELLINGTON, Thursday. Net expenditure under all votes and accounts appearing in the Public Works Estimates in the year ended March 31 totalled £1,004,572. Votes proposed for the current year amount to £3,191,915, as compared with £2,458,047 last year. For the settlement of unemployed ■workers, a sum of £500,000 is again provided. Of last year's similar vote only £118,722 was spent. Contributing amounts to this vote are:—Construction and erection or purchase of dwellings, £130,000; construction and erection or purchase of farm buildings, £50.000; improvement of areas, £130,000; purchase and lease of land, £100,000; travelling and administrative charges,' £10,000. Details of net votes proposed for the current year, compared with last year's expenditure, are as follow: — Vote Spent 1933-34. 1932-33. £ £ Departmental -5... 100,000 104,904 Bail ways— Construction ...i 25,700 69,603 Improvemnts and additions .... 310.000 91,250 Public buildings ... 196,100 90.56S Timber eupply .... — 20 Quarries — t3,781 Lighthouses and harbour works 19,700 |4,590 Tourist resorts ... 21,000 14,455 Roads and bridges . 445,000 396,559 Telegraphs 230.000 99,999 Lands improvement 120,000 3S,9ot> Irrigation and drainage 80,000 53,291 Swamp drainage .. 22,515 14,507 Plant and stores .. 20,000 - f4l JO4 Settlement of unemployed 500,000 115.722. JCative land- settlement 232,900 • General purposes £2,322,915 £1,043,009 Electric supply .... 560,000 561,000 Public Works Fund £3,191,915 f 1,604,572 Main HighwaysRevenue Fund .. 1,000,000 870,514 Construction Fund 260,000 141.859 fCredit. ' •Previously included in Consolidated Fund Estimate.

The vote for railways construction last year was £100,000, and the expenditure £69,603. This year's vote ie only £25,700. The main item ie the vote of £33,500 for the Stratford Main Trunk connection, a credit of £12,000 balancing the vote. A sum of £72,000 was voted last year for this line, and £71,217 was spent. It is estimated that £33,500 will complete the line. To March 31, 1933, a total of £2,275,276 lad been epent on the work. The gross vote for additions and improvements to open railways is £314,100. A sum of £109,000 is proposed for the new station and yard, at Wellington, and £70,000 for the Tawa Flaib deviation. Expenditure on this deviation last year ■was £121,774, the expenditure to March 31, 1933, being £1,311,771. It is proposed to spend £50,000 on the electrification of the WellingtonPaekakariki line, £15,900 on signals and electrical equipment, and £44,430 on new locomotives and rolling stock.