GOLDFIELD EXPENDITURE.
The total goldfields expenditure for three years may be summarised thus :—
1895. 1836. 1837.,. Authorised cost .. i!17,1M £»,782 &VsW> Expenditure on worke 15,278 31,921 W. 771 avead ot The oartujularfl of where it wet to endos
the head of prospecting for the last three years are interesting. In 1895 Weatland got £35,731 out ol £72,488 of the total expenditure in the colony. In 1896 Westland got £23,932 out of £61,946, and in 1897 £42,691 out of £80,477. Thus the percentage * for We.stland for the past three years are respectively 46.5, 38,6, and 53 per cent, of the whole. Subsidies for roads and bridges, too, seem to have gone largely to the YVest Coast.
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Press, Volume LIV, Issue 9879, 9 November 1897, Page 5
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