PUBLIC WORKS ESTIMATES.

Press, Volume LVI, Issue 10450, 14 September 1899, Page 3

PUBLIC WORKS ESTIMATES.

THE CANTERBURY VOTES. £Bi Tkl«graph.] frSOM OTB SPECIAL COURKSPONOINT.) WELLINGTON, September 12. The following are the amounts which the Government propose to. rote for construction and maintenance of roads, etc., in the Canterbury district, the sums in parenthesis showing the liability 'in eacu case already incurred to 31i* March last: — Roads:—Waipaia-Cheriot (£ for £), Main road, Ashley (£150) £260, Oxford Bush road extension (£133) £133, Waiau River road (£ for £), Ulenwye (£150) £160, Culverdeniianmer Plains, Main, road (£100) £550, Manmer roads £100, Foster's cutting, Ureta(£160) £160, Cheviot County roads £1000, Highbank (£600) £500, Asuburton reserve £I<4S*>, Ash burton (£56) £55, Lyttelton Christcuurch road (£ xor £), .Borough x>f Skunner £150, Arowhenua Native rciad i (£SO) £50, Tengawai (£ lor £), Levels (iiio; £4t>, Mouut CooJc Ulackra' tracks (£214) £260, Mount Cook Hermitage road (*,-.<'/;, £4//, i'ukaki-juount Cook (£642) titHAJ, Fairhe-PtfKaki main rood (£194) tiztA), Pukaki-Omarama (£100) x*oo, Camp Va;i«y (XtCAi), Cieinent's road, Yvaimate (ii'tbu) at&ix, cikevuigWtt s rouiu \Vaimate, Xtov, JVLuKurourbtuouointe o unction ipuu) tivv, BeuJey Glaciers HUXjO, Itoimata Settlement roads ana drains (JciluO) a-000, ViUage {settlements (JsioO) £aO, miscellaneous ro&us and br.ages'(£6uO) £suO, contingencies and engineering (*»tto) *iaOU. xSridges ana Wnarves—Waimakariri briage, Jvaiapoi-Ashley (amb) £vf<a, Waiau bnuge, (to account) £<sOOU, VVaiau X'txvy Dri4ge repairs (£loou> jcSIOuO, if urunui bridge, ltpdira, £150, .Kungitata light tratnc bridge (to account) (£ lor &), Yotks river bridge i£oOO) *!oUu, Mount Cook road (to account) (ttouO) JcioOO, Hooker bridge £V, . Ivock Guily iJridge {£ lor £), £;3, Te JN'gawai stock bridge (£ ior *;), (fcoi.) £si, xc Moana nver bridge (ii for *i) JtJdOO, Opibi bridge (to account) (£3OU) £000, Kowai ondge {v for £), to account (£bOU) £600, Caoai bridge, Iviiesmere (£160) £150, be*wyn> bridge (* ior £), construction (£l00O) *!100U. v Owner public workv-Ashley gorge drain (£o0) £ou, Ashley bridge .proteccive works (*;l6 I £160, Waamataixixi-ASflley irrigation (ouauiticoally to Board) (£lud9) *10b9, Warmakvwm-AebJey irrigawon (£67) £37, Hammer new baths and other buildings (improvements aiad BaaintendiKje, etc.) (*JV& r C£) jt/1672, Waiau river • protective works, Ctoviot £100, Port Robia*ua (grouis) (£196/ £196, Ruapuna waiter supply, Ashburton (£10u) £100, Rangiitata river mouth protective works (reserve £100) £100, Mount Cook road (stable and shelter ahed) (£250) £250, Lake Pufcaki (planting) (£&0) £50, Studkokne Junction- (cattle stops and removal of gates) (£3B) £68, Nukuroa railway gates, Waimaiie (£37), Kapua village satUement drain (£100), Waiinate gorge drain (£2oi| £150,- Aruudd watar supply (£100) £200, Orari i)omain (£SO) £50, Orari river protective works (£2oO) £200, OpiM river protective works (£200) £200, Canterbury Colliery tram-way rails, Selwyn (£1200), Woolston-Linwood (purchase of land for recreation ground) (£ for £) (£IOOO. Total liability, £13699; -*OUI estimate amount requirtd to authorised, £19,211. - Painting Christchufoh Provincial Buildings £160, Court-houses, Ohristchurdj, custcdians , quartets, £400, Temuka £350. Police stations —Christohurcli, new cells and quarters £700,' liability £350. Post Offices Christchurch, renovations, £100; Temuka £900., Lunatic Asylinne—Sunnyside £350. Schccls—Burnham £500 (liability £229). Harbour works—Reclamation Sticking Point, Lyttelton, £300 (liability £127). ITEMS IN THE DEFENCE VOTE. The following aie items -in -the Defence vote —Rifles £7200, tents £1200, Maxim guce £2500, field battery £3000, four 12----pounder quick-firing guns and mountings £2000, spare parts for ordnance £1700, barbette mounting 6in breech-loading guns £12Q0, breech mechanisms, ordnance, £1000, material for testing ammunition £500, accoutrements, haversacks, and water-bottles £1000, telephone connections between batteries £500, military clothing and badges £1000, msdical stores and military books £500, shipping charges, freight, aod insurance £1000, miscellaneous submarine mining stores £12,700, miscellaneous ordnance stores £15,000, drill sheds £2000. Rifle ranges—Auckland district £1000, Wellington (purchase of a<l3itional land at Polhill Gully rifle raoge) £3200, Dunedin (purchase of lend at Pelichet Bay for rifle range) £200 °' OTHER ITEMS. The sum of £1250 is to be voted for repairs and improvements to Government House, Auckland, and £1300 for re-furnish-iag the same; £700 is put down for improvements aad restoring damage by the recent fire at Government House, Wellington. The amounts for Parliamentary Buildings are: Jfew buddings £8500. shelving and furniture for same. £3000; renovations, repairs, and painting," £1000.