CABINET MEETING.

Press, Volume LXIV, Issue 13103, 30 April 1908, Page 4

CABINET MEETING.

At meetings of tho Cabinet, hold at WeUdngtou 011 Monday, t3ie following votes tor railways wore paescd:— £. Ngairo-Blackball 1500 Jvawakawa-Grahametown ... 2000 Gisbonve-Rotorua. 500 Waihi-Tatuxanxa 6(W Bloiiheim-Waipawa 500 HokitdloQ-Itoes 500 Holenerrlte' .'. ' - 3000 North Island Main Trunk... 20,300 It was decided to call for tenders, for the following:—Court Houw, Wiangarei; agricultural offloca at Auckland. Tenders were accepted for a bridge at Ciilverdevn; for a post offioo at Matakoho; post office at Faarlioj post o.lice at Ncnvtown; for Sunnysido Montal HoepitaJ additions ; flddiibiome to tlio AVaiiUi post olfice; post office at Binkcm-h-oad ; timber for -tine Hele-nsvillo North irailway. A sum of £537 was authorised for expenditure on tho Letvin State farm. - Grants totalling £10,300 were passed, in tho meantime, for" school teachers' residwioee. Authority was for tho purchase of a sit© for a police station at Sydenham. - The sum of £1000 was a.uthfn-.ieed for defejiico works at Auckland ; £4800 for roading various bloclos; i'Jj'.OOO for a<!'iit,ix)iiG to open railway lines. Ton-dors nre to bo crdkid) for a magistrate's court at Chri-vtchurch and a police staiaon at P<?tone. Tlm> present ein-vioo from LyttcOton to the Clvatl»«"m Islands was renewed at £350 n year for three years.