CABINET MEETING.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 183, 28 April 1908, Page 7

CABINET MEETING.

■y.V' '' «' V, "■ ' . VARIOUS' VOTES AND AUTHORISATIONS. ; r Two',; meetings : of , - Cabinet .. were . • held yesterday, the Prime Minister , (Sir Joseph ■ Ward) presiding; . /The .following votes i for railways wore passed•. . ■ ■. ■ ■ . . •' ... &:■ ■ Ngaire-Blackball ... ■ ... ... 1500 /Kawakawa-Grahamstown 2000' Gisborne-Rotoriia . '• ... ' 500 / Waihi-Tauraiiga . ; ... ' 500' V Blehheim-Waipawa ' ... 500 . Hokitika-Ross v ... ... • •. 600 Helensvillo ' ' J ... . 3CGO North Island Mam Trunk ... 20,300 ,', It was decided': to call for tenders , for the following Court Houso, Whangaroi; agricultural offices fit Auckland.. \ ' , Tendors 'vere accepted . for a' ,bridge , at Gulvcrden.; for ; a • post office at '■ Matakoiie; post office .'.at Fairlie; 'post office at Newtown; .for Suiiriysids Asylum additions; additions to, post office; post office at Birkenhead; .timber, for tile Helensville •North/railway: ■ It was decided to establish telephonic tommnm&tidn- between, Auckland' itnd, ~Mbrrinsville, and between Auckland and Kawakawa/, Wlfephonic communication is idso to be . opened- between ' WellUi jt'b'n and.. Waikanae, and between Christch'urch and Little River. ' . :. ' A slim of £537 .was authorised for expenditure on .the Leyin.State fkrm. - Grants totalling £10,300 were passed, in the meantimo, for school-teachers residences. . Authority, was given for the purchase of a gaolsito at Gisbbrne. '■ A preliminary rote of £300, in connection with irrigation,works in Central Otagb, was passea. , ..... 1 . •'■ ' .It was decided to invite tenders for a post office, at St.; Bathan's; 'A sum' of £1000 was authorised for tho new bridge: over the Man awatu River. Mr. G. .Hi Stewart fras iippbiiited assessor fori the Tiiapcka ..County,- illid Mr. Gooch assessor for the AVaihi Borough. Authority was given for the, purchase ofa site for a police station at Sydenham. The sum bf .£IOOO was authorised for.defence works at Auckland; £<1800 for reading various blocks; £12,000 for additions tb opon railway.: lines. ' .'Tenders are' to bo called, for a tnagistrates' court at Christchurch, and-a police station at Petone. . ■; The present scrvico from' Lyttelton .to tho Chatham Islands was renewed at £350 a year for thrco years.