THE ESTIMATES.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1575, 19 October 1912, Page 6

THE ESTIMATES.

SOME OF THE VOTES. I RAILWAYS, ROADS, BRIDGES, ETC. Following are eome of the more important votes on tho Public Works Estimates. Liabilities, reducing the amount of the vote (where they exist) are shown in parentheses. Railway Construction. East Coast Main TrunkWaihi-Tau-ranga, £5000; Tauranga-Paengaroa, £25,000 (£471); Gisborne-Motu, £80,000 (£3358); Napier-Gisborne, north end, £15,000 (£38); south end, £12,000 (£118).Mount Egmont branch, .610,000 (£37). Stratford-Main Trunk, £90,000 (£5942). Foxton-New Plymouth (Manawapou deviation), £1000 (£350). South Island Main Trunk.—North end, £20,000 (£382); south end, £30,000 (£3628). Midland.—Nelson end, £30,000 (£4072); Reefton end, £17,000 (£97); Otira-Bealey, £70,000 (£383,897); Broken River to Bealey, £50,000 (£3704).

Surveys, new lines, .£5000; permanent way materials, .£IOO,OOO (^10,184). Additions to Open Lines. North Island main lines and branches, .£101,743 (<£55,299). South Island main lines and branches, 329,121 (£9397). Interlocking signal-gear, fixed signals, tablet installation, telegraphs, and telephones, £28,000 (.£1325). Nelson section, .£706 (£1056). Picton section, ,£17,000. Kolling stock, £255,000 (£53,377). Workshops machinery, £15,000 (£1339). New steamer for Lake Wakatipu: Incidental expenses, including architect's. fee, £7000 (£0811). Public Buildings. Government House, Auckland (repairs and innovations), £300; Government House, Auckland (refurnishing), £115; new Government House, Wellington. £1000. ' Parliament Buildings.—Now buildings and alterations to grounds (on account), £20,000; alterations to streets surrounding grounds (on account), £9000; purchaso of land (Quinton's corner), £7000, Departmental buildings, Now Plymouth, £3650 (£3101); Stratford (preparation of site, and creation of building), £2200; Wanganui (purchase of propertv, etc.), £700; Government Printing Office (additions), £1000. . "Wellington—Government Printing Office (additions), (on account), £1000; old Parliament Buildings (alterations to provide office accommodation, -renovations, etc.), £650; fireproof offices for Stamps and Native Departments (on account), £5000 (£6); Dominion Museum (on account), £2000; Public Works workshop, store, and storekeeper's residence (on account), £3000; contribution towards cost of extending sewer along Waterloo Quay, £260; reclamation and fencing 'of store sites and yards for Government Departments (on account), £9000; magazines at Shelly Bay, including tram-line, removal, etc., of magazine-keeper's house, £1150; Blenheim (additions and alterations), £•1000; High Commissioner's Office, London (on account),. £1000. Courthouses, Gaols, Etc. New Plymouth (additions), £100 (£12); Wanganui, £1000; Mastcrton, £1100 (£865); Martinborough (site and building), £560; Wellington (strong-room accommodation), £250; Takaka, £500 (£173;; Collingwood (Clerk of Court's house), drainage and improvements, £160 (£2); Wellington Gaol (warder's cottage), £525; Hastings (sergeant's residence), £650; Wanganui (quarters), £500; Wanganui (inspector's residence), £800; Masterton, £2000; Wellington, Lambton Quay (gymnasium, cells, and quarters), £2000; Wellington, Mount Cook (additions), £60; Wellington, Mount Cook (sergeant's residence). £700; Wellington South (gymnasium and quarters), £100; Wellington, Island Bay (purchase of property), £800; Wellington, Kilbirnie (purchaso of property), £800; Wellington, Eastbourne (purchase of property), £850; Wellington, Brooklyn (purchase of property), £750; Wakefield, £850; Jlurchison, £9GO (£911).

Post and Telegraph. Wairoa, £275 (£172); Napier (new building, on account), £5000; Taradale, £100 (£41); Clive, £950 (£820); Havelock North, £1250; l'ukehou, £700; Otane, £1100 (£1215); Waipukurau, £2200; Or. mondville, £900; Whangamomona, £1000 (£800); Okaiawa, £950; St. John's (site and building), £1000; Wanganui (alterations, renovations, etc.), £50; Halcombe, £900; Shannon, £135; Pongaroa (alterations), £550; Eketahuna (additions), £000; Carterton (additions), £150 (£415); lx)wer Hutt (additions), £125 (£29); Petono (additions), £650; Porirua, £300 (£123); Khandallah (site), £175; Ko.iwarra, £2050 (£1935); Karori (on account), £230; Wellington (additions), £15,000 (£26,220); Wellington (pneumatic tubes to branch oflice) (on account), £1000; Wellington (additional accommodation. for telephone exchange), £1300; 'Wellington (stables, workshop, etc.), £250; Wellington (bulk store), £17,000; Wellington, Waterloo Quay sewerj £336; Brooklyn (site and new building), £1050; flataitai (site), £450; Kilbirnio, £100; Miramar (site), £100; Worssr Hay (wharf and store site), £100; Spring Creek (site), £100; Scddon, £1000; Wakapuaka (watersupply and drainoge), £700 (£2); tho Port (Nelson), £1500 ; Takaka (alterations), £325; Takaka (quarters), £500 (£167). Experiment Farms.

Opunako (land and now building), X 1100; Monmahaki (accommodation for learners), .£520; Wercroa (buildings, alterations, etc.),' ; Wereroa (strum piriK), X 291; \Vereroa (accommodation for learners), Mental Hospitals. Porirua, .£BOOO (JC222); Nelson, .£1000; Nelson (Simson's annuity), .£200; Iloldtika, .£500; Sunnysido, JGSOOO (iCllfi); examination rooms at general hospitals. ,£3OOO. Public Health. R-otorua (additional hospital accommodation), ,82500; Wellington, St. Helens (site and new building), ,£3200; Blenheim, .£1000;. Christchurch, St. Helens, JCG000; Tluncdin, St Helens, .£1300; accommodalion for spccial cases at general hospitals, ,£2000; Somes Island (water supply, stable, and yards), .£SOO, Education, Grants to Education Boards for school buildings and additions thereto, sites, fitting.-*, lurniture, etc., ,£00,000; for training colleges, .£. r )00; for teehniiiil schools, buildings, sites, furniture. apparatus. ete., JJ2-?,000j grant? to WK-nmWy urnni'ln, ~£5500./. (muita to .university soilegcs,..

£G500; School for Deaf, Sumner (on ac-1 count of £4500), £4000; Homo for Mentally Defectivo Children, Otekaiko. £2000; Native schools, £4500; industrial schools, (liability .£217), £IG,OOO. Workers' Dwellings. Expenses incidental to acquisition of land, .£15,000; road formation, £3000; ereclion, alteration, and enlargement, £72,000. Total required for current year, .EGO,OOO. Lighthouses and Harbours. Lighthouses (liabilitv £275), £10,000. Harbour works (liability £448), .210,000. Harbour defences, £2000. Lighthouses; North Cape, £4000; automatic light on Chickens (liability £141), £1550; Channel Islet, £700; Castlepoint (liability £131), £4000; Cook Strait, £2000. Removal and re-erection of Marino Department store at Wellington, £SOO; improving road to Godley Head, £420; fog signals, £500; connecting lighthouses by telegrapli, £500. Harbour Works; Foxton Harbour, deepening wharf, £250; Wellington Meteorological Observatory and equipment, £335; Onahau Bay, Pelorus Sound (wharf), £1 for £1, £25; Maliau, Pelorus Sound (wharf), £1 for £1, £50; Takaka Harbour (improvements), £377; Karamea River (improvements), £2S00; Little Wanganui (wharf extension), £100. Tourist Resorts. Tourist and health resorts (liability, JE881), £15,000. Rotorua: New buildings, £2000; drainage and water supply, £1250; electrical works, £1000; reserves, plantations, and gardens,, £350; sanatorium for workers, £1000; wharf improvements, £50; smokehouses, fish depot, and oil launch, £250; purchase of Native land for road, £100; Ohau Channel, £80; Whakarewarewa, £500; Tarawera Springs, £50; Waimangu Hostel, £150. Waitomo Hostel, caves, and reserves (£44), £1000. Mount Cook Hermitage (£597), £7000; dwelling for chief guide, £750. Immigration. Department of Immigration (liability, £3535), £20,000. Passages for separated families and contingencies (£2313), £16,000; assistanco by way of reduced fares to passengers from the United Kingdom (£1271), £20,000; passages for immigrants returned as undesirable, £100; administration and general expenses (£11), £1500; less estimated credits, £17,725.