PUBLIC BUILDINGS AND INSTITUTIONS

Dominion, Volume 29, Issue 302, 17 September 1936, Page 8

PUBLIC BUILDINGS AND INSTITUTIONS

£1,215,000 TO BE SPENT A striking increase in the expenditure proposed for public buildings and institutions is shown in this years Pubac Works Estimates. It will amount to £1,215,000, compared with £346,880 spent last year* The proposed votes under the various sections, with the amounts spent las.

The largest individual item under the heading of public buildings is £4p,O(X) on account of new departmental buildings at Wellington, on which. £390,000 is ultimately to be spent. Next in importance is £36,969 for the National Art Gallery and Dominion Museum. The sum of £lO,OOO is provided for additions to the veterinary laboratory at Wallaceville. A similar amount is to be voted on account of new public buildings at Auckland, finally to cost £120,000. A courthouse at Christchurch receives a vote of £40,000, one at Blenheim £20,000, and another at Invercargill £22,000. Education Buildings. Under the heading of education buildings £202,000 is to be spent on public schools compared with £81,002 spent last financial year. Secondary schools are to have £lOO,OOO spent on them (£22,195 last year), and technical schools £117,000 (£58,192 last year). Native schools will have £14,000 (£BOB3 last year), and university colleges, £129,600 (nothing last year). Schools for the deaf and feebleminded will have £2OOO and £7OOO respectively. Prison buildings and works mostly involve expenditure .on small facilities of one kind and another. Police stations at Palmerston North and Wanganui are each to have £IO,OCO spent on them, the balance of the aggregate vote being for additions and alterations to existing buildings. The largest item under the Post and Telegraph section is the provision of £120,000 on account of the new Dunedin post office, which will cost altogether £330,160. The additional story on the General Post Office, Wellington, which is to cost £13,500, has £6OlO this year, £4179 being spent there last year. The mental hospitals estimates include the expenditure of £18,500 on a butcher.,’, bakehouse and kitchen at Porirua, and £20,000 on a new boilerhouse. The erection of a store .block will involve £11,009. The erection of new buildings and the provision of facilities at other mental institutions absorbs the rest of the vote. The Dunedin Obstetric Hospital is tn have a further £13.000 toward the total cost of £20,000. Extensions to the SL Helens Hospital, Wellington, including a new ante-natal and post-natal clinic, will cost £2OOO.

year, are as follows: — J ’ Vote Expended 1936-37 1935-36 Public ' ’’uiMings-__ f Ann £ 39,533 ’ 7. 32,000 8,701 Education 500,000 Prison buildings .... .8,000 122,357 2,123 Police stations .... Post and .Telegraph . 300,000 97,809 Mental hospitals ... 213,000 Health and hospital _ 67,465 2,191 institutions .... 30,bOO Total £1,215,000 £346,880