THE PUBLIC WORKS ESTIMATES.

Evening Post, Volume XXIV, Issue 42, 8 September 1882, Page 3

THE PUBLIC WORKS ESTIMATES.

The proposed appropriations for the ourrent year are as follow :— lmmigration, iJS*,IS9 ; departmental, _ 12,8 14 ; railways, £903,696; surveys of 1 new lines, £12,500; roads, -379,702; land pnrohase, £82,455; goldfields roads, £16,700; waterworks on stoldflelds, £10,465; telegraph extension, £19.520; publio buildings, £222,230; lighthouses and harbour works, £71,113; expenses of raising loans, £10,000. Total, £1.798,384 This inoludes £546,827 outstanding liabilities on the 31st of Mazoh last. The Wellington votes are as follows :— lmmigration offioer, £100; matron, £23 ; quarantine keeper and matron, £120. Railways : — Wellington to Woodville — Salaries, £488; construction and land, £40,000. Bannythorpe' Gorge— Bush-felling and land, £2500. Foxton to Patoa— Salaries, £1481; construction and land, £61,000. Patea, t5 Waitara — Salaries, £481; ooni str notion and land, £40,000. Bridges :— To ¦ relieve Wanganrri Bridge from tolls, £17,000 ; Wangaeh'D, £1000; Orepuki approaoh, £150; Manawatn (grant in aid), £2000. Roads— Manohester Blook, £16; Foxton-Otaki, inland, £500 ; Manawatu Gorge, £800; Fitz« herbert Blook, £1000 ; Seventy Mile Bush, £1850; sundry, £1000. Roads to open up lands before sale— Pahiatua, Mangaone, Ao., £10,338; Fltzherbert Bridge, £500; Eitzherbert Blook roads, £400; Otamakapua. £5000; Pohangina River, £1850; Momanaki Blook, £2616; Tahomaru Blook, £1200 ; Wanganui • Murimotu, £2000 ; Marton • Murimotu, £2000 ; Rangituruan, £500; Sandon, £30; East Wairarapa, £1500; Mangahao, £1750; Mungaroa* Waikanae, £455; miscellaneous, £1000. Land purchases in Wellinirton Distriot, £50,000; salaries, £250; Courthouses, Wellington, £10 ; Masterton, £800 ; GreytoWn, £300; Bulls, £300; Hawera, £800. Gaols, Wellington (Mount Cook), £5196. Post and Telegraph office, Wellington, £22.000} Greytown, £500 ; Wellington time ball, Observatory, £400; Wellington College, £3000. The vote for school buildings in the whole colony is £100,000, and for lunatio asylumi, £50,000.