AN INCREASED VOTE

Evening Post, Volume CXXII, Issue 67, 16 September 1936, Page 13

AN INCREASED VOTE

PUBLIC WORKS ESTIMATES

£1,215,000 FOR BUILDINGS

An increased vote oC £2,938,264 in the General Purposes Account" of the Public Works Fund is provided for in the Public Works Estimates, which were presented to Parliament today. This year the net vote is £4,636,700, compared with. £1,748,436 spent last year. In addition, this year's vote for the Electric Supply Account is £764,000, compared with £529,075 spent last year, and the Main Highways Account vote is £2,752,000, compared with £1,892,550" spent last year. The biggest single vote is for public buildings, for which a sum of £1,215,000 is provided, and big increases are set aside for public schools, secondary, technical, and Native schools, and University colleges. A sum of £585,000 is to be spent on railway construction, and improvements and additions to open lines are represented by a vote of £610,700.

Particulars of this year's votes, jditions), £1250; store block (equipwith the amounts expended last year I ment), £1200; store block (erection), appearing in parentheses, are as fol-| £11,000; "Vailima" (additions), £285.

RAILWAY CONSTRUCTION. A sum of £585,000 is .set aside for railway construction, compared with £8088 spent last year. Details are as follows:— . ■ East Coast Main Trunk (Gisborne-Napier),Gisborne-Waikokopu,£ 162,500; Waikokopu-Wairoa, £22,500; Waifoa.Putorino,- £100,000. ' Westport-Inangahua—Te , Kuha-Ina-ngahua, £100,000. South Island Main- Trunk (Picton-Waipara)—Wharanui-Parnassus, £ 190,----000. ..■ .~ J , . Land claims (including land taken for ballast pits and quarries, damages or losses on goods in transit, and other liabilities), £7950. Surveys (new lines of railways), £50. Permanent-way material, £2000. Improvements and additions to open lines are represented by a ■ sum of £610,700, compared with £292,909 spent last year. Details are as follows:— Christchurch: New station and _ rearrangement of yard and terminal facilities in connection therewith, £50,000. ' Grade easements: Mercer, Whangamarino, Huntley-Taupiri, TurakinaOkpia, Greatford-Kakariki, and miscellaneous-. -£162,475. •■■•; :..-■•:• ..: ' : Mussel 'Bay: ■ Reclamation,- £ 1400.- - Road motor services: Provision of garage and terminal facilities, £30,000. Wellington: New station and yard, £243,000. v Wellington: Tawa Flat deviation, £12,000. V ■,■••- Wellington-Johnsonville ~..electrification, £47,000. ': . , ••:. Wellington-Paekakaiiki.-: . electrification, £193,525. ,:;.;-.. :..■ ;,.-;.• Works not specified, £1000. .-.; EDUCATION BUILDINGS. A sum of. £500,000 is to be voted for education buildings, compared with £122,357 spent last year. Details are as follows:—----a: Public schools 21)2,01)0 Secondary, schools 100.000 Technical'schools 117,000 Native schools;.. 14,000 Schools for the rtcaf . -.000 Schools for the feeble-minded. ...... 7,000 Massey Colletfo (additional land) ... ;!,000 Training colleges 12.000 ■University colleges 12ft.(!00 I Child welfaro • 3,000 Work to be carried out at tiie mental hospital at Porirua is as follows: —Butchery: bakehouse, and kitchen (erection), £18,500; boilerhouse (erection), £20,000; dairy (erec- j tion), £220; office accommodation (ad-1

SETTLEMENT OF THE UNEMPLOYED. The total vote for the settlement of unemployed workers is £425,000. The sum voted last year was £350,000, and £14G,480 spent. Details of this year's expenditure are as follows: — - £ Advances lo small-farm m cupiers 60,0.00 Advances under share-milking agreements ' \,M D'evelopmeiil-expondituro on land .. 143,000 Livestock and chattels for blocks being developed 2"'°,2, Purchaso and lease of land .: 50,000 Seasonal expenditure on blocfts being temporarily farmed ' ■•'"" Travelling expenses and other administration charges ' r'oo Wages— £ Development expenditure . 200,000 seasonal expenditure . .i-.'.1 . 26,000 —. . 280,000 Contingencies ■ • • • 5"0 DAIRY INDUSTRY LOANS. Advances under section 26 of the Agriculture (Emergency Powers) Act, 1934, are represented by a vote of £90,100. An amount of £100,100 was voted last year, and £10,750 spent ITEMS OF INTEREST. A grant of £400 is made to Mr. C. J. McKenzie, who recently retired from the position of Engineer-in-Chief and Under-Secretary of the Public Works Department. There is a vote of £10,000 for additions to the veterinary laboratory at Wallaceville. ■

£1280 is set.aside for additions to the meteorological office at Kelburn.

The Government's contribution to the National Art Gallery and Dominion Museum this year is £36,969. ":

£2875 is voted for an agricultural laboratory at Palmerston North.,

Additions are' to be made to the Wellington Supi-eme Court at a cost of £670.

A grant, of £13,000 is to be voted for the obstetric hospital at Dunedin. This grant is on account of the sum of £20.000. ' -..

£5000 is to be voted for a massage block and bath house, and £4000 (on account) for a new male hospital at the Queen Mary hospital, at Hanmer.

£5000 is set aside for a dental clinic at Wellington. The estimated cost of the building is £52,000.

£2100 is to be spent on additions to the St. Helens Hospital at Wellington. Radio-direction finding beacons. are represented by a sum of £4100.

£30,000 is to be spent on the. Hay-wards-P.ahautanui ■■• Road.; ■~ The "Vqrk is tb Cost £96;600, -\ .-.' .;■•;' £30,000 is to be spent on the Western Hutt road extension. Last year £15.291 was voted, and £12,000 was spent. The work is to cost £94,000.

£145,000 is to be voted for the construction of telegraph and toll systems; £81,799 was spent last year; £315,000 is to be spent on. building telephone exchanges: • £178,472 .was spent "last year- •.' ■. :.-.■ • ;..- :.'.- - :

Reclamation on the Hutt" River is to cost £50,000; £10,000 was voted last year, and £1200 spent.. The work is to cost £130,000. ' ;

Sand dune reclamation (Hokia to Manawatu River) is represented by £5500. The work is to cost £10,000. £10,000 is set aside for a police station at Palmerston North. The additional storey to the G.P.O. at Wellington is represented.>by £6010. Of £13,500 voted last [year £4179 was spent. • . ■

£1000 is set aside for additions to the Kilbirnie post office.

£500 is to be voted for a post office site at Wellington South.

Line depot buildings at Wellington are represented by £3000; £10,000 was voted last year, but nothing was snent. The buildings are to cost £30,000.

lows:— , s General Purposes Account — Public Works, DepaK- . mental , 130.000 Hallways— Railway construction ." . 533,000 I lt.illways improve- . ments ami additions tO OJ1CH lines «l»,70« Public buildings .. 1,215,000 Liithtlioiisos and harbour works 12,000 Development of tourist resorts 30,000 Itor.ds, etc 765,000 Telegraph extension 3G0.000 Lands improvement 170,000 Irrigation, water supply, and drainago 120,000 Swampland drainage 30,000 riant, material, and services ' Settlement of unemployed workers .. 125,000 Native land settlement .:........ 124,000 . Dairy Industry loans 90,000 Total 4,GSS,700 Electric Supply Account ........ 764,000 £ (98.SS4) (Cr. :;i.sub) (292,»0!U CMU.SSO) (2,921) (13,683)' (444.377) (195,380) (37,009) (85,414) (12,922) (22,438) (140,480) (7.1,887) (10,750) Tl.74S.436) (529,075) Total — Public Works Fund 5,450*,i00 (2,277,511) 2,752,000 (1,892,550)