HIGHER EXPENDITURE
PUBLIC WORKS FUND
EMPLOYEES TOTAL 22,285
Expenditure from the Public Works Fund proper for the nine months to December, 1938, is given in the Abstract of Statistics for March at £6,112,593, compared with £3,659,672 for the corresponding period of 1937. The total expenditure for the financial year 1937-38 was £6,118,030.
The following are the principal items of expenditure during the last nine months of 1938, the corresponding figures for 1937 being given in parentheses: —Construction, etc., of railways, £2,564,997 (£1,260,563); public buildings, £984,667 (£494,014); roads, etc., £855,631 (£694,420); education buildings, £416,257 (£311,447); settlement of unemployed workers, £229,343 (£141,218); native land settlement, £292,917 (£183,332); telegraph extension, £267,088 (£182,856).
The Abstract gives , the following average numbers of Public Works employees, that is, all workmen on undertakings directed by the Public Works Department, during February, 1939: —Roads, including main highways, 12,520; hydro-electric works, 1179; other works, 8586 (public buildings 2026, railways 2650); total, 22,285.-
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVII, Issue 88, 15 April 1939, Page 11
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153HIGHER EXPENDITURE Evening Post, Volume CXXVII, Issue 88, 15 April 1939, Page 11
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