PUBLIC WORKS ESTIMATES

Evening Star, Issue 17880, 28 January 1922, Page 8

PUBLIC WORKS ESTIMATES

CURRENT YEAR'S VOTES. The following is»a summary Of the service.l) chargeable on tho Public Works fund and other accounts, according to the Estimates for the year ending March 31, 1922, 'as presented to Parliament: — Public Works, departmental ... £165,000 Railways— Railway construction 1,150,000 -Additions to open lines ... 2,100,000 Public buildings ... 379,550 Timber supply and saw-mills for Public Works Department ... 42,000 Lighthouses and harbor works 21,000 Tourist and health resorts ... 25,000 .Immigration 225,000 Construction,- maintenance, and supervision of roads, bridges, v and other Public Works ... 590,000 Development of mining __ 2,000 Telegraph extension 500,000 Contingent defence 17,600 Lands improv.ment 13,030 Irrigation, water supply, and drainage '... 85,000 Plant, material, and stores ... .175,000 Land for Settlements Account (roads) 50,000 Electric Supply Account ... 900,000 Railway Improvement Authorisation Act 1914 Account ... 250,000 Waihou and Ohinemuvi Rivers Improvement Account 65,000 Education Loans Account ... 735,000 RAILWAYS, f The votes fo- railway -construction total £1.150,000, and for 'additions to open lines, £2,100,000. Tho details are us follow , Kaihu railway extension, £15,000, North Auckland Main Trunk.—Hnaran, •northwards, £322,000; Whangarei branch, £30,000; Waipu branch, £4.000. North Island -Main Trunk.—'Waiuku branch, £26,000; Hu,illy branch, £30,000. East Coast Main Trunk.—Waihi-Tanea-tua (including Mount branch), £173.000;' Gisborne-Nnpier, £67,000; Waikokbpu branch, £11.0,000, Mount Egmont branch. Opunake branch, £20,000. Stratford Main Trunk, £60,000. Midland.—Glenhopc-Murchison, £18,000; Otira-Bealoy, £350,000. Greymouth-Point Elizabeth, £24,000; Otago Central, £5,500; Oropuki-Waiau extension, £12,000; Lawrenco-Eoxburgh, £30,000. Land claims, damages or losses on goods in transit, and other liabilities, £2,500. Surveys, new lines of railway (including Paekakariki deviation, Rirautaka deviation, Balclutha-Tuapeka Mouth, GoreHedgehope, and other lines previously provided for as separate lines),} £3,100. Permanent way materials, £300,000. Additions to Clpen Lines. —North Island main Hues and branches, £175,000: South Island main lines and branches, £100,000; Whangarei section, £25,000; interlocking signal gear, fixed signals, tablet installation, telegraphs, and telephones, £25,000; locomotive branch —rolling stock £250,000, workshops machinery £25,000, locomotives and waggons constructed in United Kingdom £1,500,000. . PUBLIC BUILDINGS. General, £90,000; courthouses, £6,750; prisons, £45,000; police stations, £30,000; postal and telegraph, £120,000; agricultural, £4,000; mental hospitals, £40,000; hospitals and charitable institutions, £40,000; school buildings, £3,800 —total, £379,550Parliamentary Buildings.—New buildings (on account), £55,000. Local Votes. Departmental Buildings. Alexandra (engineer’s residence, additional land and lencing), £105; Dunedin (public works store and yard), on account, £500; Dunedin (converting old police station into offices for Government departments), £I,OOO. Courthouses.—Cromwell (strong-room), £370. Police Stations.—Anderson Bay (site and building), £1,500; Green Island, £550; St. Hilda (alterations), £330 ; Woodhaugh (purchase of property and repairs), £300; Fortrose (lock-up), £100; Lawrence (sergeant’s residence, additions), £200; Miodlemarch, £1,000; Palmerston, £1,600} Port Chalmers (police sergeant’s residence, purchase of property, and repairs), £1,000; Ravensboume (purchase of property and repairs), £3OO. Postal and Telegraph. Alexandra, £4,000; Dunedin (additional accommodation for telegraph material), £200; Dunedin Automatic Telephone Exchange, £lo,ooo} Dunedin Chief Post Office (new ~ building, on account), £5,000; Dunedin garage (additions), £500; Milton (additions, on account), £300; Mosgiel (on account), £500; Ranfurly, £3,700. Agricultural.—Palmerston (office for fields’ inspector), £l2O. Mental Hospitals.—Seacliff, £12,030 ; Waitati, £3,000. Hospitals and Charitable Institutions.— Dunedin, St. Helens, £4,840. Harbor Works.—Puketeraki (fishermen’s boat slip), £650. ROADS AND BRIDGES. Dunedin Road District (construction, maintenance, supervision of roads, bridges, etc.).—Balclutha to Greenfield (on account of £l,lOO, £1 for £1), £405; Big Bush road (£1 for £1), £140; Cairn road (£6O on account of £1,500, £1 for £1), £550; Clarendon to Circle Hill (£1 for £1), £150; Const road (£1 for £1), £660; Coast road to Akatore Creek (£1 for £1), ■ £650; Crescent Riverside road (£1 for £1), £SO; Greenfield to Waitahuna Bridge (Greenfield Settlement Board, £l' for £1), £550; Hiliend to Blackburn (£1 for £1), £575; Hiliend to Waitahuna Bridge (on account of £2,000, £1 for £1), £500; Irishman’s Neck (£1 for £1), £250; Lovell’s Flat to Hiliend, £100; Lovell’s Flat to Kaitangata (£1 for £1), £75; Mahara Coal Mine road, £79 ; Manuka to Mount Stuart (£IOO, £1 for £1), £200; Michell’s road (£1 for £1), £100; Milburn to Circle Hill (£1 for £l, £100; Milton to Coornbe Hay (£1 for £1), £100; Moore road (£1 for £1), £200; Mount Maitland road (Pukeawa Block), £150; Mount Stuart to Hiliend 1 (£1 for £1), £425; Pukeawa to Waitahuna Bridge (£1 for £1), £125; Puketi (£1 for £1), £625; Puketipo to Bishop’s (£l for £1), £100; River road to Blackburn (on account of £6OO, £1 for £1), £300; Shagreo Creek Bridge, £300; Toko Bridge (Main South road” £1,250, £1 for £1), £2,250; Tuapeka Mouth to Waitahuna Bridge (£1 for £1), £150;? Wangaloa to Coornbe Hay, £SOO f Arthurton Landslip (£1 for £1), £SO; Balolutha protective works (£1 for £1), £168; Barr’s road, Gatlins (£1 for £1), £100; Barry’s road and bridge, £200; Burke’s Ford to Tuapcka Mouth (£1 for £1), £600; Gatlins River Bridge and approaches (Hinahina, on account, £1 for £1), £500; Gatlins Valley extension and tCatllns Valley to Table Hill (substitution of mds for tramways), £2,260; Cheot■wood to Romahapa (£1 for £1), £100; Ghloria Pass road (£1 for £1), £100; Clinton to Cljdevale (on account of £550, £1 for £1), £328; Clinton to Owaka (on account of £I,OOO, £1 for £1), £300; Clinton to Wyndham (£1 for £l), £9B; Clydevale to Wharetoa (£1 for £1), £256; Conical Hill School, roads close to (£1 for £1), £100; Cooper’s Creek road, £1,030; 1 Glenomaru S.D., Block IV., Section 35 (access), £B4; Hanning’s road (£1 for £1). £100; Hewson road, £45; Houipapa to Kahuika, £SO; How-den’s road (£1 for £1), £SO: Kahuika School road (on account of, £874), £500; Kaka Point to Nuggets (South Molyneux), £150; Katea special rating roads (£1 for £1), £1,000; Koi to Kelso (£1 for £1), £300; Koi to Maitland (£1 for £1), £250; Lakeside road (£1 for £1), £100; Leslie’s road, £735: Lochindorb Homestead road, £SO; M’Kenzio road (£l2O, £1 for £1), £218; McLennan to Kahuika (on account of £1,476), £1,000; Morris Saddle road, £1,125; Mouat’s Saddle road, £255; Newhaven road, £135; Otanomomo Settlement (raising stppbank), £3,000; Owaka to , purekireki, £62; Papatowai to Long Beach Creek, £421; Pomahaka River Bridge (Burk’s Ford, on account of £9OO, £1 for £1), £100; Pomahaka River Bridge (Clyde vale-Waiwera road, on account of £4,213, £3 for £2), £2,000; Puaho road, « £1.500; Ppketiro railway station road to "nglfi side of sections 4, 18, and 19, block V. Woodlands S.D., £300; Purakanui Stream road, £SO; Purakauiti, £175 j

Ratamfi to Tahakopa Bench (on account of £1,426), £1,000; Rcwcastle mad, £B2; Eongahere School road (sections 6 and 20, block VI., Rankleburn S.D.), £SO; Shark’s Creek road, £24; Stuart road, £202; Tahakopa RiVc,;; Bridge and approaches (Papatowai), £5,895; Taumata to Clinton £1 for £1), £4l; Waikaka to Kelso (£l, for £1), £650; Waipahi to Tapanui (on account of £1,250, £1 for £1), £225; Wiliiame'con and Clearwater's road (Ratamii), £100; Taieri River Bridge (Loganbnrn Ford, £l for £1), £500; Beach road (Portobc-110 to Dunedin)-—-seawall—£l for £1), £200; Beaconsfield road (£1 for £1), £6O: Camp to Company’s Bay (£IOO, £1 for £1), £150; Harbor Cone mad. £200; Otaknu School road, £sl; Pipikaretu (£2 for £1), £100; Wickliffe Bav to Cape Saunders, £200; Wilson's’road (£2 for £1), £6O; St. CTair-Ocean Bench protective works (repairs, £1 for £3l, £332; Berwick to Waipori Falls (£1 for £4), £600; Broad Creek Bridge (Leo Flat road, £1 for £1), £400; Green Island to Taieri Mouth, £945; Kaikorni Valiev road (on account of £I,OOO, £1 for £1), £500; Kay’s Bridge (Halfway Bush to Wharc Flat.. £1 for £1), £sooAtkins road (£1 for £1), £SO; Bowler’s railway station road (£1 for £1), £250; Chalmers Hill road (£1 for £1), £SO: Crookburn Bridge to Tnapeka Mouth (£ls, £2 for £1), £65 ; Edicvalc to Heriot (£1 for £1). £74; Kdievalo to Moa Flat School (£7OO, £1 for £1), £750; Kdievalo to Rae’s Junction, £100; Heriot to Dunrobin (£1 for £1), £200; Kelso to ParkHill road (£1 for £1), £174; Lawrence to i Beaumont (£1 for £1), £75; Lawrence to Tuapcka Mouth (£1 for £1), £100; Lee: Flat Bridge, £100; Pomahaka River Bridge (Kelso, £1 for £1). £100; I’onwhakn River Bridge (Pomahaka Siding, cm account of £6OO, £1 for £1), £100; Sheddon road (£1 for £1), £SO; Tapanui to Dalvey Bush (£SO. £1 for £1). £69; Tapanui to railway station (£1 for £1), £215; Waitahuna railway station to Lockhart’s road £1 for £1), £200; Pomahaka River Bridge (Twccdio's, Tuapcka, and Ford; on account of £6OO, £2 for £5). £200; Palmerston Borough, Romildsay street (£1 for £1), £175; Pigroofßridge, and deviation (Palmerston-Clyde Main road), £200: Shag River Bridge (£1 for £1), £197; Stoneburn Bridge, £100; Trotter’s road deviation, £300;. Hall road, £SO; Jeffries’s road (£1 for £1), £25; Kawarika (£1 for £1), £100; Lower Harbor road, £100; Merton railway station to Karitane (£1 for £1), £150; Mount Watkins road (£1 for £1), £100; Waikonaiti (Main road, £1 for £1), £100; Waitati to Waka-ri, £155; West Harbor road, £200; Be-nmorc to Lake Ohau. £500; Bcnmore to Oman River (on account of £SOO, £1 lor £1), £250; Dan.sey’s Pass road, £400; I Duntroon to Livingston, £3OO Enfield road f£l for £1), £250; Gardner road, £100; Kartigi Beach road (on account of £1,000), £500; Maraewhcnna road protection, £400; Kurow to Omarama, £4OO ; Plunkct road (£1 for £ll, £109; Teaneraki to Maheno road (£1 for £1), £200; Waiarmkarua River Bridge (on account of £4OO, £1 for £1). £6B; AVindsor Park road £1 for £1), £3OO. ROADS ON GOLDFIELDS, Macandrow Bridge, (redecking. £1 for £D, £250; Upper Taieri Goldfields road, £100; diverting Weatherstones Creek and raising road in vicinity, £250: Benhar to Main .South road (£1 for £2), £100; Dunlop's coal pit to Lovells Flat (£1 for £2), £100; Kaitangata to Wangaloa (£1 for £1), £250. LAND IMPROVEMENT. Lands, Miscellaneous.—Benraoro water race, £270. Roads to Open tip Lands for Settlement. —Dunedin road district—Galloway runs block;. Mount Pisa, £100; Dasher run, £IOO f Hawkclen runs, £524; Kyeburn run, £400; Puketoi run, £200: Teviot, £600; Wild on run, £500; blocks not specifically provided for, £IOO. ELECTRICITY. Development of water power (including salaries, travelling expenses, cost of living increase, which is subject to revision as coat of living rises or falls, and all other expenses)—Arapuni scheme, £40,000; Mangahao scheme (new works and purchase of material for stock), £280,000; Horahora scheme extension—new works and purchase of material for stock, £145,000, working expenses, maintenance, interest, etc., £15,000; Kaituna scheme (preliminary expenses), £500; Lake Coleridge scheme —new works, £250,000, working expenses, maintenance, interest, etc., £40,000; purchase of Horahora electric power works from Waihi Gold Mining Company, £212,500 ; Waikareraoana scheme, £78,000; surveys and investigation of other schemes—North Island £I,OOO, South Island £1,000; general expenses not chargeable to any particular work, £2,000.