ESTIMATE DETAILS
OTAGO VOTES The following Otago rotes appeal under th© heading ‘ Estimated Amount Required to be Voted ’: — Police Stations.—Roslyn, £1,500;’ Milton, £1,800: Normanby, £107; Palmerston, £2,000. Post and Telegraph.—Chief Past Office, Dunedin, £20,000; Cromwell, £1,894; Garage, Dunedin, £730; Palmerston, £5,000. Agricultural—Poison-mixing depot. Green Island, £SO. Mental Hosptials.—Seacliff, £27,000;; Waimate, £9,000. Hospitals.—Dunedin Obstetric Hospital (on account of £50,000). £IO,OOO. Lighthouses.—Moeraki (conversion to automatic light), £1.200; Taiaroa; Head (fog signal), £I,OOO. Tourist Resorts.—Glade House (additions to hostel, £3,500; installation of wireless telephone, £200; Milford Sound (accommodation house, furniture, etc.), £2,500; Milford Sound (electric lighting scheme at hostel and Quintin huts), £7,000; Milford Track (bridges), £500; Mount Cook Hermitage (electric lighting), £200; erection of Malte Brun hut, £1,750; provision of Diesel plant, £2,500; Pembroke (erection of wharves at Pembroke and Neck), £3OO. Roads and Bridges.—The reading votes in Dunedi ndistrict (many of them by way of subsidy) are very numerous. They include Wilden estate road (£2 for £1 subsidy), £2,400; Kingston to Queenstown (on account), £8,000; Elfin Bay to Te Anau, £1.000; Milford to Wakatipu, £3,000; Kaka Point to Nuggets, £962, and .bridge £500; Papatowai to Lougbeach Creek road, £3,700; Brighton to Allanton, £250; Hawea to Makarora track, £25,000. Alain Highways.—Dunedin-Christ-church (free), £19,812; Dunedin-Port Chalmers (£1 for £1), £371; Ida Valley railway station-Moa Creek School (£2 for £1), £947; Palmerston-Queenstowu (via Beck’s, £2 for £l. £700; £1 for £l, £2B), £723 ; St. Bathan’s loop '£2 for £7), £237; Timaru-Queenstown (via Tekapo and Lindis Pass, £4 for £l, £400; £2 for £l, £6,925), £7.325; Wai-piata-Styx (£2 for £l), £600; engineering surveys (free), £500; Bal-clutba-Papatowai (free, £45; £2 for £l, £1.240), £1,285;- Balclutha-Tua-peka Afouth (free), £222; DunedinInvercargill (free, £53.300; £2 for £l, £11), £58,311; Dunedin-Poa'tobcllo (lower), £42.000; Green Tsland-Tnieri Mouth, £2,030; Waipalii-Pomahaka (£1 roa £1), £SOO.
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Evening Star, Issue 20315, 25 October 1929, Page 6
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292ESTIMATE DETAILS Evening Star, Issue 20315, 25 October 1929, Page 6
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