COST OF YEAR’S WORK

Evening Star, Issue 20315, 25 October 1929, Page 6

COST OF YEAR’S WORK

ESI WE FOR THIS YEAR £5,001,339 FROM GENERAL AGGOUHT Minister states that the total net expenditure under all votes and accounts appearing on the Public Works Estimates for the financial year ended : March 31, 1929, was £8,331,884 01 this sum £3,777,006 was expended out of General Purposes Account, and the balance, £4,554,878, out of special ac- j counts. „ . v I A brief summary of this expenditure shows that railways absorbed | £1,216,277, roads £833,577, telegraph j extensions £624,414, cost and discount, 1 raising loans, etc., £438,238, public buildings £213,505. ■ The estimated expenditure under General Purposes Account for the year is £5,001,339. . . , _ , The net expenditure out of the Public Works Fund on additions to open lines of railway for the year amounted to £213,405 2s 3d. This sum covered the, provision of new rolling stock, motor vehicles for, roaa service, improvements and additions to station buildings, water, services, cranes, weighbridges, and other operating plant, train control lines and instruments, additional dwellings, and purchase or land. The expenditure under the Railways Improvement Authorisation Act, 1914, amounted to £2,007,617, including the .aura of £97,791, proportion of the cost of raising the loan. The works included in this expenditure were new stations and yards, goods sheds, and terminal facilities at Auckland and Wellington; duplication, HorotiuFrankton; new lines, Hutt Valley and Anckland-Westfield; new. locomotive depots at Auckland and Grevmouth; deviations between Ravensbonrne and Burke’s, at Palmerston North, and Tawa Flat; locomotive workshops and equipment; bridge strengthening; electrification of railway between Lyttelton and Christchurch, including electric locomotives; interlocking, automatic and power signalling, telegraph and telephones, safety appliances, and electric lighting.