RAILWAY WORKS.
IMPROVEMENTS AND ADDITIONS
The Public Works Statement says: “The expenditure out of the Public Works Fund amounted to £643,648 for the provision of additional rollingstock, tarpaulins, Westinghouse brakes, steam heating, electric headlights for locomotives, workshop machinery, improvements and additions to station buildings, extension of sidings, bridge works, subways, cranes, weighbridges, additions to workshops, tablet, telegraph, and telephone facilities, additional dwellings, signals and interlocking, and purchase of land. “The total net expenditure under all votes and accounts appearing on the public works estimates for the financial year 'ended March 31, 1924, was £5,314,460. Of this sum £4,065,565 was expended out of geenral purposes account, and the balance, £1,248,895, out of special accounts.”
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 28 October 1924, Page 5
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113RAILWAY WORKS. Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 28 October 1924, Page 5
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