PUBLIC WORKS ESTIMATES.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 28 October 1924, Page 5

PUBLIC WORKS ESTIMATES.

general purposes fund. i are the estimates for iyj4-20, the amounts spent last year being given in parentheses: General Purposes Account.—Public Works, departmental, £133,000 (£llO,railw'aysj—railway construction £1,200,000 1£1,132,765), additions to open Imes £BOO,OOO (£643,648); public buildings, £306,500 (£192,731): timber supply and sawmills for Public Works Department, £2500 (£3613); acqnisiand . operation of quarries, -11,000; lighthouses and harbour works, £14,000 (£10,805); developof tourist resorts, £32,500 Ipnn’mn) ’ immigration, £IBO,OOO (^94,000); construction, maintenance and supervision of roads, bridges and ' public works, £832,000 (£749,*3/); development of mining, (£441); telegraph extension, £900.000 (£717,410); mo.tor transport service, £SOOO (£962); contingent defence, £40,000 (£4932); lands improvement. £32,000 (£18,182); irrigation, water supply and drainage, £IOO,OOO (£95.467); plant, material and stores, £30,000 (Or. £52,772) ; unauthorised, (£1016); total —general purposes account, £4,618,500 (£3,749,160). Electric supply account, £1,133,146 (£812,972); Wailiou and Ohinenmri Rivers improvement account, £70,000 (£70,533); total—Public Works Fund, £5,821,646 (£4,632,665). Separate accounts. —Land for settlements account (opening up land for settlements), £50,000 (£49,186); main highways construction fund, £500,000; Railways provement .Authorisation Act, 1914, Improvement Authorisation Act,. 1914. account, £1,225,000 (£20.520); education loans account, £500,000 (£295,390). Grand total, £8,096,646 (£4,997,761).