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THE ESTIMATES.

"... T-* ' ITEMS OF INTEREST TO SOUTH TARANAKI. • Following are items of interest to South Taranaki taken from the Public Works Estimates for the financial year. 1922-23, with the amounts voted for the year 1921-22 in parentheses:— I Public Works Fund —Public works, departmental £145,853 (£165,082); railway construction £1,500,000, additions to open lines £850,000, totalling £2,350,000 (£3,250,000); public buildings £374,000 (£389,960); timber supply and sawmills for Public Works Department £17,000 (£42,000); lighthouses and harbour works £14,485 (£21,575); tourist and health resorts'; £25,000 (£25,925); immigration £241,----000 (£225,000); construction, maintenance, and supervision of roads, bridges,! i and other public works £815,000 (£6lB,- : 473); development of mining £1500: (£2000) ; telegraph extension £783,385' (£500,000); contingent defence £25,000 (£17,500); lands improvement £30,000 (£25,033) ; irrigation, water supply, and : drainage £70,000 (£85,000); plant,! material, and stores £75,000 (£175,-j 000). Total Public Works Fund: £4,967,223 (£5,542,548). f i Land for settlements account (roads) £110,000 (£50,400), "! Electric supply account £1,075,000 ; (£900,000). . . ! Railways Improvement Authorisation j Act, 1914, account £200,000 (£250,000).! : Waihou and Ohinemuri rivers im-, provement account £60,000 (£65,000). j 1 Education loans account £350,000 (£735,000). Details from the schedules concerning estimates of interest to South Taranaki are: — Railways—Opunake branch railway £50,000 (£20,000); Stratford-Main Trunk £60,000 (£60,000). Police stations^-Hawera (police station and sergeant's residence) £3300; Rahotu £1700 (£1000). Postal and telegraph—Normanby (additions at railway station) £160; Patea £5000 (£8000); Reparoa (site) £55; Stratford (on account of £27,000) £10,000 (£10,000). Roads, etc,. Egmont County—Cape road (£1 for £1) £100 (£100) ; Kahui (£1 for £1) £200 (£200); Newall road (lower), Parihaka Settlement, £500; Okahu (Ngariki road to Newall road) £475 (£475); Upper Parihaka road £500; Waiaua river bridge, Wiremu road (on account of £2,250, £3 for £1), £1000 (£1000); Wiremu (Kiri road to Ngariki road) £750 (£1350). Waimate West —Kaupokonui river bridge (Main South road), on acconnt of £1000, £500. Hawera County—Patete stream bridge (Tongahoe Valley road), on account, £500; Tongahoe Valley £3000 (£1486): Tongahoe river bridge (South road), £1 for £3, £500; Waingongoro river bridge (Skeet road), £1 for £4, £300. Stratford County—Kota road (metalling) £900 (£900); Makahu (£1 for £1) £100; Makara (on account of £950, £l for £1) £300 {£450); Ohura (Strathmore Saddle), £1 for £1, £600 (£600); Patea river bridge, Stratford (£1 for £3) £3375 (£500); Puniwhakau (£1 for £1) £2500 (£500) ; Stanley road (£1 for £1) £750 (£750); Waitiri £2500 (£2250). Eltham—Mangawhero river bridge (Eltham road), £1 for £4, £500; Mataiwhetu (£1 for £1) £50 (£50); Moea- ' watea ridge road £180 (£180); Rawhitiroa road (Omona hill), £1 for £1, £100 (£100)-; Rawhitiroa township (£1 for £1) £100 (£100); Whenuakura stream bridge (Robinson's), £1 for £1, £150 (£150). Patea, County—Ahuroa hill road (£1 for £1) £200; James Creek Bridge (Waitotara Valley road) £500 (£500) ; Kotunga stream bridge (Waitotara Valley road), lower £392 (£700); Maben road (lower), on account of £1000, £500 (£500);, Mangawhio road £200; Moeawatea river bridge (Whara^ riki road) £4.69 (£469); Moeawatea Valley road £2600 (£463) ; Moumahaki State farm road ('£l for £1) £375 (£500); Moumahaki stream bridge (Motorua road), £1 for ~£l, £250 (£250); Moumahaki stream bridge (Waitotara Valley road), £1 for £1, £600 (£600); Omata £400 (£400); upper Waitotara river diversion (Taumatatahi) £500; Waitotara river bridge (Waitotara. Valley road, lower), on account,of £7000, £2 for £1, £500 (£350); Waitotara river suspension bridge (Makakaho road), £1 for £1, £500 (£500); Waitotara Valley road (upper), water tunnel, etc., £750 (£500). Total, Stratford Road District— £178,473 (£173,118). I Roads to open up land for settlement I —Egmont County, Aneti £1076; Strati ford County, Omona Block £464 (£464); | Hawera County, Manawapou Block | £380 (£380); Manawapou, additional 1 block £600 (£600) ; Patea County, ! Whakaihuwaka Block £700 (£700). I _________

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Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLII, Issue XLII, 18 October 1922, Page 4

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THE ESTIMATES. Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLII, Issue XLII, 18 October 1922, Page 4

THE ESTIMATES. Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLII, Issue XLII, 18 October 1922, Page 4

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