PUBLIC WORKS STATEMENT.

King Country Chronicle, Volume V, Issue 313, 19 November 1910, Page 3

PUBLIC WORKS STATEMENT.

TOTAL VOTES £2,855,000. ONGARUE-STRATFORD LINE £IOO,OOO. BACK-BLOCK ROADS £229,520. The Public Works Statement was laid on the tables in the House of Representatives on Tuesday night, as briefly noted in our last issue. The Minister for Public Works, in his speech, said the expenditure during the past year had amounted to £2,218,975, which, except for the previous year, was the largest on such works for many years. RAILWAY VOTES. Detailing the railway construction work of the year the Minister said 61 miles 6 chains had been opened, die expenditure being £1,283,932. Dealing with the proposed votes he said £IOO,OOO had been put down for the North Auckland railway and £20,000 for a bridge over the Waikato at Huntly and for a branch railway to open up the extensive coal deposits in the Awaroa district there. The votes for the other sections were as under:—

Tauranga - Paengaroa £25,000, Gis-borne-Motu £BO,OOO, Napier-Gisborne £SOOO, total £IIO,OOO. Dealing with the Stratford Main Trunk, the Minister asid: —"It is expected that the section to Pohokura will be ready to be handed over for regular traffic in January next. The section between Pohokura and Whangamomona is in hand, and is progressing very satisfactorily. Last year's expenditure constituted a record, having amounted to £93,235. For the current year a vote of £IOO,OOO is proposed." BUILDING VOTES.

The total expenditure on public buildings last year amounted to £335,114. For the current year votes totalling £413,190 are proposed. Provision is made for the completion of the new Government House, and a substantial item on account of the erection of the proposed new part buildings, also for dapartmental buildings in Hamilton, Gisborne, and other places, the total vote proposed under the general heading being £50,000. Provision is also made for the purchase of land and preparing site and erection of buildings for the new mental hospital at Tokanui, £12,500. POSTAL AND TELEGRAPH.

Frankton £I2OO, Hamilton additions £450, Kirikiriroa £7OO, Te Awamutu additions £SOO, Kawnia alterations £325, Otorohanga£7s, Ongarue£looo, Ohura £7OO.

New telephone exchange for subscribers £90,000, additional wire accommodation £SOOO, telephone extension in new districts £20,000, trunk wires £24,000, new submarine cable £SOOO, wireless telegraphy preliminary arrangements £2OOO, wireless telegraph stations, on account £SOOO.

HEALTH RESORTS.. Waitomo Caves, erection of new accommodation house improvements £220, Ruakura and Waitomo Caves, fencing, planting, tracks and other improvements £2OO. WATE3 POWER SCHEMES. The sum of £300,000 has been provided for the development of the Lake Coleridge and the Hutt river schemes. KING COUNTRY ROADS. The following are the appropriations for the King Country, votes under £IOO being omitted:—Arapae £1 for £1 on account of £SOOO, £250; Awakino to Tirau Point, coach track, £1000; Hunt road, Mahorahora-maire, £100; Mairoa, £1 for £1 on account of £2OOO, £500; Makotuku river bridge, £150; Mangahoe-Mangakara, £1000; Mangaparare - Mangatoro, £100; Manunui Village Setiement, £100; Mataroa, £2 for £l. £100; Minu to Mokau. £1000; Miroa, £250; Mokau river bridge, Kahuwera road, £550; Mokau river bridge, Mokau £2 for £3, £100; Ngapaenga, £2 for £l, on account of £3500, £500; Ngatarawa, £150; Ohakune station road, £100; Ohakune township £1 for £l, £100; Okoke £1 for £l, on account of £700,£200 ;Ongarue river bridge £I2OO Pukekaha road, £120; Otarao, £275; Otuiti, £150; Owen road, £100; Parakopo £100; Piko, £240; Poro-o-tarao to Taumarunui, £100; Potaka, £1 for £1 on account of £3500, £250; Pungarehu £1 for £2, on account, £500; Raetihi township'£l for £l, £100; Rotoaira to Waimarino railway station £250; Taumarunui to Ohakune, £7OO, £2 for £2 £950; Te Kuiti to Mokau, £4000; Tokirima, Kaikara road, to Maraekowhai block, £2000; Tongaporutu to Mangaroa, £1 for £2, on account of £ISOO, £250; Totaro, £2 for £l. on account of £350, £250; Urewera, £100; Uruti, £1 for £l, on account of £2OOO, £400; Uruti stream bridge, £ for £, £100; Waikaka stream bridge, £400; Waiouru to Tokaanu. £3OO. £500; Waitangata, £100; Waitaanga North, £200; Waitara river bridge, Rerekino road, £255; Waitara river bridge, Waitara £1 for £2, on account, £500; WhenuI akura, £150; Caves road £ for £, on i account of £2250, £250; Hangatiki i to Waitomo £ for £ on account of ! £4OOO, £'2so; Hauturu - Otorohanga I road to Ngutunui Stream £ for £, ' £IOO- Hauturu to Otorohanga £ for | £. on account of £4OOO, £250; HuaI roa bridge, £200; Hutiwai £ for £, ! £100; Kawa, £150; Kawhia to Aotea, ! £170; Kawhia to Marakopa river, £2 i for £l, on account of £2500, £250; I Mangamahoe, £150; Mangaohinga ! river bridge, £350; Mangatangi ! bridge, £220; Nguhunui to Kawa, I £250; Oamaru £ for £, £100; Oparau bridge, on account of £2OOO, £100; Oteke river bridge, £125; Otorohanga to Pirongia, £1 for £2. £150; Owaikura road, £100; Pirongia to Kawhia, £500; Terau Mauku, £156 £1 for £2, £200; Waiharakeke bridge, £290; Waitehuna to Aotea, £400; Waitomo stream bridge, £200; Waitomo Valley, Ruakura Caves, £150; Whakapirau, £150; Wharauroa, £290; survey, acquisition and legalisation of roads, drains, gravel pits, tramways, etc., £2750,

BACKBLOCKSROADS. Arapae. £1500; Awakino Valley Lower, £600; Awakino Valley. Upper, £200; Eherua, £250; Hapurua, £100; Horopito, £360; Huhatahi, £200; Kaeaea, £100; Kairimn, £500; Kairimu stream bridges. £230; Kaitieke, £500; Kakahi, £200; Kakahi stream bridge, £600; Karioi to Rangiwaea, £400; Kirihehere, £750; Kiritehere bridge, £120; Kiwi, £850; Kohua, £200; Koka - akio. £750; Kopuha, £100; Kumara, £200; Kuruau. £500; Mahoenui to Totoro, £200; Makarakia.£loo; Makokomiko, £150; Mangaetoroa, £200; Mangakahikatea. £250; Mangakokopu,. £ls 0; Manganui, £1500; Manganuioteao, £400; Manganuioteao bridge. £500: Mangaohutu, £100; Mangaotski Valley, Upper, £500; Mangapapa. £500; Mangapohue. £1250; Mangaturuturu, £280; Marakopa river bridge. Managpohue road, £400; Marakopa river bridge, Te Anga, on account, £500; Marakopa river to Mahoenui, £750; Marakopa Valley, £800; Miroahuiao to Matiere, £1050; Miroahuiao 'to Mangaotaki, £200; Mohakatino Valley, £400; Mokauiti, £200; Moki, £750; Motete, £300; Ngapaenga, £150; Ohura road, £9000; Oio, £400; Otautau, £250; Owhango. £400; Otunui South, £250; Otunui stream bridge, £200; Pakihi to Okete, £100; Paraheka, £800; Parapara to Raetihi, £1300; Paro, £300; Fatua, £250; Pehu, £100; Pipipi, £200; Pirere £250; Pomorangi, £750; Pukearuhe, £150; Pukekaha, £\6o; Pokatea to Kokakonui, s £1600; Pungarehu, £500; Raetihi to Ohura, £500; Ratamire, £200; Rerekino, £200; Retaruke river bridge, £350; Retaruko Valley, £500; Retaruke Valley, Upper, £400; Roto, £100; Ryan road, £200; Tangaprakau river bridge, Kohuratahi road, £500; Tangitu, £250; Te Maire, £100; Te Rata, £100; Tokirima road to Wanganui river, £600; Tongapo-r rutu to Mangaroa, £1500; Turoto, £500; Waikaka, £650; Waikawau, £1000; Waimarino to Retaruke, £300; Waiora, £100; Waipaua, £200; Waitaanga North - Waitawhena, £800; Wanganui Valley road, £600; Whakahau, £4OO.

ROADS TO OPEN CROWN LANDS. Civil Service No. 1 block, £500; Civil Service No. 2 block, £500; Erua. £100; Hikimutu, £300; Horopito, £100; Horopito West, £1500; Iriwhata, £900; Kahuwera, £2675; Kaitieke township, £100; Kakahi Village Settlement, £125; Mangaroa township block, £320; Mangatiti block, £4000; Manunui block, £100; Marangae block, £2230; Matiere village block, £180; Maukuroa block, £100; Maukuroa, £100; Ngararatae block, £100; North Wainiarino block, £1050; Ohakune block extension, £100; Ohakune No. 2 block, £475; Ohakune village settlement block, £780; Orongomai block, £100; Owhango block, £240; Papakauri block, £260; Paraketu block, £1000; Rangataua block, £1260; Rangataua extension block, £100; Retaruke block, £485; Riariaki block, £6600; Ruahemi block, £100; Ruatiti block, £4000; South Kaitieke block, £325; South Waimarino block, £100; Tahuna block, £4000; Tapuiwahine block, £100; Taringamutu block, £100; Waitangi township block, £100; Waiwhatawhata block, £IOO.