IMPORTANT ITEMS

Marlborough Express, Volume LIII, Issue 252, 24 October 1919, Page 7

IMPORTANT ITEMS

'£15,000 FOR SOUTH ISLAND MAIN TRUNK RAILWAY.

NORTH ISLAND 'SCOOPS THE

POOL."

The following.■items appear en. the PubUe Works Estimates as presented to ihciiouso last night:— Railway oonstii\iction: Total vote ■£850,0C0, including £160,000 ior the North Auckland Main Trunk, £3'2.2G0 for the North Island Main Trunk £207,000-foir. the East Coast (Ninth Island) Main• Trunk £20,000 ior the Op-.tnako Branch, £50,000 for tho Stratford-Main Trunk, -£15,000 for the South ■Island Main Trunk, ■£62.500 for the Midland, £10,000 for t,ho ' G-revmouth-Point Elizabeth, £10,000 for the Otag© Central, £10'}.G0O for ' permanent - way materials, and £250,000 for additions to open lines. The sum of £70,000 is Voted (on account) ,for the new Parliament ' and alterations to the grounds: For additions to the Nelson Host. Office £1000 is voted on account. it is proposed to spend £10,000 on the erection of Chemical and Biological Laborata'.'y buildings in connection with the Department of j Agriculture. Th» total vote under the heading of "Public Buildings" is £839,450, including £250,000 for school buildings • nnd £150,000 for workers' dwellings. Last year £50,700 was voted for the purpose of assisting immigration and £22,406 spent. :> This years vote is. £54,600/ hit. only £25,000 will be required* as-there. is r , an estimated credit of the balance under Section 4S of the Public Revenues Act, 1910.

A veto of £60,000 is taken for expenditure in the prevention and restoration of flood damages. A sinv.br voto was provided last year, of n'liicli £45,333 was spent.. The'total vote required for ■roads,. "bridges, and road's, on. N goldfiolds is £60l\(300. Tho sum of £490,955 was •vottvl last year* and £226,073 e:creiiclo:l.' ■'. ' • ' . •■■"■ ' Last years vote of £280,000 (of ■which £198,611 was sp"ent) for new 'telegraph and telephone lines, sub-, marina cables, telephone connections and installations, and material, ia ancroxs?d to .£300,000. Cimihigent Defence——drill sheds, store:-;, bnrrack-rooins, magazines, office buildings, rifle ranges, etc.— Teqir'res a vote of £15,000. Plnnt, material, and stores for the Public Works Department necessitates a. vote- of £120,000, as against £25,G30 last, year, of which £20,638 was .-.pent. I'he vote for reads to open up land for Fetticmonts' aaiiounts to •^£-2501,000 of -which tho Whangarei liond District is allotted £31.290, Auckland E.oad District £55,285, . .TauTmvrwmi Bond District £21,421. The. B'lenheiiu Iload District's shai'o is £1112. / .'.■-■■■• :' ■ ,

Til-.- sum. of £40,000 is placed on the Estimates'' (£20,000 for each Island) for the , purpose, of surveys sincl investigation of other schemes in the development of watar-power.. ZTor. the acquisition of laiid, erection and alteration of buildings for educational purposes generally, inehidii'g students'" hostels, a vot© of £500,000 is provided.