LOCAL VOTES.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LVI, Issue 248, 17 September 1936, Page 10

LOCAL VOTES.

NEW POLICE STATION. AGRICULTURAL LABORATORY. Included in the votes under the Public Works Estimates for the current year i 6 £2875 for an agricultural laboratory at Palmerston North. An allocation of £SOO was made towards this last year, but not expended, and this makes available a total of £2B7s—the anticipated cost of the work when it was authorised.

The sum of £3OOO has been voted to the Massey Agricultural College for the purchase of additional land. COURTHOUSE ADDITIONS. Other local votes are £295 for additions to the Palmerston North Courthouse, completing an amount of £2105 originally authorised, £lBlO having so far been expended. The sum of £325 has been placed on the Estimates for additions to the Levin Courthouse.

The sum of £IO,OOO has been placed on the Estimates for the Palmerston North police station, a new building being projected. Last year £3345 was voted, and £3657 expended on the new lock-up. The total estimated cost of the work when authorised was £12,465. There is a vote of £4OO for the Woodville police station, making available, with an unexpended vote of £IOOO last year, a total of £I4OO. For the Levin police station £2OO has been voted. There is a vote of £BIOO for the new Post Office at Pabiatua. LANDS IMPROVEMENT.

Under the heading of lands improvement there is a vote of £5500 for sanddune reclamation from Hokio (Levin) to the mouth of the Manawatu River, the total projected cost of the work when it was authorised being £10,090, of which £2393 has been expended to date.