THE ESTIMATES.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XX, Issue 6749, 5 July 1883, Page 6

THE ESTIMATES.

[BY TELEGRAPH.—SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT. 1

Wellington, Wednesday. „ The estimates of amounts chargeable on the Public Works Fund have been circulated. The following is a summary of the amounts required to be voted for this year for works chargeable on the Public Works Fund — Immigration, £78,706 ; Public Works : Departmental, £14,152; railways, £1,973,751 ; surveys of new lines of railway, £14,000 ; roads, £310,436; land purchases, £72,000; goldfields' roads, £39,000; waterworks on goldfields, £21,000 ; telegraph extension, £27,190; public buildings, lighthouse and harbour works, £64,066; charges and expenses of raising loans, £28,500. Total, £1,958,601. The liabilities againet this total on the 31st March, 1883 were £1,171,161. Items for immigration (Auckland): Immigration Officer (also Depotmaster, Auckland), £150 ; matron, £40 • quarantine-keeper, £78. The following are the amounts put down for Auckland works :—Kawakawa : Construction and land, £16,000; Resident Eugmeer, £400. Whangarei to Kiuno : Construction and land, £5050; AssistantEngineer, £300 ; Kaipara to Waikato, construction and land, £75,000; officers, £1440. Hamilton-Te Aroha and Te ArohaThames: Construction and land, £55,000; Engineer, £350. Hamilton - Cambridge branch : Construction and land, £25,000 ; Assistant-Engineer, £275. Surveys of new lines, "North Island: Assistant - Engineer, £275 ; miscellaneous expenses North Island, £10,000. Roads and bridges, and wharves north of Auckland, £33,000; CambridgeTaupo, £1000; Cambridge-Rotorua, £6000; Tauranga, East Cape, Whakatane, Te Koi, and sundry roads, Bay of Plenty, £2000. Tauranga to Napier, via Taupo, £4000. Roads and bridg'es in native districts, £3500. "Waikouaiti Bridge and approaches, £200. Roads from Pukekohe railway station to Waiuku, £500 ; punt at Tamaki, £350 ; road from Tuhikaramea to Hamilton, £75 (expended) ; road from Raglan to Waipa, £500 ; bridge over Waikato at Hamilton, £100 ; road from Cambridge to Tauranga, £800 (expended); road from Thames to Tauranga, £2620 (expended); repairing flood damages, Cook County, £427; sundry roads and bridges, Auckland, £10,455 (liability, £10,429).

The following sums are set down for roads to open up lands in Auckland districts:— before settlement, the vote being for three years :—Kaihu to Kaikohe, £1666. Homestead blocks—Maunganui, £500; Pakiriblock, £300; Wairua to Sandy Bay, £1500; Wairua to Helena Bay, £900; Whanyarei through Taheke, £800 ; Purua aud Mangakahia, £430; Tangihua No 3, £260; Maunganui Bluff to Kaihu. £1592; Takahane to Mongonui Awaea, £360 ; Okaihau to Victoria Valley, £6000; Helensville to Kaipatiki, £1460; Waikato to block 16, Awaroa, £545; Lake Whangape to block 7, Awaroa, £1364 ; Hikutaia to Ohinemuri, £400; Taurangato Te Puke and Matata, £700; Opotiki to Waitohi, £500 ; Opotiki to Orrnond, £7294 ; Te Aroha block, £14C4 ; Huihuitaha to Patetere, £530 Ruakituri block, £1880 ; Ormond to Waiapu, £6000 ; Gisborne to "Waimata, £1500; Gisborne to Wairoa, £9700 ; Taupo, via Rotoaira and Muiimotu, to West Coast, £4000; Tolago Bay to Arakihi, £2000; Kohukohu to Kahutapu, £500; Wairoa River to Otau, £720: Te Maire to Kahuru, £1000; ■\\ hangaroa to Kahuru, £1000 ; Ohuka to Waikaremoana, £1500; VVaerenga, through Whangarnarino, £250; Whangape to Victoria Volley, £500; miscellaneous, £2000: total, £67,557.

Land purchases, Provincial District of Auckland, £i;i,000; roads on goldfields, sundry roads, £2000 ; moiety of subsidies towards the construction of tracks and minor works upon a subscription of one-third being coutribnted, £10,000; assistance to Piako County Council towards the construction of tramway from Te Aroha Mountain to batteries, £4000 (liability to 31st March, £4000). For telegraph extension £9880 i 3 put down. Auckland new prison, £3000 ; postal and telegraph, Onehunga, £358 ; Rotorua, £550 ; lunatic asylums throughout the colony, £60,000 (liability 31st March last, £44,938).

Hospitals.—ln aid of construction and repairs, £4000 ; school buildings, £70,000 ; Auckland Observatory, £50 ; Jtfokohinau, £600; French Pass light, £5000; Kaipara Heads, £7000; Tiritiri, for laying cable, £1100. £28,500 is set down for charges and expenses of raising loans authorised by the New Zealand Loana Act.