PUBLIC WORKS ESTIMATES.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXV, Issue 9137, 20 August 1888, Page 6

PUBLIC WORKS ESTIMATES.

[BY TELEGRAPH.-SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT.] Wellingtok, Saturday. The public works estimates show a reduction of the total appropriations to £1,093,132, against* £1,962,152 authorised last year. In the departmental expenses the salary of the Undersecretary is reduced irom £800 to £700, and that of the accountant from £425 to £400. The Engineer-in-chief, who was formerly paid £700 by the Public Works Department, and £300 by tne Marine, is now to receive £800 in the aggregate. The assistant engineer-in-chiet suffers a reduction from £900 to £750. The chief draughtsman is reduced from £400 to £360 and the computer from £250 to £235. Several officers lose £10 each. I give some of the leading items of interest to Auckland, being the estimated amounts required to bo voted for the annual expenditure during this year, and set down accordingly.

COLONIAL, ITEMS. Immigration, £9110; purchase of native lands, £5571; surveys for new lines of railways, £4000. There is £8000 tocomplete immigration engagements entered into in London and in the colony before the '29th December, 1887, when the receipt of nominations was stopped. ROADS. Main roads, £15,100 ; miscellaneous roads and bridges, £34,354 ; grant in aid, £12,000; roads to open up lands before sale, £50,000 ; village special settlements, £20,000 ; roads on goldhelds, £35,000 ; subsidies towards the construction of road.s and tracks in mining districts and minor works for the development of minerals, upon a subscription of one-half being contributed, £11,950; increased water supply and waterworks on goldfields for mining purposes, £200 ; Land Purchase Office, North Island generally, £340; purchase of land, £8324 ; telegraph extension, material, etc., £20,000; police stations, £3000 ; school buildings, £794 (to cover the liabilities incurred with the public works fund up to the 30th June, 1888. further provision will be proposed under the consolidated fund to the extent of £30,000) ; harbour defences, £5(5,541 ; estimated amount of rates on native lands for the year ending 31st March, 1888, £11,500; MartonT(3 Awamutu railway construction works, £57,000; south end, £8000; roads to give access to Marton-Te Awamutu railwaynorth end, £250; south end, £1650.

AUCKLAND VOTJCS. To be expended this year on roads, bridges, and wharves north of Auckland, £300. Main roads: Oxford to Rotorua, £1000; Tauranga to Napier via Taupo, £3000; maintenance of roads along the North Island Trunk Railway, £400. Miscellaneous roads and bridges : Maungaturoto to Tokatoka, £'250 ; main road, Warkworth and Kawakawa, £2500; road from Raglan to Waipa, £250 ; Mercury Bay to Mahakirau, £400 ; road from Pukekohe to Waiuku, £200 ; road from Humua to milway station, £100; road from Patumahoe bo Stomson's corner, £100; road, Maioro to Port Waikato, £100 ; road from Katikati to Te Aroha (horse track}, £500; Waihi bridge (subsidy of £ for £), £250 ; road from Rotorua to Rotomahana, £300; Tauranga to East Cape, Whakatane, Tekoa, and sundry roads in the Bay of Plenty, £1500; road from Opotiki to Whakatane, £1000 ; roads and bridges in native districts, £800; Mangere Bridge, £1800; Tamaki Bridge, £100. Roads to open up lands before sale—Okaihau to Victoria Valley, £580; Waimamaku Bridge, £900; Paparoa to Waikiekie, £200; Wairoa to Helena Bay, £390: Whangarei through Taheke, £200; Hamilton-Whatawhata drain, £300 ; Wairangi to Whangamarino, £500; Mangakahia, £900; Herd's Point to Takahue, £1000 ; Puhoi to Makarau, £220 ; Omaha, £200 ; Waimamaku to Pakanae, £400; Awaroa swamp drains and roads, £100; Otamatea to Deed's, £200; Taupo via Rotorua to Waimarino, £670 ; Kawliia to Waipa, £280; Whaingaroa to Akattia, £330; Akaaka swamp drain, £250; Te Aroha, £290 ; Punui district, £410; Puriri to Tairusv, £200 ; Tairua to Whenuakite, £200 ; WhaingaroatoWaitetuna, £250 ; Huka Falls to Puketarata, £320 ; Rotorua to Galatea, £200; Rotorua to Waiotapu, £500 ; Mata to Kauroa, £200 ; Approach to Miranda wharf (£1 for £1), £100 ; miscellaneous, £900. Roads on goldfields :—Waikawau to Manaia, £1000 ; Tapu to Wai kawau,, £770 ; Ohinemuri Valley to Waitekauri, £500 ; alteration of drainage plant at Thames (£1 for £1 susidy), £2000 ; Whangamata Harbour to Reef, £200 ; Hikutaia to Marototo diggings, £1000. Departmental buildings, Auckland, £12,000; Courthouse, unehunga, £150 ; Coromandel, £130 ; Auckland new prison, £2000; postal and telegraph buildings at Auckland, £330; lunatic asylums (Auckland), £5000 ; Cuvier Island lighthouse, £2500. The thousand pounds for the Thermal Springs is for the completion of contracts entered into for various works at the Hanmer Plains, water supply to Rotorua, planting and improvements of baths and grounds, and contingencies. Railways, Public Works Construction, and Land—Helensville northwards, £15,000 ; Grahamstowr. to Te Aroha, £5000; Putaruru to Ro &orua, £20,000; additions to open lines (Kaipara, Waikato, Hamilton, Te Aroha, Morrinsville, Lichfield, Hamilton, Cambridge), £5000.