PUBLIC WORKS ESTIMATES.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 12698, 29 October 1904, Page 5

PUBLIC WORKS ESTIMATES.

AUCKLAND VOTES.

[by telegraph,-- correspondent.]

. Wellington. Friday. TEE following a.re some of the items on the Public Works Estimates: —

Public- buildings' • Auckland departmental building. £I'oW'; Auckland old Admiralty House, alterations. £253; Shortland Courthouse improvements. £190; Tauranga Courtlliouse. £1000; Hamilton Courthouse, £500; Auckland gaol, £1500, Auckland police station, connecting brigade office with, inspector's quarters, £800; magazine for Defence Department, in exchange for brigade office, £350; Newton police station, additions, £500; WaiBin station. £450; Eaglan station. £300; J Cambridge, lockup, etc., £160; Shortland, improvements, £50; Wailii, £50; Otorohanga,

: £210. ■■•■•'■•.■•■■ 'Postal stud Telegraph: Mangonui, additions. £710; Auckland, alterations, £&>0; Darnell, new office, £1000; Grey Lynn, purchased pro- , petty, £800; Tauranga. £1000; Waipiro Bay, £250; Tokomaru Bay, £400. Auckland Hospital, for mental diiieasea,

: £7000- : ■■.■:-.'. ■ "' '"-■ ■•■■'. H School building . grants to Education Boards, for additions.,; etc., £20.000; special grants to Boards. £10,000; grants for technical schools, £15,000. . .. Auckland bone sterilising plant and building;, £2500. '''-,'•-•. Whangarei Hospital, additions and drainage. £250: Coiromandel, £150; Auckland Infectwos ' Diseases Hospital. £2000; Cambridge Sanatorium. £3500. Harbour works: Waipu. improvement of river. £500; Cmehuiiga, removing obstruction and dredging near wharf £750; Mercury Bay : "Wharf, £250.

Harbour defences, £4000. Tourist and health resorts: Aroha, new buildings and improvements-. £750; Te Afo&a, improve«aents to Domain and gardens, iooo, Eotorua, new bath buildings (on account). £2000; Eotorua*, other buildings and. improvements. £2000; Rotorua, drainage works, (on account). £7000; Eotorua. electrical works, ,£2000; Eotorua, reserves, plantations, and gardens. £500; o ßot °™ a water supply (on account. £20.250). *"*«» Kgongotaha, road improvements. £50; Oftau Channel, snagging, clearing, etc.. £10; vvaimangu. roads, tracks, fencing, etc., £200; Waimangu. house and outbuildings, £200; Wllinkarewarewa, improvements and buiiuliij;s in reserve, £600. Assistance by way of reduced fares towards .passage* for settlers from the United King"dojin, £2350.