PUBLIC BUILDINGS

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXVII, Issue 8588, 26 November 1913, Page 4

PUBLIC BUILDINGS

TOTAL REQUIRED. £486,000. The sum required to be voted for public buildings -in the Dominion for 1913-14 is £486,009. The liability on March 31et was £80,911. leaving a total sum required of £495,089. The following are details of the buildings, etc-, for the various departments: £ General 80.000 Judicial 40.009 Postal and telegraph 110.000 Agricultural 6,000 Mental hospitals 50,000 Hospitals and charitable institutions i 10,000 Public health School buildings 125,000 Workers' Dwellings 65.000 Total 48G.000 Tho chief items affecting the Wellington and surrounding districts aro given below-, with the amounts voted last year in parenthesis:— ’ > Dominion - Museum, £2OOO (revoted), ■ Government Printing Office, £SOOO (£4000). r , Public Works workshop, store and storekeeper’s residence (on account), Wellington Supremo Court. £IOOO. „ , , .. Martinborough Courthouse and site, £9OO (£560). Palmerston North, police gaol, £SOO. POLICE STATIONS. The following votes appear for police stations: —Masterton, _ £3OOO (£20G)); Aftirtilnborougli (endditiibns). £SIM); Karori. £850: Kilbirnio (completing purchase of property). £200; Manners street, nevv station, £4600; Brooklyn, £750 (revoted): Eastbourne. £BSO (revoted); Islajnd Bay. £BOO (revoted): Mount Cook (sergeant's residence), £7OO (reyoted); Lambton quay, new site and building, £IO.OOO. POST OFFICES. ETC. Blenheim, accommodation for automatic exchange, £1500; Ekotahuna (additions) £6O; Khaudallah. new building. £850; Masterton. automatic exchange, £1500: Kiwitea (additions). £400; lalmereton North, additions. £2000; Petone, additions. £750; Pongaroa, alterations. £131; Wellington, automatic exchange. £3000; Brooklyn, new building, £?l>0; Wellington bulk store, £5204; Wellington G.P.0., additions, £6975; Hataitai, building, £750; Island. Pay, site and building. £1000; Karon, building, £250 (revoted); Wellington workshop and machinery, £460; Wellington Telephone Exchange, additional accommodation. £351; Waterloo quay eewer, £336 (revoted): Worser Bay, wharf and store site, The estimated amount required' for class XIX, lighthouses, labour ’ ivmks, and harbour defences for 1913-14 is £-1, 375 The liability on March 31st last 41527 and the amount voted last year w-as £2400-2, of which £16,785 was 6 Following are items of interest:—Karori Rock light. £2500: removal and re-erection of Marine Department s 0 0; Foxton harbour, deepening river, £250 (revoked). TOURIST RESORTSThe total vote for class XX, tounst and health resorts for 1913-14 ls . A l6 ’“^ s The liability on March , 31 ®t £-1791 and last year’s vote was £15,500. of which £12.906 was expended.