FINANCE BILL.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 20591, 14 December 1928, Page 8

FINANCE BILL.

LIST OF APPROPRIATIONS. MONEY FOR DEVELOPMENT WORKS. (Special to Dailt Times.) \ , • WELLINGTON, December 13. The Finance Bill introduced by bh» Prime Minister (Sir Joseph Ward) in the House of Representatives to-night provides fo r the following appropriationsOut of the General Purposes Account of the Public Works Fund, for the purposes of railway construction (vote 42) ... £500,000 Out of the General Purposes Account of the Public Works. Fund, for the construction, maintenance, and supervision of roads, bridges, and other public works (vote 58) ... 100,000 Out of the Electric Supply Account of the Public' Works Fund, for th§ development of water power (vote 67) ... ... 100,000 Out of the Revenue Fund of the Main Highways Account for the maintenance of main highways (vote 72) 50,000 Out of the Construction Fund of the Main /Highways Account, for the construction of main r. highways (vote 75) ... 50,000 Out of the State Forests Account, for the purpose, of the State'Forest service Other clauses provide for extending the annual authority to borrow money, for the acquisition of lands for settlement, for an increase of the aggregate amount that may bo paid to local authorities by way of subsidy on expenditure l in relief of unemployment, and for an extension of the duration of the existing law as to the restriction of rent hmtil August 1. 1929. . '