PUBLIC WORKS ESTIMATES (From Our Own Correspondent.) WELLINGTON, September 16.

Otago Witness, Issue 2631, 17 September 1902, Page 45

PUBLIC WORKS ESTIMATES (From Our Own Correspondent.) WELLINGTON, September 16.

The following are items of general interest on the Estimates- — School for Deaf Mutes, new buildings (to cost £11,200), £7000 ; Home for Weak-minded and Epileptic Children, £1500; hospital wards for special cases at Auckland, Wellington, Christcnurch, and Dunedin, £2000 ; Sanatorium for Consumptives (on account), £6000; Hanmer additions, etc., £3000; ditto new swimming baths, £600. For contingent defence £95,000 is proposed to be voted. Last year's expenditure was £H6,376. There is an item of £2500 for a rifle range at Pelichet Bay, Dunedin. Under the heading of " Tourist Roads, etc." the following items appear on the Estimates- — Bealey Glaciers, £200 ; Mount Cook and glaciers, £303; Pukaki-Mount Cook, £274. Of the £68,727 voted for Southland roads and bridges last year only £27,196 was spent. This year there is provision for an expenditure of £51,435, on which there is a liability of £7047.

The following are the Mines Department votes for Otago, the liability at March 31 last being in parentheses: — Lawrence- Waipori road (£425), £650; Lawrence-Roxburgh road (£225), £600; Waitahuna-Lawrence (£150), £300; Waipon-Waitahuna (£300), £400; Waiporj- Bubli road (£150), £300; Lawrence County boundary (£476), £500; Fitzgerald's bridge (£1 for £I— £24oi, £740; BeaumontRanmeburn, £100; Beaumont-Millef's Flat, £200; Gentle Annie-Clyde, £400; Nevis Valley road, £200 ; Cromwell Borough-Low-burn, £100; Ophir bridge, £1000; ClydeCismwell (recurs). £son ; Crw»w«li-#»" la

£250; Arrowtown to Macetown (£100), £300 ; Shotover River track, £200 ; GarstonNevis (£150), £250; Arrovr-Cardroua, via Crown Terrace (£150), £300; QueenstownGentle Annie, £300; Arthur's Point-Moke Creek (£4O), £150; Arrow Fall=, £300: Car-drona-Pembrokp . % £100; Arthur's PointArrowtown, £100 ; Sawyers' Gully road, £100 ; Lawrence, Clyde, Vincput, and Tuapeka, £1000. Under the heading " Tourist Roads, etc' the following items appear: — QQueenstown wharf, £56; Southland-Clifden-Manapoun, £500; Manapouri-Flaxy Creek, £168: Mana-pouri-Te Anau, £149 ; Mararoa bridge, £500; Mossburn-Manapouri, £200; Moss- | burn-Te Anau, £250 : Te Anau George 1 Hound. £66; "Te Anau jetty, £45; Te AnauSutherland Falls. £1497; Te Anau-Waka-tipu, £1000; fiords, £119: ManapouriDoubtful Bay, £163 ; Manapouri-Dusky Sound, £530. " The following items are down for Otago public buildings: — Dunedin Law Courts, £4800 (£2881) ; Campbelltown -courthouse, £500 ; Orepuki courthouse, £600 ; gaoler's residence, Dunedin, £800 ; Invercargill gaol and land, £2000 ; Oamaru police' sergeant's quarters, £500 ; Dunedin police station, King street (new offices), £550; Gore police quarters, £550 ; Invercargill police station, £550 ; Dunedin telegraph office additions, £2500 (liability £2196) ; Dunedin postal alterations and renovations, £5000 ; Morniugton postal, £500; Clyde postal, £600; Tapanui postal quarters, £700 ; Waikaka postal, £250; Gore postal, £3250 (liability £2358); Wmton. postal, £800.