THE ESTIMATES.

Otago Witness, Issue 3624, 28 August 1923, Page 22

THE ESTIMATES.

The following are some of the estimated amounts required to be voted for the current year ending March 31, 1924: —- RAILWAY CONSTRUCTION. Kaihu railway .extension, £SOOO. North Auckland Main Trunk—Huarau, northwards, £257,000; Whangarei branch, £20,000; Waipu branch, £IO,OOO. North Island Main Trunk, £20,000. East Coast Main Trunk —Paeroa-Pokeno, £5000; Waihi-Taneatua (including Mount branch), £260,000; Gisborne - Napier, £150,000; Waikokopu branch, £120,000. Opunake branch, £75,000. Stratford-Main Trunk, £115,000. Wellington - Paekakariki deviation, £IO,OOO. Wellington-Wairarapa railway, Rimutaka deviation, £IO,OOO. Midland—Glenhope-Murchison, £30,000; Otira-Bealey, £150,000. Westport-Inangahua, £50,000. Greymouth-Point Elizabeth, £SOOO. Orepuki-Waiau extension, £20,000. Lawrence-Roxburgh, £90,000. Land claims, damages or losses on goods in transit, and other liabilities, £IOOO. Surveys, new lines of railway (including Paekakariki deviation, Rimutaka deviation, Balclutha-Tuapeka Mouth, Gore-Hedgehope, and other lines previously provided for as separate lines), £4OOO. Permanent way materials, £70,000. PUBLIC BUILDINGS. Parliament Buildings, £4OOO. Alexandra (purchase of property for clerk's residence), £605. Dunedin (providing new landing-place for explosives), £65. Dominion Museum (on account), £SOO. Wingatui magazine (erection of magazine and additional land). £2OOO. COURTHOUSES. Balclutha Courthouse, £IOOO. Cromwell Courthouse (strong room), £3OO. PRISON BUILDINGS. Invercargill Estuary farm (reclaiming and draining), £3OOO. Invercargill (main building), £SOOO. Invercargill (warders’ cottages), £2OOO. Invercargill (workshops and swimming baths), £IOOO. Paparua (Templeton!, £9OOO. POLICE STATIONS. Clyde (constable’s residence), £I2OO. Dunedin (Anderson’s Bav, site and building). £I4OO Dunedin (N.E. Yallev, site and building), £I2OO. Dunedin (St. Clair, site and building), £I3OO. Invercargill (inspector’s residence), £I4OO. Kurow' (offices), £l5O. Middlemarch, £I3OO. Oamaru, £I2OO. Palmerston, £ISOO. Port Chalmers (site and building). £3OOO. Timaru (inspector’s residence), £ISOO. * Tuatapere (office, lock-up, and stable), £460. Waikawa (additions), £250. Waikiwi (offices and lock-up), £250. Waitati, £I3OO. POSTAL AND TELEGRAPH. Alexandra, £SOO. Dunedin (automatic telephone exchange), £BSOO. Dunedin General Post Office (on account), £20,000. Dunedin (motor garage, additional), £350. Dunedin (telegraph engineer’s yard, blacksmith’s shop), £75. Hyde, £3OO. Invercargill (additions), £IOOO. Invercargill (motor workshop and shed). £570. Middlemarch, £1750. Mosgiel (on account), £SOO. Orari, £350. Roxburgh (garage), £2lO. Tarras, £350. Timaru (additions, etc., including new clock). £75. Waipahi (purchase of property and alterations), £605. AGRICULTURAL. Galloway experimental area, (overseer’s oottage), £SO. Kurow (stable), £l2O. Ranfurly (poisoning depot), £SO. MENTAL HOSPITALS. SeaclifT, £34,750. Waitati, £6250. HOSPITALS AND CHARITABLE INSTITUTIONS. Christchurch, St. Helens (site of new buildings), £40,893. Dunedin St. Helens, £3925. Hanmer, Queen Mary Hospital, £53,530. Invercargill St. Helens, £3760. Lyttelton, Quail Island (including leper hospital), £5310.

LIGHTHOUSES. Cape Campbell (including dwellings). £2O. Puysegur Point (wireless outfit), £250. TOURIST AND HEALTH RESORTS* Milford Sound (erection of accommodation house, on account), £IOOO.Mount Cook, Fox and Franz Josef Glaciers (huts, tracks, bridges, etc.), £2OO. Mount Cook Hermitage (additions to hostel and installation of hot-water service), £3OOO. Te Anau (jetties, slip, oil launch, etch £SO. IMMIGRATION. Administration and general expenses (England and New Zealand), £9BOO. Amount to cover grants to and accommodation and other excuses for immigrant* arriving in New Zealand, £2OOO. Amount required to cover cost of cashing British Treasury notes for immigrants arriving in the dominion, £IO,OOO. Exchange on cheques, £5. Passage money in payment of reduced fares for immigrants, other than nominated immigrants, themselves applying for re-duced-rate passages to New Zealand to the High Commissioner in London— Passage money for immigrants. £210,000. Passages and other expenses for immigrants returned as undesirable, and contingencies, £SOO. Portion of salaries in High Commissioner’s Office, London, £6OOO. Refunds of passage money, £IO.OOO. Temporary assistance (including uniform cost of living increase to scale salaries or wages, which is subject to revision as cost of living rises or falls), £250.