PUBLIC WORKS ESTIMATES.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXIV, Issue 11122, 9 November 1907, Page 5

PUBLIC WORKS ESTIMATES.

SOME BIG VOTES,

(Fi'om oui* Parliamentary Reporter.) WELLINGTON, this day. . The total amount proposed to be voted for Public Works is £2,106,951, as against £2>352,789 voted, and the £2,---040,319 expended last year. Ih addition there is the Hutt railway votoj £70,000; Railways Improvement Authorisation Act Account, £200,000 ; and loans to local bodies amount to £40,000. Details of the votes of interest are given below :— Public Works Department.— Under secretary, raised from £750 to £800, chief clerks f rPtti £390 to £400 ; the land purchase officers, one at £440, orte at £265, an, increase from. £42s to £705. • New Zealand Exhibiton, £250 for extra assistance ; total £500. Railways.— Survey of new lines of railway, £2000; permanent way material, £70,000 ; additions to open lines : Napier, New Plymouth, Wellington and Woodville, £19,755; Hurunui, Bluff, and Invercargill, £18,802; interlocking signal gear and fixed signals, £32,000 ; rolling stock £230,000; workshops and machinery, £15,000. * #... Utilisation of water power, general. — £2000; the sum of £53,000 was voted last year, and £4064 was expended. Public buildings.— Total vote, £251,---800 (liability at 31st March £34.813.) Parliament Buildings, alterations and rebuilding, £23,000. Departmental -buildings, £4700; oflice and laboratory, l geological and health departments, £5000, Christchurch Public Works "store, etc, £1800; landy buildings, store, etc^ £1000 ; preparation of lands, etc, £750 Agriculture — Ruakura experimental farm, £25000; Weraroa (Levin), £1000, Wellington (dairy produce grading stores) £100, dairy school £100. Hospital and charitable institutions, wards for special cases at the 4 centres, £2000. '■''■■. Asylums.— Auckland £2000, Welling, ton £2000, Porirua £2000, Nelson £400, Richmond Home for Defectives £2000, Sunnyside £3500, Seacliffe £5000, Waitati .£1275, Dunedin (the Camp), £5000, Recaution House (Auckland) £300. ■'■•/' Public Health.— Somes Island, new wharf, water supply, and hospital, £1000; Lyttelton, Quail Island, £3000; Bluff, £2000. V Hospital and Charitable Aid Board subsidies on cost of erection of infectious diseases hospitals : Auckland £2000, Hawke's Bay £1000, Wellington £2300, Otago and Southland £2300. Sanatorium and annexes for consumptives : Auckland £1000, Canterbury £9000, Otago and Southland £1000. School buildings, etc.— Giants to Education Boards for school buildings and additions, £45,000 ; grants to Boards for training colleges, Auckland £5000; Wellington £471, Christchurch £157, Dunedin £5000. Grants to technical schools: Buildingsy site, etc., £25,000. Home for defectives, . £1000 ; schools for deaf mutes, Sumner, £9000; native schools, Weraroai, £3000 ■; Wellington Receiving Homo £1000, Christchurch Receiving' Home £2000 ; ;Te Orangi Home . £iOOQ, Burnham £2000, Cavensham (drainage) £3500; Otago University, new buildings ,• for mining school, £4000. Lighthouses. —Connection pf lights houses by telegraph, £12001, fog signals £750. Harbor defences £5000. Tourist andv health resorts.— Rotorua, new bath buildings £20,000; drainage works £4000, electric works £2000, water supply £9000, Hanmer £7500, Mount Cook hermitage, new tion house, £5000. V < Immigration passages- for separate families, £9000 ; assistance by way of reduced fares from the United Kingdom, £8900./ ■ Roads Department, £20,850; roads construction and maintenance, £390,238; tourist roads, £27,463. Roads and other works on goldfields and mine lands, £41,000. yk y ' kj,. Development of goldfields.-— Assistance towards races, etc., £10,000;, assistance towards prospecting, £10,000 ; assistance towards prospecting for, minerals other than gold, £1000.;' diamond drills and appliances, £5000; prospecting deep levels at Ross Flat, £5000; Jesting deep y levels' at Thames,' £1000; advances andf subsidies to companies for: development y*ot mining, £5000 ; Alexandra water rates, £3000. Purchase of native lands, £7000. Telegraph extension, £105,000, including £50,000 for telegraph and telephone extensions,, £10,000 for metallic circuit cable, £5000 for trunk metallic telephone circuits, and £40,000 for new telephone exchanges and contingencies. Defence (total £14,200).— 5ix field guns and carriages, £3000 ; drill sheds, mobilisation stores, etc. , £8000 ; searchli ghts pl*antT£2ooo. „ ' Lands improvement.— lmproved farm -' settlements, Auckland , Taranaki; ; and Wellington, £4950. Miscellarieous: Piako Swamp, £6000; purchase of lands at Horowhenua Lake £500, irrigation and water supply (agricultural and mining-dis-tricts £3000. , Hutt railway and road, £70,000. , Railways improvement; — Auckland - Penrose duplication, £60,000 ; Addmg-ton-Rblleston duplication, " £40,000; Dunedin-Mosgiel duplication, £100,000. DISTRICT VOTES. The. following votes affecting Gisborne and Poverty Bay appear on the ■ Public Works estimates :— Cbui-thouse Tolaga Bay, £700. Post and telegraph. — Port Awanui £500, Waipiro Bay quarters £325, Nuhaka £500, Wairpa £450. Agricultural.— Gisborne ; residence for stock irispector £600, Gisborne office £250," Wairoa office £250. V Tourists resorts. — Waikaremoana, wharf, etc. ; £100, new buildings £50; Morere bath houses, etc., £50. * Roads. — Kowhai £150, Mptu to Opotiki £150 Opotiki County flood damage (£ for £) £100, Pakihi (H.B. district section) £350, Philp road £150, Woiana river to Waihau Bay £100, Whinray road £150, Bushy Knoll road £1?5, Fraser road (near Motu) £300, Gisbonie to Hangaroa £140, Gisborne to Rotorua £150, Gisborne to Waiapu via Kaiinanga £150, Gisborne to Wairoa (deviation) via Te Arai Valley £600, Gisborne to Wairoa County boundary via Tiniroto £1000, Hangaroa river bridge (stock, Berry road) £112, Hangaroa river bridge No. 1 (Gisborne to Waikaremoana) £500, Hangaroa to Aroha £50, Hangaroa to Tahora (Steele's) £600 Hangaroa , Valley £100, Hangaroa to Waikaremoaha £400, Hauiti (£ for £) £100, Karaka to Waihora £100, Kawakawa to Ahowatariki (£ for £) £250, Kopuapoun.amu Valley £250, Mangaharei to Waiomatatini (Waiapu inland) £100, Mangapoike Valley (east end— on account^ of, £1500) £800, Mata river traffic bridge (£ for £) £400, Mata river to Waitahiaa £100, Matawhero £250, Motu to Motu bridge £250, Motu Valley £100, Neill road £670, Ngatapa to Motu £202, Ngatapa to Wharekopae river £100, Oliver road £75, Panikau to Arakihi £150, Poropord Valley £100, Pouparae £147, Poututu to Motu (£ for £) £750, Ruakituri Valley £550, Tapuwaeroa Valley £250, Tauranga Kotuku river road £150, , Tauwhareparae £200, Tokonui £300, Tuparoa to -Whangaparoa (inland track) £250, Waiapu inland (access to section 1, Block 1, Waingaromia) £160, Waiapu to Kawakawa (inland road) £250, Waiapu river traffic bridge (on account of £1200) £500, Waihau Bay to East. Cape £75, Waihora river bridge (Kanakanae) £300, Waihuka Valiey (£2OO £ for £)£iooy Waikohu Valley £200, Waimata £100, Waimata river bridges £1500, .Waimata to Arakihi £107, Waimata to Waiapu inland road (Todd's) ; £250, Waipaoa to Mangatu £75, Wai- , piro to Mata £100, Wai whero stream , bridge £250, Whakarau £65, Whare- , kopao to Tahora No. 2 £415.