PUBLIC WORKS ESTIMATES.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 14048, 19 July 1916, Page 4

PUBLIC WORKS ESTIMATES.

RAILWAY CONSTRUCTION VOTES.' (From- Our Parliamentary: Reporter.) WELLINGTON, this jday. •" Details of tlie x railway construction votes -are as follOws,Ushowing.thd' ; current vote andYJa'st; year's , expenditure - Using, given- within : — KaihU i^ilway r. extelision£iOOO (±Jl2,Bsß)7Kawa; :cawa>Hokianga £10,000 (£18,639) ; North' Auckland -Main' Trunk, Kirikopuni •< south! £1000 ' (£532<) ; Kaiwaka. 'northward, £30,000 (£40,649); Wliangarei, North Auckland Main Trunk, 4_0,000 (£62,321); Waipu branch *£1000 : (£289) ; Waiuku branch £15,000 (£20,301); Huntly-Awaif.oa £200 (£l4---ffl); East Coast' Main Tiunk-Waihi--rauranga £10,000 (£14,356); Tauranga* -_c Maunga £10,000 (£6199) | Maunga-„ui-Taneatua!- ■ £25,000 (£4801) ; Gis-borae-oMtu £6000 (£4827) ; Napier-Uis- ' mrne, Uisboine-Wairoa £20,000 (£47;. il6); Wairoa-GisbonJe £10,000 (£990); \\Y: pier- Wairoa, £20,000 (£17,249)'; Mti tigmont branch £100 (£230) ; Opunake nanch £25,000 (£25,205) ; Stratford \lain Trunk £70,O0O ; (£7i,626) ; Raetihi <vlain Trunk £15,000 (£20,314) ; Feather-ton-Martinborough £100.; South Island Main Trunk £10,000 (£13,692); Mid-f.and-Nelson end £8000 "(£8382)-; Reef ton oiid £100. (£196) ;' Otira-Bealey £60,000 £74;173)'; Brbkeiv River tb Beaiey £1000 /- (£576); Westpork-Inangahua' J3200 (£9034); Grey mouth-Point Elizabeth £100 (£76); Culverden-Wajau '£20,000' (£9653);- Waiihate branch extension £200' (£9385); Lawrence-Rox-burgh £500 (£1000)'; Otago central £15,000' (£14;584).; Balcliitha _atfpeka .Mouth 1 £200 (£41); Catlihs^Waimahaka £200 : (£1223); Winton-Heddon bush |v f £6ooo' (nil) 5 " Oreptiki-Waiau extension £1200 (£s7_>) ■';■ land claims,, damages or losses 011. goods' in- transit '-and' 1 other liabilities £1000 (£283) ! ; surveys new s lines of railvvay £2000 (£1613) ;. permanent' way; materials' £70,200 '(£87,846). ' The expenditure on Parliament building _st year was'- £16,602. The currentvote is £50;000. : WnikeiiA. prison, farm £6000. On account of Pomt 1 Halswell gaol, £3000;' Sempleton gaoi; £SOOOV - Land and- Buildings : Th'e reformatory institutions at Auckland and Wellington have £1000 each on account of land buildings. 'The* Education Department 1 grants for school buildings, sites, and . furnishing, total £98,000, compared' with £55,000 voted lastj year ; training colleges £1000 (last year £12,000); technical schools £16,000' (last year „14;000) ; secondary schools £8000 (last year £14,000) ; University colleges £5000 (last -year-' £13,---000). Except-' for interesting variations m the votes for education buildings, the -public-'- works estimates 1 ate absolutely barren of new features. • The' - road ' grants are repetition's of last' year's' u'rtexpended balances. The railway construction appropriations total £500,000, including £321,300 for North Island lilies, and £178,700 for South Island lines. Last year's expenditure was £562,919. Additions to open lines vote was £500,000 last f year-; riow the total is £350,000. The following district- items appear bn the works estimates :, Departmental Building, Gisborne, £_X); excluding „1800< spent last' year 5 ; ■ Public Works 1 store, £400 ; workshop, £200 ; Gisborne gaol, £200-; warder's cottage, £150; Gisborne Post' Office, addition's £5000; k Te Puis, bathhouse ' improvements, £250. 'V ■'■ mmmmmmmmmmmmmmm*.