POLICE STATIONS.

Timaru Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 3382, 29 September 1900, Page 4

POLICE STATIONS.

I The principal work under this head last year was the completion of the new station at Auckland, on which the total expenditure has amounted to £7170, of which £6088 was expended during the late financial year. The other principal works were new stations at Cambridge, Moka-u, Kimbolton, and Kaikoura, new quarters at the Thames, and additions or extensive renovations at Pnkekohe, Dannevirke, Opunoke, Manaia, Normanby, Mart on, Wellington, Ahuura, Greymouth, Kaiapoi, Christchurch. Snutiibridge, Timaru and Fairlie. Tho principal works provided for this year are new stations at Hamilton Wer-t, Glsborne. FenViinjj. Alcaroa, Waikouaiti, Arrowtown, Roxburgh, Outram and Invercargill, new quarters at Waipawa, New Plymouth. Kelson, Westport. Timaru, Quee'iu-.sown, and Bluff, purchase of additional land at Kaiapoi, and additions or extensive repairs at Daigaville, Aratapu. Warkworth, Auckland, Xganmwahia, Gisborne, Napier, Olive, Inglcwood, Hawera, Waverley.Kimbolton. Upper Hutt, Lower Hutt, Blenheim, Lyell. Reef ton, Hokitika, Cheviot. Rangiora, Southbrdge, Glenavy, Caversham, Lawrence, and Winton. TOST AND TELEGRAPHS. The principal expenditure on post and telegraph buildings occurred in connection with the following : —New offices at Parnell, Mangawcka, Masterton, Petone, South Wellington, Renwicktown. Wn-kupuuka, Nev,- Brighton, Mosgie!, Millets Flat, and Bluff, also additions or extensive renovations at Te Aroha, Hamilton, Hokitika, Ashburton, and Mataura. This year provision is made for new offices at Durfjaville, Aratapu, Ponsonby, Onehunga, Karangnhape, Hamilton, Tarawera, Gisborna, Tnglewood, Opunake, Wanganui, Feilding, Levin, Wereroa, Eketahuna, Takaka, Denniston, Kaikoura, Papanui, Sumner, Ashburton, Temuka, Shag Point, Caversham, Naseby and Gore, and for additions or extensive repairs at Auckland, Otahnhn, Rotorun, Wairoa, New Plymouth, Hawera, P.-ilmerston North. Nelson, Greymouth, Christ-church. Lyttclton, Timaru, Oamaru. Bunedin, Clyde, Cromwell, Alexandra, Roxburgh and Kaitangata. LUNATIC ASYLUMS. The expenditure on r.cv.- works i c .t our asylum buildings last year was almost exactly the same as during the previous year, namely, £17,712, against ±)17,667. The principal expenditure was again in connection with the Porinia. Asylum, which absorbed £11,096. TII3 other items do not call for special mention. This year another substantial vute is provided towards completing the Porinia- Asylum, and also substantial though smaller votes for additions, stenm, electric lirjht, and other appliances at Seacliff, additions at Auckland, Wellington add Nelson, and minor works elsewhere. SCHOOLS. The amount voted for school buildings last year was £84,700, namely, £25,000 under the Consolidated Fund, and £59,700 under the Public Works Fund. The expenditnre amounted to £74,237, namely, £25,000 under the former, and £49,257 under the latter fund. This year we ask for a total vote of £80,555, namely, £25,---000 under the Consolidated Fund and £55,---555 under the Public Works Fund. As honourable members are aware, the duty of expending this money is entrusted to the several Education Boards, the only works directly controlled by the Government being the Industrial and Native Schools, and the school for deaf mutes. Native schools were erected last year, or are now in course of erection, at Parengarenga, Tapuacharuru, Oromahoe, Touwai, Rakamanga Raorao, Waitapu, and Teharoto, also additions at Nuhaka and Koroniti, and the Maungatapu School was ret t moved to Papa-moa. A new site for the . school for deaf mutes was purchased, and s the rebuilding works at Caversham Industrial School were completed. This ' year provision i% made for the building ret cently purchased for an Industrial School at Mount Albert, Auckland, also for an Ini dustrial School for boys at Wellington, and a reformatory for girls in Canterbury, , and for new buildings for the school for [ deaf mutes, and additions to the Industrial ' School buildincr at Burnham, etc. * | LIGHTHOUSES HARBOUR WORKS \ AND HARBOUR DEFENCES, j The only expenditure last year in connec- » tion with new lighthouses was for land com- ; pensation at Cape PaUiser, and for further works on the new building at East Cape. This year provision is made for the comf pletion of the East Cape lighthouse, and for j a new light at Kaiourangi Point, and for i the connection of sundry lighthouses with 3 the telegraph system of the colony. The . expenditure on- harbour works was trifling ( in amount, being only £365. This year a . much larger expenditure is provided for, s the principal items of which are as follows : , — "ew wharves at Maungaturoto, ManuT kan (sand spit), Mokou, Karamea, Brace t Bay and Okcru, also for snagging tho Moj kou, Manawatu and Little Wanganui rivt ers, for repairs to the wharf at Oknrito, • A « harbour improvement works at . Oollingwood, etc. The vote for harbour . defences last year was £10,000, but owing t to the military authorities being so much > occupied with the despatch of the Contin- . gents to South Africa and other matter*. . less attention was given to our harbour deg fences than would otherwise have been tho . case, so that the expenditure fell a good T deal short of the vote. A large amount j of work is required this year, including the 3 construction of a new battery at Welling--1 ton m a more advantageous position than . any of the existing forts, also some very , necessary worki of defence in connection , with our chief coal porta. The vote pro- } posed for the current year is £20,000 r £%/££" v °*« for contingent defence was ( £40,000, which, however, was slightly exceeded, the total expenditure amounting to £42,810. This year a vote of £100 000 is provided for. CONCLUSION. > members may rest assured . that the allocations of the money for the : various works has received most careful , consideration, and while there may be some i disappointment with regard to the amounts i set down for particular works, lam confident that it will be admitted that the all location has been made upon a fair basis i and with a view to promoting the best interests of the colony.