ESTIMATES FOR YEAR.

Thames Star, Volume LXV, Issue 18333, 3 November 1931, Page 3

ESTIMATES FOR YEAR.

PRESENTED LAST NIGHT.

Votes for the District.

MUiCH REDUCED ’ FIGURES

WORKS IN THREE COUNTIES,

(Special to “Star.”) WELLINGTON, Nov. 3 The Public Works Statement was presented to* the House last evening by the Rt. Hon. J. G. Coates, Minister of Public Works. “The Statement covers 26 pages, and ’ deals with the work of the year. The expenditure for the perio totalled £8,388,529, of which railways aifd roads absorbed £4,481,333. Strange to say, there is no mention of Thames’ new post office m the Statement but it says that the plans and specifications have also ■been prepared for the new post office building at Taumarunm and tenders will be called shortly. On the estimates, however, appears .the to - lowing: Thames (on account ot £iu,000), amount voted £SOOO estimated amount required to be voted, £SOOO. District Works. The following amounts appear foi works in the district. Harbour Works. Whitianga wharf, £1 for £l, f2OOO. Tryphena wharf, £2 for £l, £IOOO. Roads and Bridges-Coromandel County. Amodeo Bay to Colville (£2 for £1), £1 Big Bay Bridge (£250 on account of £750, £2 to £1), £250. VolvlUe to Port Jackson (Pantu southwards section), (£79, £1 for £». £279. Coromandel to Colville, £2783. Coromandel to Wh'angapoua (£177, £2 for £1), £289. Cupp’s Road, £IOO. Hare’s access road, £2lO. Hikuai-Tairua-Whenuakite Roau, Kapowai Stream Bridge, £427. Kapowai Stream Road (Hodges access). (42. for £1), £133. Kaimarama to Coroglen ( account of £2500, £2 for £1). £s9l ’ Kennedy Bay Road (£2 for £1), £IOO- - ere -Papa- Ar oha (£2 for £1), £l27 ‘ „ for Kuaotunu to Mercury Bay (£2 for ; £1), £270. Kuaotunu to Opito, £350. Kuaotunu-Waitari Bay, £lO7. Marr’s Road, £299. .. Mercury Bay Ferry toß ahe >-« ’ Mercury Bay-Whenuakße, £6OO • Mill Creek Bridge (£BOO on account of £1775), (Kaimarama-Coroglen R •) £BOO. ' .-

Mill Creek Road, £75. Muriwai Valley Road, £37. Otakeao Road, £SO. Port Jackson to Fletchers, £IOO. Tapu to Coroglen (No Gum Cree Bridge), £440. , f Te Rerenga to Coromandel (£2 for £1), £2OO. ■ ■ ••• ; for Te Rerenga to Whangapoua (£? for £1), £26 * ' 1 , ffiß Waikawau Valley Road, £6B. *Whenuakite-Tairua for £2OO. Hauraki Plains* County. Awaiti Block Roads (Netherton to Hauraki Plains, Awaiti), (£1 for £1), Hopai Road (extension), (£2 for £1), £1176. Kaihere to Ohinewai, £IOOO. Kaihere to Torehape, £965. Kerepeehl Block Roads (£1 for £D. £469. ' rl . Mangatarata Bridges (£2 for £D. £420. „ Mangatarata Roads (£2 for » £2388.

Miranda-Waitakaruru, £2777. Patetonga Landing Hoad (£3 for £D £1651.. „ ‘ Through main road (£4 for £6822. Vinsen’s Flat Deviation, £2_,o. Waitakaruru-Miranda Back Koad, £687. / Thames County. Hikuai to Tairua (on account of. £3400, 02 for £1), £750. Hikuai-Whangamata Road (£4OO, £2 for £1). f6OO- - Road (£1 for £1), £IOO. K'auaeranga South Road (£1 for £1), £628. Neavesville-Hikuai Road (£1 or £1), £SO. Puriri-Neavesville Road (£2 for £1), £750. Tapu to Coroglen, £3OO. Tararu Creek Road, £IOO. Waihi-Whangamata (Williamson s deviation), £IOOO. Warahoe East Road (£B6, It for £1). £386. Whangamata-Hikutaia (£SO, £1 - 01 £1), £250.

Lands, Miscellaneous, etc,

Hauraki Pastoral Areas— Thames, Ohinemuri and Coromandel (formation, construction and compensation), £2OO. Hauraki Plains West Drainage Board, widening and deepening drains (£1 for £2), £320. .Hauraki United Drainage Board , (,£74, £1 for £2, £52, £1 for £3), £126. Horahia Drainage Board (£1 for £3), £225.

Piako River stop-banks near Ngatea (£2 for JEI), £793. , Waihou and Ohinemuri Rivers Improvement (construction works), £25,000. Waitakaruru Canal, widening anc deepening on account of £3900 (£1 for £1), £IOOO. Main Highways. No. 2 Highway District—-paeroa-Kopu (free), £2750. Pipiroa-Coromandel (free, ,£412; £2 for £l, £1733), £2145.