PUBLIC WORKS.

Waikato Times, Volume 114, Issue 19100, 10 November 1933, Page 7

PUBLIC WORKS.

THE YEAR’S ESTIMATES.

DETAILS OF EXPENDITURE.

LARGE INCREASE SHOWN

TOTAL VOTE OVER. £3,000,000. (Special to Times.) WELLINGTON, Thursday. Details of the Public Works Department estimates for the year 1033-34, which were presented to the House of Representatives this evening together with the Budget, dlsolose a total vote to publlo works and kindred expenditure of. £3,191,916, as compared with a vote of £2 '* BB ’°** last year, an Increase of over £700,000. Th® main highways vote, whloh Is not Included In the above total, amounts to £l,zt> ,- 000, of whloh £200,000 Is to be utilised In highway contraction, the balance being absorbed by maintenance and administrative oharges. Included in the General Purposes Account, the total vote for which is £2 322»915, are the following Items, (last year’s vote being given in parentheses) :—Railway, construction, £-5, 700 (£100,000); railway imP™'’ 6 ' ments and additions, £310,000 (£llO,000); public buildings, /l?. 6 - 1 * 0 ® (£174 004); development of torn is i, resorts, £21,000 (£21,000); construction and maintenance of roads, bridges, etc., £445,000 (2497,03-1), telegraph extensions, £230,000 (£IOO, 000); lands Improvement, £120,000 (£114,000); irrigation, water-supply and drainage,. £BO,OOO (£70.000) , settlement of unemployed workers, £500,000 (£500,000). The electric supply account shows an Increase from £612,000 to £869,000 for the present year, the sum ot £102,500 being allotted for new works and material for the Horahora-Ara-puni scheme. Increases in expenditure are shown especially in the case of railway, improvements, where the additional amount voted is £200,000, and In telegraph services which have increased by £130,000. Smallen increases have been made also in the allotments for public buildings, lands improvement, and irrigation and drainage. On the other hand there is a substantial reduction in the railway construction estimates from £IOO.OOO to £25,700, while road construction expenditure has been slightly reduced. The item of £232,900, set apart for native ’and settlement is an addition to this year s estimates, having been previously included In the Consolidated Fund Estimates.

Road Construction Estimates. Details of the voted amounts for road and bridge construction and maintenance in the Waikato district are as follows (according to counties, particulars of subsidy in parentheses): Waikato County. Kopuku Settlement Road (£1 for £1 subsidy), £250: Kopuku to Whangamarino Falls (£250 and £1 for £1), £1621*; Man grate a Road. £150; Maramarua-Mlranda Road (£1 for £1), £280; Pukexvhau to Lake Road, £2,391*; Settlers Road (£1 ror £H, £400; Taylor’s Road (Te Mlro Settlement), £4,500*; Te Kauwhata Block Road, £B3o*; Te Kauwliata to Tanlxvha Road (£1 for £1), £400; Waikato River Bridge (Fairlleld), (£1 Tor £2, up to £B,000), £2,000; Whangamarino Island Block (Mercer-Mardonr Road), £4,900*. Walpa County. Eyre’s Road (£1 ror £1), £160; Ham’s to Teddy’s Road (£1 for £1), £6O; Howden’s Road (£1 Tor £1), £6O; Mangare Road (£2 ror £1), £100; Payne’s Road (£1 ror £1), £SO; Ray.’s Road (£2 ror £1), £111; Wallace’s Road (£1 Tor £1), £6O; Walsh’s Road (£1 ror £1), £65; Webster’s Gate to Harris’s Crossing (£1 ror £1), £75. Raglan County. Craig’s Road (Walkcrea-Waimal), £4,055*; Glen Murray to Waimai, £3,668*; ' Hetherlngton’s Road (£2 for £1), £1,400; Matakltakl Road (£2 for £1), £500; Okete Road (£2 for £1), £200; Pukekawa Riding roads, £10,136*; Ruaklwl-Mangaltl-Te Akau, £9,550*; Shea Road, £Bls*; Smead’s Road (£1 Tor £1), (on account), £250; Te M'aarl and Union Roads, £4,870*; Tlko Tlko Road, £3,500*; Walkaretu to Bothwell’s Road, £2,850*; Walkaretu to Port Waikato, £6,027*; Walkokowal to Rotongaro (£1 for £1), £100; Waite’s access road, £l5O. Piako County. Hungahunga Road (£1 for £1), £120; Mangawhara Bridge (£2 Tor £1), £180; Peek’s Road (£1 Tor £1), £150; Walt! Road (£2 for £1), £367; Waltoa No. 4 Road (£1 for £1), £255; Waitoa No. 2 Road (£1 ror £1), £2BO. Matamata County, Buckland Road, £3,357*t; Gun’s Road (£1 for £1), £250; Harris Road, £300; Scherer’s Road (£l5O, £1 for £1), £3OO. * Part recoverable rrom Unemployment Fund. t Local authority to contribute part. Improvement of Lands. Estimates or expenditure on land improvement, comprising clearing, drainage, reclamation and protective works, include i the following allotments Tor local opera- ' lion’s: —Walhou River, upper, (clearing and I felling hush and scrub, drainage, etc.), £oy7• Ruawaro, (drainage), £800; Waikato Heads (sand dune reclamation). £2,000; Tahuna (drainage grant to 'l’nhuna Drainage Board, £ I ror £1 subsidy), £300; Tauplrl (drainage), £10,000; Walhou River (clearing willows between Te Aroha and Gordon Settlement), £2,300; Waikato River (silting survey), £SO; Whangapo Stream (widening and wiliow clearing), £5lO,