APPROPRIATIONS CHARGEABLE ON THE PUBLIC WORKS FUND AND OTHER ACCOUNTS FOR THE YEAR ENDING 31st MARCH, 1918.

Appendix to the Journals of the House of Representatives, 1917 Session I, B-07a

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1917-1918 NEW ZEALAND.

APPROPRIATIONS CHARGEABLE ON THE PUBLIC WORKS FUND AND OTHER ACCOUNTS FOR THE YEAR ENDING 31st MARCH, 1918.

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19 17-1918. Veto p ag e Vote Page 92—Additions to Open Lines .. ..10 RailwaysOS—Agricultural, Buildings .. .. ..16 92—Additions to Open Lines .. .. ..10 01—Railway Construction .. .. ..0 100—Back-blocks Roads, &c— —Railways Improvement Authorization Act, 1014, Auokland .. .. .. ..61 Account .. .. .. ..87 Blenheim .. .. .. ..68 ... ™ , Christohurch • • 69 Roads and other Public Works — Dunedin .. !'. '.'■ '.'.70 108-Roads, &c— Gisborne .. .. .. ..63 Auckland .. .. .. ..2b Greymouth .. .. .60 Blenheim .. .. .. ..47 Invercargill .. .. ..70 Chnstohuroh .. .. ..50 Nelson .. .. .. -.67 Dunedin .. .. .. ..52 Stratford .. .. .. -.65 Gisborne .. .. .. ..36 Tauranga .. .. .. ..63 Greymouth .. .. ..48 Taumarunui .. .. -.64 Invercargill .. .. ..56 Wanganui.. .. .. -.66 Napier .. .. .. ..42 Wellington .. .. .. 66 Nelson .. .. .. 40 Whangarei .. .. ..60 Stratford .. .. .. ..39 Tauranga .. .. .. .. 35 113-Contingent Defence .. 76 .. .. .. 38 90-Departmental, Public Works .. .. 5 Wellington .. .. .. 43 111-Development of Mining .. .. ..75 Whangarei .. .. ..22 122—Development of Water-power .. ..87 General .. .. .. ..60 122—Electric Supply Aooount.. .. ..87 rr J 110- Roads on Goldnelds— ••> « iu in m i \ 7i Auckland .. .. .. ..71 110-Goldfielda (Roads on) .. ~ ..71 Canterbury .. 73 10—Harbour Defences .. .. .. 19 NeUron™ 118 72 18—Harbour Works .. .. .. 18 Otago 74 Southland.. .. .. ..74 21—Immigration .. .. .. .. 21 West Coagt 72 114 Improved-farm Settlements .. ..77 116-Irrigation and Water-supply .. 78 121 _ Jiottdg to open up Land for BeUlements--121-Land for Settlements Account .. ..79 Auckland .. .. .. ..80 Blenheim .. .. .. .85 , , T . Christohurch .. .. 85 Lands Improvement— n ~ HK 114— Improved-farm Settlements .. .. 77 iJuneam .. .. .. "a? ~c t j t\t- ii r7r- Orisborne .. .. .. ..81 i«~r U9 '- '• 71 Greymouth 8.5 18-L.ghthouses .. .. ..18 Invercargill 86 111-Mining, Development of .. .. ..75 ;; ;; " |J xt .i i« 3 l i „„ Stratford .. .. .. ..82 National Endowment Account .. .. 88 Tauranca 81 117-Plant, Material, and Stores .. ..78 Wanganui"' " '.'. "It Public Buildings— Wellington" '.'. '.'. '.. 84 98— Agricultural .. .. ..16 Whangarei .. .. ..79 04— Courthouses .. .. ..12 General .. .. .. ..86 93— General .. .. .. ..11 100— Hospitals and Charitable Institutions 17 99— Mental Hospitals .. .. .. 16 112—Telegraph Extension .. .. .. 75 96— Polioe-stations .. .. .. 13 Telegraph Extension Account .. .. 88 97_ Postal and Telegraph .. .. 14 20—Tourist and Health Rosorts .. .20 95— Prisons .. .. .. .. 12 101— School Buildings .. .. .. 17 Waihou and Ohinemun Rivers Improvement 102— Workers'Dwellings .. .. ..17 Account .. .. .. ..88 t

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SUMMARY OF SERVICES CHARGEABLE OF THE PUBLIC WORKS FUND AND OTHER ACCOUNTS

1917 18. Page £ £ PUBLIC WORKS FUND. v^ 5 9 Class XVI. —Public Works, Departmental Class XVII.—Railways— £ Eailway Construction... 400,000 Additions to Open Lines 250,000 135,000 11 18 20 21 22 Class XVIII.—Public Buildings Glass XIX. —Lighthouses, Harbour Works, and Harbour Defences Class XX. —Tourist and Health Besorts Class XXI.—Immigration ... ... Class XXII.—Construction, Maintenance, and Supervision of Eoads, Bridges, and other Public Works Class XXIII.—Development of Milling Class XXI V.-—Telegraph Extension ... Class XXV. —Contingent Defence Class XXVI.—Lands Improvement ... Class XXVII.—Irrigation and Water-supply Class XXVIII.—Plant, Material, and Stores 650,000 316,940 7,765 5,200 7,500 451,085 1,450 250,000 15,000 15,000 30,000 15,000 75 75 76 77 78 78 Total —Public Works Eund ... - 11,899,940 LAND FOE SETTLEMENTS ACCOUNT (Eoads).. 100,000 79 87 ELECTRIC SUPPLY ACCOUNT 55,000 87 RAILWAYS IMPROVEMENT AUTHORIZATION ACT, 1914, ACCOUNT WAIHOU AND OHINEMURI EIVEES IMPROVEMENT ACCOUNT TELEGRAPH EXTENSION ACCOUNT NATIONAL ENDOWMENT ACCOUNT 250,000 88 20,000 88 96,689 88 2,379

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PUBLIC WOBKS FUND.

CLASS XVI.-PUBLIC WORKS, DEPARTMENTAL.

1917-18. No. 90.—Public Works, Departmental £ 135,000 Ot Item, £ £ MINISTEE OF PUBLIC WORKS. VOTE No. 90. Public Wobks, Departmental— Salaries — Administrative Division. 1 at £900 1 at £900 (also Marine Engineer, £100) £ 900 900 1,800 X , uw I Professional Division. 1 at £900 Class A — 2 at £700 1 at £650 Class B — 2 at £575 1 at £550 2 at £525 Class C — 2 at £480 1 at £460 1 at £450 3 at £440 2 at £420 Class D — 4 at £400 1 at £375 3 at £365 1 at £350 10 at £345 Class E— 18 at £300 8 at £280 14 at £260 3 at £235 2 at £210 Glass F— 8 at £180 4 at £160 5 at £140 5 at £120 1 at £110 3 at £100 lat£85 1,400 650 1,150 550 1,050 960 460 450 1,320 840 1,600 375 1,095 350 3,450 5,400 2,240 3,640 \ 705 420 1,440 640 700 600 110 300 85 900 2,050 2,750 4,030 ! 6,870 12,405 3,875 900 2,050 2,750 4,030

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;tem. 1917-18. MINISTER OF PUBLIC WORKS- -continued. £ £ VOTE No. 90— continued. ] Public Works, Departmental— continued. Salaries —continued. Clerical Division. Class II — £ 3 at £475 1,425 Glass III— 2 at £425 ... ... 850 1 at £385 ... ... 385 1,235 Class IV— 2 at £370 740 Class V— 6 at £315 ... ... 1,890 3 at £305 ... ... 915 4 at £290 ... ... 1,160 3,965 Class VI— 18 at £260 ... ... 4,680 5 at £245 ... ... 1,225 8 at £230 ... ... 1,840 2 at £230 (3 months) ... .... 115 7,860 A. Class VII— 14 at £220 ... ... 3,080 1 at £220 (1 month) ... ... 19 25 at £210 ... ... 5,250 1 at £210 (3 months) ... ... 52 8 at £200 ... ... 1,600 1 at £200 (2 months) ... ... 34 4 at £190 ... ... 760 5 at £180 ... ... 900 1 at £165 ... ... 165 1 at £165 (4 months) ... ... 55 5 at £150 ... ... 750 12 at £135 ... ... 1,620 14 at £120 ... ... 1,680 1 at £120 (1 months) ... ... 10 Glass VIII— 8 at £110 ... ... 880 7 at £95 ... ... 665 15 at £80 ... ... 1,200 3 at £65 ... ... 195 6 at £50 ... ... 300 15,975 3,240 General Division. 6 at £300 ... ... 1,800 3 at £290 ... ... 870 1 at £280 ... ... 280 1 at £280 (3 months) ... ... 70 3 at £270 ... 810 24 at £250 ... ... 6,000 1 at £250 (3 months) ... ... 62 4 at £240 ... ... 960 17 at £235 ... ... 3,995 3 at £230 ... ... 690 17 at £220 ... ... 3,740 2 at £220 (3 months) ... ... 110

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item. 1917-18. MINISTER OF PUBLIC WORKS—continued. £ £ VOTE No. 90— continued. Public Works, Departmental— continued. Salaries —con tinued. General Division— continued. £ 29 at £210 ... ... 6,090 1 at £208 ... ... 208 23 at £200 ... ... 4,600 1 at £200 (1 month) ... ... 18 9 at £190 ... ... 1,710 8 at £180 ... ... 1,440 3 at £170 ... ... 510 1 at £168 ... ... 168 1 at £160 ... ... 160 1 at £156 (2 months) ... ... 26 1 at £144 ... ... 144 1 at £130 ... ... 130 2 at £120 . ... ... 240 4 at £108 ... ... 432 1 at £108 (3 months) ... ... 27 3 at £96 ... ... 288 2 at £96 (2 months) ... ... 32 3 at £78 ... ... 234 2 at £66 ... ... 132 35,976 Less amount not required in respect to officers on active service 23,707 Less amount of salaries of officers employed on Lake Coleridge hydro-electric works — charged to such works ... ... 5,696 105,096 29,403 75,693 5 3 Other Charges for and incidental to — Allowance to Overseer H. Barrett, in respect to the retention of his services in connection with Arbitration case re Wellington Post-office contract Compassionate allowance to John Stringer, workman, for injuries received at Pipitea Point whilst unloading timber Compassionate allowance in respect to the death of Terehina Patuwai, accidentally killed by being struck by a piece of wood thrown by a blast on Ohakune-Eaetihi railway-works Equipment and other allowances, including lodging and any special allowances Expenses of Commissions ... Extra clerical, draughting, and office assistance Fidelity-guarantee policy premiums Law-charges and legal expenses Payment of accident expenses, &c, not provided for under the Workers' Compensation Act Payment of claim for iron, &c, supplied to Public Works Department, at Gisborne, and misappropriated by Public Works storekeeper ... Postage and telegrams, telephone connections, and rent of private letter-boxes and bags ... Printing and stationery, lithographic work, plans, periodicals, &c. 75 100 20 1,500 1,000 4,000 50 50 6 7 8 9 10 11 100 21 12 3,000 13 3,000

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tern. 1917-18. MINISTER OF PUBLIC WORKS— continued. £ £ 14 15 l(i 17 VOTE No. 90— continued. Public Works, Departmental— continued. Other Charges for and incidental to —continued. 4 Purchase of, and repairs to, instruments, office requisites, &c. • 5 Travelling-expenses and transfer expenses of officers 6 War bonus to officers of the Department 7 Contingencies, including unforeseen expenditure incidental to the other items of the vote 200 16,000 30,000 500 59,616 135,309 Less estimated credits under section 48 of the Public Eevenues Act, 1910 309 Total—Vote No. 90 ... 135,000 135,000 TOTAL CLASS XVI ... £135,000

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CLASS XVII.—RAILWAYS.

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1917-18. Vote No. 91. —Ealiway Construction ... £ 400,000 ,, 92.—Additions to Open Lines 250,000 Total—Class XVII 650 000 Item. £ £ MINISTEE OF PUBLIC WORKS. RAILWAY CONSTRUCTION (INCLUDING LAND AND MATERIALS). VOTE No. 91. Railway Construction — 1 Kaihu Bailway Extension North Auckland Main Trunk— 2 : Kawakawa-Hokianga 3 Kirikopuni, Southwards ... 4 Kaiwaka, Northwards 5 Whangarei-North Auckland Main Trunk 6 Waipu Branch 7 Waiuku Branch 8 | Huntly-Awaroa East Coast Main Trunk— 9 Waihi-Tauranga 10 Tauranga-Te Maunga 11 Maunganui-Taneatua 12 Gisborne-Motu Napier-Gisborne — 13 Gisborne-Wairoa 14 Wairoa-Gisborne 15 Wairoa-Napier 16 Napier-Wairoa 17 Mount Egmont Branch 18 Opunake Branch Stratford-Main Trunk— 19 East end 20 West end 21 ! Eaetihi-Main Trunk 22 Stone Quarry Line, Eangitikei River 23 Featherston-Martinborough... 24 South Island Main Trunk ... Midland— 25 Nelson end 26 Reefton end 27 j Otira-Bealey' 28 Broken River to Bealey 29 Westport-lnangahua 30 Greymouth-Point Elizabeth... 31 Culverden-Waiau 32 Waimate Branch Extension 33 Lawrence-Boxburgh 34 j Otago Central 35 j Balclutha-Tuapeka Mouth . . 36 Catlins-Waimahaka 37 ; Winton-Heddon Bush 38 Orepuki-Waiau Extension ... 39 Land-claims, damages or losses on goods in transit, and other liabilities 40 Surveys, new lines of railway 41 : Permanent-way materials 1,000 20,000 10,000 20,000 40,000 500 15,000 4,000 5,000 10,000 25,000 12,000 10,000 10,000 1,000 20,000 100 25,000 30,000 20,000 18,000 100 100 5,000 5,000 100 60,000 5,000 500 100 20,000 1,000 100 15,000 100 100 500 500 400,000 500 700 50,000 Total required for current year —Vote No. 91 ... 461,000

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tern. MINISTEE OF BAIL WAYS. 1917-18. ADDITIONS TO OPEN LINES. £ £ £ 8,176 1,410 0,000 1 2 3 4 5 VOTE No. 92. Additions to Open Lines— Way and Works Branch— North Island Main Lines and Branches South Island Main Lines and Branches .. Whangarei Section Picton Section Interlocking signal gear, fixed signals, tablet installation, telegraphs, and telephones Locomotive Branch — Boiling-stock Workshops machinery 38,176 41,410 10,000 2,519 2,519 7,895 5,000 5,000 '■ — 250,000 7,895 6 7 145,000 5,000 Total—Vote No. 92 TOTAL CLASS XVII £650,< £650,000

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CLASS XVIIL—PUBLIC BUILDINGS (Including Purchase of Properties, Sites, Furniture, Fittings, and Fencing; Rebuilding and Additions and Alterations to Buildings, Furniture, and Implements; also Water-supply, Drainage, &c.)

1917 -18. ote No 93. —General £ 41,250 ,, 94. —Courthouses 2,000 ,, 95.—Prisons 16,000 ,, 96.—Police-stations 25,000 ,, 97.—Postal and Telegraph ... 50 ,190 ,, 98.—Agricultural 7,000 99.—Mental Hospitals 45,000 ,, 100.—Hospitals and Charitable Institutions 10,000 ,, 101.—School buildings 100,500 ,, 102.—Workers' dwellings 20,000 ■ Total—Class XVIII 316,9 140 Item. ;em. £ £ MINISTEE OF PUBLIC WOEKS. VOTE No. 93. General— 1 Government House, Wellington Parliament Buildings— 2 New building's and alterations to grounds (on account) 1 80 2 50,000 7 8 9 10 Departmental Buildings — 3 Alexandra, Engineer's residence (purchase of property and improvements) 4 Auckland, Departmental buildings (electric lighting) 5 Auckland (Public Works store and yard), (on account) 6 Auckland (converting old post-office building into offices for Government Departments) Christchurch — 7 New building 8 Christchurch (Public Works store), (sidings) 9 Dunedin (Public Works store and yards) 10 Dunedin (converting old police-station into offices for Government Departments) 11 Gisborne (Public Works workshop) 12 Greymouth (Public Works store) 13 Nelson (additions and drainage) ... 14 Taumarunui (building), (on account) ... 15 Tauranga (additions, &c.) ... ... ... 3 4 5 6 550 700 3,000 1,300 100 160 3,000 11 12 13 14 15 4,000 350 700 400 1,000 100

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CLASS XVIII-PUBLIC BUILDINGS— continued.

Item. 1917-18. MINISTEE OF PUBLIC WORKS— continued. VOTE No. 93— continued. General— continued. Departmental Buildings —continued. Wellington— Accommodation for Government Departments at Central Police-station, Johnston Street Departmental Buildings (passenger elevator) ... Departmental Buildings (additional lavatory accommodation) Dominion Museum (on account) Government Printing Office (additions) New Fireproof Departmental Buildings (on account) Public Works workshop (machinery, improvements, &c.) Auckland (expenses re claim for compensation for land taken by Auckland City Corporation for street widening, Beach Road and Jennyn Street) Customhouse, Lyttelton (additions) Magazine at Dunedin Magazine at Greymouth . Re-erecting cairn (late Sir John MeKenzie) Development of inland fisheries, land and buildings (on account) ... ... Buildings and sites not specified £ £ 16 17 18 400 1,700 400 1,700 450 2,000 7,000 19 20 21 450 2,000 7,000 22 5,000 5,000 1,100 300 300 1,200 650 500 750 500 23 1,100 24 25 26 27 28 300 300 1,200 650 500 29 750 500 87,290 8^ 7,290 Total required for current year —Vote _No. 93 — 41,250 1 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 VOTE No. 94. Courthouses— Balclutha Dunedin (heating) Kumara Napier, Suprome Court (additions) Palmerston North (additions to strong-room) Eaetihi Te Puke Waipukurau Wairoa Buildings and sites not specified Supervision and advertising ... .... 1,300 400 500 60 150 700 500 500 700 200 100 Total required for current year—Vote No. 94 5,110 2,000 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 VOTE No. 95. Prisons— Addington (additions and alterations) Auckland (on account) Auckland (female), (land and buildings), (on account) Auckland (warders' cottages) Gisborne Gisborne (warder's cottage) Invercargill (on account) ... Invercargill (warders' cottages) Paparua (Templeton), (land and buildings), (on account) Waikeria (land, buildings, &c), (on account) Waikeria (road through Prison Eeserve) Wellington, Mount Cook (additional land) Wellington (Point Hals well), on account) Wellington (female), (land and buildings), (on account) Buildings and sites not specified, and supervision 500 | 3,000 I 250 500 250 100 4,200 450 10 11 12 13 14 8,000 4,500 500 1,200 2,500 15 250 250

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CLASS XVIIL—PUBLIC BUILDINGS -continued.

. tern. 1917-18. MINISTEE OF PUBLIC WORKS— continued. VOTE No. 95— continued. Prisons— continued. Reformatory Institutions — Auckland (iand and buildings), (on account) Christchurch (land and buildings), (on account) ... Wellington (land and buildings), (on account) £ £ 16 17 18 250 250 250 Total required for current year—Vote No. 95 27,200 ! 16,000 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 to 11 12 13 II la L6 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 10 41 42 43 44 4546 47 48 49 50 VOTE No. 96. Police-stations— Auckland, Freeman's Bay (site and building) Auckland, O'Eorke Street (additions) Auckland, Owen's Eoad. Epsom (site and building) Auckland, Ponsonby (site and building) Blenheim (sergeant's residence) Bull's Christchurch, Fendalton (site and building) Christchurch, Lower Eiccarton (site and building) Clyde Devonport (building) Dunedin (superintendent's residence), (site and building) Dunedin, Mornington (site and building) Dunedin, North-east Valley (site and building) ... Dunedin, Eoslyn (site and building) ... Dunedin, St. Clair (site and building) ... Dunedin, St. Kilda (site and building) Dunedin, Woodhaugh (site and building) Greytown Half-moon Bay (site and building) Hawera (offices, &c.) Hobsonville (site) Hokitika (office and quarters) Hokitika (sergeant's residence) Inglewood Invercargill, Gladstone Invercargill, North Kurow (office) Lawrence (sergeant's residence) Leeston Levin Lower Hutt Middlemarcb (site and building) Motu Napier, Port Ahuriri (additions) Oamaru Ohura Orepuki Piopio Port Chalmers (site and building) Portobello (site and building) Putaruru. Eeefton (sergeant's residence) Southbridge Stafford Te Araroa Temuka (lock-up and office) Tokonui Tuakau Upper Hutt Waikare 2,000 4,100 1,600 4,000 1,000 1,000 950 1,000 650 2,000 1,700 1,500 1,500 1,500 1,500 1,500 1,500 900 650 500 100 800 650 1,000 850 700 100 600 900 1,000 1,300 1,000 800 200 2,600 1,000 700 1,000 2,000 750 900 900 900 800 800 150 700 600 900 700

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CLASS XVIIL—PUBLIC BUILDINGS -continued.

Item. 1917-18. MINISTEE OF PUBLIC WORKS— continued. 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 VOTE No. 96— continued. Police-stations — continued. Waipukurau Wairoa Waitati Wanganui (office and quarters) Wellington (new training depot) Wellington, Brooklyn (purchase of property) Wellington, Eastbourne ... Wellington, Island Bay Wellington. Johnston Street Wellington, Karori Wellington, Kelburn (site and building) Wellington, Mount Cook (sergeant's residence) ... Wellington, Seatoun (site and building) Westport (lock-up) Buildings and sites not specified Supervision and advertising £ 230 1,300 750 2,500 4,000 1,450 850 1,000 13,000 1,000 900 700 1,000 120 500 100 £ Total required for current year—Vote No. 96 85,850 r»rr 25 25,000 3,000 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 VOTE No. 97. Postal and Telegraph— Alexandra , ••• Albury (site) Aria Auckland, Mount Albert Auckland, Mount Eden (telephone exchange) Auckland, Ponsonby (telephone exchange) Auckland, Bemuera (telephone exchange) Auckland, Wellesley Street (including accommodation for telephone exchange) Buckland (on account) Bull's (additional land) Christchurch, Chief Post-office (additions, &c, including provision for automatic telephone exchange) Christchurch, Ferry Eoad (additions) ... Christchurch, North Avon Eoad Christchurch, Papanui Christchurch, Sydenham (additions to provide for telephone exchange) Christchurch, Upper Eiccarton Dannevirke Devonport, Automatic Telephone Exchange (site) ... Dunedin, Anderson's Bay Dunedin, Chief Post-office (new building, including accommodation for automatic telephone exchange), (on account) Dunedin, Dunedin North (outbuildings, &c.) Dunedin, Garrison Hall (conversion into temporary post-office) Dunedin, Eoslyn (telephone exchange) ... Dunedin, St. Clair Dunedin, South Dunedin (telephone exchange) Dunedin, Telephone Exchange (additional accommodation), (on account) Eketahuna (additions) Frasertown Gisborne (additions) Glen Massey (on account) ... Hamilton (additions) Henderson Heretaunga 1,500 100 800 1,800 75 75 75 23,500 100 190 15,000 250 700 1,200 300 600 4,000 730 1,200 40,000 200 2] 22 23 24 25 26 220 1,800 j 850 ! 150 27 28 29 30 31 82 33 1,000 550 800 5,000 100 180 1,000 1,400

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item. 1917-18. MINISTEE OF PUBLIC WORKS— continued. £ £ 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 VOTE No. 97— continued. Postal and Telegraph— continued. Invercargill (raising tower, and additions) Kahukura (removal and re-erection of buildings) Kahukura (linesman's cottage, site and building), (on account) ... Kaitaia (additions) Khandallah Kh&ndallah (telephone exchange) Little River Lumsden (site) ... Manawaru (on account) Mangawai Man ure wa Milton (on account) Mokau Motu Napier (land and building), (on account) Napier (garage) Nelson, The Port Nightcaps (building) Oamaru (accommodation for automatic telephone exchange) Orepuki Ormondville Owhango Paekakariki Paengaroa Palmerston North (additions) Palmerston North (cottage for head messenger) Paraparaumu Patea Piopio Pirinoa (purchase of property) Port Chalmers (outbuildings, &c.) Pukehou Rakaia (residence) Ranfurly Eiversdale Euatorea (site and building)... Sockburn (site) ... Stoke Stratford Taitapu Taumarunui (additions, &c.) Taupiri Te Karaka Te Kuiti (additions, drainage, &e.) Te Puke (additions) Timaru (additions, &c., including new clock) Turakina Turua Uruti Waitoa Waitomo Caves (rebuilding after lire) ... Waituna West Waiuta Walton Wanganui (additions) Wanganui (automatic telephone exchange), (site and building), (on account) Wanganui East Wellington, General Post Office (additions) I Wellington, Hataitai 720 70 600 700 850 600 900 120 100 700 700 1,500 220 800 26,000 700 50 1,000 1,000 1,000 1,150 1,200" 800 400 1,600 600 800 3,500 700 650 200 700 1,000 1,250 1,100 70 75 750 4,000 700 200 1,000 900 300 300 6,500 800 1,450 150 850 850 120 800 800 220 90 91 92 3,000 800 3,450 750

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CLASS XVIII—PUBLIC BUILDINGS -continued.

Item. 1917-18. MINISTEE OF PUBLIC WORKS— continued. £ £ 93 94 95 ,96 97 98 99 100 101 102 103 104 105 VOTE No. 97 -continued. Postal and Telegraph— continued, Wellington, Island Bay (site and building) Wellington, Karori (on account) Wellington, Kelburn (telephone exchange) Wellington (parcel post building), (on account) Wellington South (additions for telephone exchange) Wellington (store, buildings, and yards)... Wellington (telephone exchange) Wellington, Te Aro (additions for Departmental offices) Wellington, Wadestown (on account) Whakatane (additions) Buildings and sites not specified Post-office fittings Supervision and advertising 1,000 250 1,000 5,000 100 3,850 6,000 1,500 200 180 500 1,000 500 209,340 Total required for current year—Vote No. 97 50,190 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 VOTE No. 98. Agricultural— Arataki (additional buildings) Ashburton (additional buildings) Clyde (residence) Motuihi Island (cottage) Otautau (residence), (purchase of property) Quail Island (water-supply)... Eanfurly (Stock Inspector's residence, office, &c.) ... Euakura (additional buildings, &c.) Euakura (field-drainage) Somes Island (bull-shed and yards) Tapanui (Stock Inspector's residence, office, <tec.) Tauranga (additional buildings) Te Kauwhata (buildings, water-supply, &c.) Weraroa (additional buildings, water-supply, yards, &e.) Westland (experimental farm), (land, on account of £6,000) Buildings and sites not specified 750 300 900 130 500 400 900 700 500 550 400 2,000 750 6,500 l(i 1,000 200 Total required for current year —Vote No. 98 16,480 7,000 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 VOTE No. 99. Mental Hospitals— Auckland Nelson Nelson (Simson's annuity) ... Porirua Seacliif Sunnyside Tokanui (land and buildings) Waitati Examination-rooms at general hospitals 1,000 8,000 200 8,000 15,000 13,000 14,000 4,800 3,000 45,000 Total required for current year—Vote No. 99 ... 67,000

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Item. 1 1917-18. MINISTEE OF PUBLIC HEALTH. £ £ 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 VOTE No. 100. Hospitals and Charitable Institutions— Auckland, St. Helens Christchurch, St. Helens (site and new building) Dunedin, St. Helens Gisborne, Townley St. Helens Invercargill, St. Helens Otaki Sanatorium Eotorua Infectious Diseases Hospital ... Waikato Sanatorium Wellington, St. Helens Westport Grants to Hospital Boards for accommodation for consumptives Other hospital expenditure ... 10,000 11,000 8,000 2,500 (i,000 8,000 750 10,000 350 100 12 I , 500 200 1 58,400 Total required for current year—Vote No. 100 ... 10,000 MINISTEE OF EDUCATION. VOTE No. 101. School Buildings, Additions to School Buildings, Fittings, Furniture, Apparatus, Lands, Sites, Fencing, and Expenditure incidental thereto, 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 ETC. — Public Schools ... Training-colleges Technical Schools Secondary Schools Universities Stratford High School site (on account)... Native Schools ... School for the Deaf, Sumner Special Schools for the Feeble-minded ... Industrial Schools Probation and Beceiving Homes Free Kindergartens 75,000 12,000 20,000 6,000 6,000 500 5,000 50 6,500 9,250 14,600 1,700 Total required for current year—Vote No. 101 ... 156,600 100,500 MINISTEE OF LABOUR. VOTE No. 102. Workers' Dwellings— Expenses incidental to— Acquisition of land Eoad-formation Erection, alteration, and enlargement... 1 2 3 1,000 1,000 18,000 Total—Vote No. 102 20,000 TOTAL CLASS XVIII .. £816,1 140

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CLASS XIX.—LIGHTHOUSES, HARBOUR WORKS, AND HARBOUR DEFENCES.

1917-18. £ 'ote No. 103 -Lighthouses 765 „ 104.—Harbour Works 5,000 5, ,, 105. —Harbour Defences 2,000 2, Total -Class XIX 7, 65 £ £ .tern. MINISTEE OF MAEINE. 1 2 VOTE No. 103. Lighthouses— Flat Bock (automatic light) Stephens Island (erection of fog-signal) 765 160 Total required for current year—Vote No. 103 ... 925 765 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 VOTE No. 104. Harbour Works— Parengarenga (wharf), (subsidy, £1 for £2) Eussell, Paihia (wharf) Hokianga, Kohukohu (reclamation and retaining-wall) Hokianga, Eawene (launch-landing) Hokianga, Eawene (dolphin off wharf), (subsidy, £lfor£l) ' ... Hokianga (light on rock in Narrows) Hokianga, Taheke Eiver (improving navigation) Tutukaka (wharf) Mahurangi Heads (wharf) ... Matakana Eiver (improving navigation)... Kaipara, Tangowahine Wharf (subsidy, £1 for £1) ... Kaipara, Kawau Point (wharf) Kaipara, Sail Point (beacon)... Kaipara, Tikinui Slip (subsidy, £1 for £1) Kaipara, Mapau (wharf) Kawakawa Bay, wharf (Franklin County), (subsidy, £1 for £1) Otaeo Stream, Waiwawa (wharf and river improvement) Wade Eiver (wharf and shed), (subsidy, £2 for £1) Wade Eiver, Silvordalo (wharf and shed) Great Barrier Island, Port Fitzroy (wharf) Waipa Eiver (improvement), (subsidy, £1 for £1) Piako Eiver, Maukoro Landing (landing stage and shed) Kennedy Bay (wharf), (on account) Port Charles (wharf), (subsidy, £2 for £1) ■ New Brighton, Miranda district (wharf)... Tauranga, Kutarere (wharf and embankment), (subsidy, £1 for £1) ... ... ... Tauranga, Katikati Domain (wharf), (subsidy, £1 for £1) 200 300 100 600 88 2 121 275 350 200 175 500 30 50 650 150 17 50 100 100 100 50 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 360 200 200 500 (500 27 100

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tem. 1917-18. MINISTEE OF MARINE— continued. VOTE No. 104— continued. Harbour Works— continued. Port Waikato (wharf), (additions, &c.) ... Waikato, Whangamarino Stream (wharf at Kopuku Landing), (subsidy, £1 for £1) Waikato, Whangamarino Falls (erection of wharf) ... Waikato (clearing willows out of Te Onetea Stream), (subsidy, £1 for £1) Waikato (clearing snags out of Waikato Eiver) Waikato (removal of sand bar and improving Waikato Stream between Awaroa landing and Waikato Eiver) ... ... ... ' Waikato, Opuatia Creek (clearing willows), (subsidy, £lfor£l) Baglan, wharf at Pungapunga (subsidy, £1 for £1) ... Eaglan, protective works near launch wharf (subsidy, £lfor£l) Eaglan (wharf and breastwork), (on account of £3,000), (subsidy, £1 for £1) Eaglan, Te Akau (wharf), (subsidy, £1 for £1) Kawhia (wharf), (subsidy, £l for £1) Waihou Eiver (grant towards cost of Kaimanawa Wharf) Turanga Creek (wharf) Awakino Eiver (improving entrance) Mokau Eiver (grant for improvement) ... Waikawau (boat landing), (subsidy, £l for £1) Foxton Harbour (deepening river) Cape Turnagain (wharf), (subsidy, £1 for £1) Akitio (harbour improvement), (on account of £15,000) Takaka Harbour (improvements), (on account of £2,036) Collingwood (wharf),J(on account of £1,400), (subsidy, £lfor£l) Karamea Eiver (improvements) Hokitika (sea protective works), (subsidy, £1 for £1) Bruce Bay (landing and road) Waikouaiti Eiver (improvement) Taieri Mouth (jetty at Kuri Bush) Lake Waihola and Taieri Eiver (improving channel between) Foveaux Strait (boat-landing near Pohia) Works not specified £ £ 28 29 50 30 31 75 50 32 33 100 69 96 34 150 100 35 36 37 60 38 39 40 1,000 500 1,000 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 250 750 94 750 75 400 150 1,000 49 536 50 51 52 53 54 55 1,900 500 500 1,000 100 180 56 57 300 100 200 Total required for current year—Vote No. 104 ... 18,186 fr nr\r\ 5.000 5,000 MINISTEE OF PUBLIC WOEKS. VOTE No. 105. Harbour Defences— Harbour Defences ... ... ... 2,000 2,000 Total—Vote No. 105... TOTAL CLASS XIX £7,76

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CLASS XX.—TOURIST AND HEALTH RESORTS. (INCLUDING SITES, FURNITURE, FITTINGS, ETC.)

1917-18. Vote No. 106—Tourist and Health Eesorts £ 5,200 tern. MINISTEE OF TOURIST AND HEALTH EESOETS. £ £ 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 VOTE No. 106. Tourist and Health Eesorts— Grave-Talbot Track (Milford Sound): Huts, tracks, &c. Hanmer Springs: Purchase of cottage for bathattendant, improvements, <tc. Maruia Hot Springs : Improvements Morere Hot Springs : Improvements, fencing, &c. ... Mount Arthur Hut (subsidy, £1 for £1) ... Mount Cook and Franz Josef Glaciers : Huts, tracks, bridges, &c. Mount Cook Hermitage : New hostel (additions to), furniture, &c. Mount Cook Hermitage Hostel : Fencing, outbuildings, cottage for guide, &c Mount Cook : Memorial hut to late Messrs. King, Thomson, and Richmond, killed by avalanche Mount Hector : Huts Puketitiri Springs : Bath-house, &c. Eotorua : Clearing entrance to Ohau Channel, &e. ... Eotorua : Drainage-works and water-supply Eotorua: Electrical works and telephone-line Eotorua: Improvements to reserves Eotorua: Purchase of oil-launch, engine, etc. Te Anau : Jetties, slip, oil-launch, &c. ... Te Aroha : Improvements, &c. Tonga: iro National Park: Huts, tracks, improvements, &c, Waimangu: Caretaker's cottage and tea-kiosk Waimangu Hostel and round-trip : Fencing, improvements, &c. Waitomo Hostel, Caves, and Eeserves : Fencing, tracks, furniture, improvements, &c. ... Works and subsidies not specified ... ... War bonus to temporary tradesmen and others ... 50 400 200 300 50 350 1,500 1,000 50 100 200 350 500 750 50 200 50 100 20 21 100 500 22 100 23 24 250 50 200 Total required for current year—Vote No. 106 ... 7,400 5,200 TOTAL CLASS XX £5 100

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i 1917-18. i i ote No. 107.—Department of Immigration I £ 7,500 I tern. ieni. £ £ MINISTEE OF IMMIGRATION. VOTE No. 107. j Department op Immigration— 1 Salaries— Clerical Division. Class III— 1 at £425 Class VI— 1 at £260 Class VII— £ 1 at £220 ... ... 220 1 at £200 ... ... 200 Glass VIII— 1 at £110 425 260 420 110 General Division. 1 at £200 200 1,415 Other Charges— 2 Administration and general expenses (England and New Zealand) 3 Passage-money in payment of reduced fares for nominated immigrants 4 Passage-money in payment of reduced fares for immigrants, other than nominated immigrants, themselves applying for reduced-rate passages to New Zealand to the High Commissioner in London 5 I Passages and other expenses for immigrants returned as undesirable, and contingencies ...' 6 : Refunds of passage-money ... ... ... 7 War bonus 2 3 4 6,000 27,000 ■ 15,500 100 2,000 40 50,640 52,055 Less estimated credits under section 48 of the Public Revenues Act, 1910 44,555 Total—Vote No. 107 ... 1 7,500 7,50C TOTAL CLASS XXI £7,500

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CLASS XXII.-CONSTRUCTION, MAINTENANCE, AND SUPERVISION OF ROADS, BRIDGES, AND OTHER PUBLIC WORKS.

1917-18. £ Vote No. 108.—Roads, &o. ... ... ... 358,505 109.—Back-blocks Eoads, Ac. ... ... 72,380 ,, 110.—Roads and other Works on Goldiields and 20,200 Mineral Lands Total—Class XXII ... ... 451,085 Item. £ £ £ Item. MINISTER OF PUBLIC WORKS. VOTE No. 108. Eoads, etc. — Whangarei Boad District — 1 Ahipara to Herekino (£64, £1 for £1) Mangonui ' 143 2 Awanui to Mangonui, via Peria (£1 ,, 200 for £1) 3 | Cable Station Bridge (£1 for £1) ... ,, 75 4 ! Duncan Eoad (access to Section 3, ,, 300 Block XIII, Eangaunu S.D.) 5 ! Fairburn Eoad (£1 for £1) ... ,, 60 6 , Great North Boad to Otukai (£1 for £1) ,, 75 7 Kaitaia to Ahipara (£1 for £1) ... ,, 105 8 , Kaitaia to Mangatete ... ... „ 150 9 Kereponia (£1 for fl) ... ... ,, 100 10 j Main Eoad (Lambly's Hill), (£1 for £1) ,, 50 11 ' Mangatete Quarry Eoad... ... ,, 100 12 Mangonui Beach Eoad (£1 for £1) ... ,, 66 13 Paranui (£1 for £1) ... ... ,, 75 14 Peria Eiver bridges ... ... „ 968 15 Eaetea Eoad (£1 for £1) ... ... ,, 50 16 Stony Creek to Mangonui (£1 for £1) ,, 50 17 Takahue Village to Victoria Vallev ,, 74 I Eoad (£1 for £D 18 Unahi ... ... ,, 50 19 Waipapakauri to Waiharera ... ,, 50 20 Herekino Settlement Eoad (£1 for £1) Mangonui and '< 135 Hokianga 21 Auckland Borough Endowment ... Hokianga 63 22 Awaroa Landing Eoad ... ... ,, 50 23 Blundell Eoad ... ... ,, 54 24 Broadwood to Herekino (£434, on ,, 486 account of £802, £1 for £1) 25 Broadwood to Karae Landing (£1 for £1) ,, 79 26 Broadwood to Motukaraka ... ,, 195 27 Broadwood to Eunaruna (£139, £1 for £1) ,, 181 28 Broadwood to Takahue Saddle ... ,, 100 29 Field Boad ... ... „ 100 30 Haha ... ... „ 113 31 Herekino Post-office to Factory (£1 „ 200 for £1) 32 ' Herekino to Whangape ... ... ,, 75 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 g 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 80 31 32

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:tem. 1917-18. MINISTEE OF PUBLIC WORKS— continued. VOTE No. 108— continued, Roads, etc. — continued. Whangarei Boad, District —continued. Hokianga S.D., Block VI, Sections 15 Hokianga and 16 (access to) Horeke to Bangiahua ... ... ,, Horse-shoe Creek Bridge Waimamaku- ,, Taheke Eoad Huehue ... ... ,, Huehue Block to Punakitere Settle- ,, ment (£1 for £1) Huehue Bridge ... ... ,, Huehue to Eaparapahoe... .... ,, Ivydale to Motukiore ... ... ,, Iwitaua to Mangamuka •■• ... ,, Kahikatoa Kohukohu to Mangamuka Ferry (£1 ,, for £1) Kohukohu Township roads (£1 for £2) ,, Kohukohu to Te Karae ... ... ,, Kohukohu to Motukaraka ... ,, Kohukohu to Broadwood ... ,, Kohukohu to Narrows ... ... ,, Mamari Village to Pukemiro (£1 for £1) ,, Mangakahia Eiver Bridge (on account) ,, Mangakino Bridge ... ... ,, Mata Eoad to Mangamuka Eiver ... ,, Marriner Eoad (Eawene) ... „ Mataitawa to Bangiahua (£1 for £1) ,, Motukaraka Creamery to Narrows ... ,, Motukaraka Factory to Buna Junction ,, (£1 for £1) Mangatu to Katui ... ... ,, McCullough and Hood Eoad ... ,, McLean Eoad ... ... ,, Okaharau ... ... ,, Okaihau to Horeke (£1 for £1) Omanaia to Hokianga Heads (£50, £1 ,, for £1), (£125, £2 for £1) Onetoki-Eunaruna-Te Karae (on ac- ,, count of £5,000), (£1 for £1) Opanake to Hokianga ... ... ,, Opouteke to Tarawhati ... ... ,, Pakanae to Opononi ... ... ,, Pareokawa Block Eoad ... ... ,, Bangiahua to Umawhero ... ,, Botokakahi Eiver Bridge ... ,, School Eoad ... ... ,, Taheke to Eawene ... ... ,, Taita ... ... ,, Taita Bridge Te Karae to Mangamuka ... ,, Umawera to Mangamuka ... ,, Waihou Eiver protection ... ,, Waimamaku to Pakanae ... ,, Waimamaku Settlement roads (£1.00, ,, £1 for £1) Waimatanui ... ... ,, Waiotemarama ... ... ,, Waiotewliata ... ... ,, Waoku S.D., Block VI, Sections 15, 16, and 21 Whakarapa to Botokakahi ... ,, Whangape to West Coast ... ,, Whirinaki to One ,,. ... ,, £ 56 33 34 35 50 150 36 37 108 100 38 39 40 11 42 43 150 62 50 200 100 123 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 100 300 200 100 100 50 500 100 50 50 64 75 100 57 58 59 60 61 62 150 50 75 100 117 352 63 1,000 64 65 66 67 08 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 375 112 100 2,700 200 800 50 136 206 300 400 175 200 100 200 79 80 81 82 281 100 150 150 83 84 85 258 100 200

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item. 1917 18. MINISTEE OF PUBLIC WORKS— continued. £ £ 86 87 KH 89 90 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 100 101 102 103 104 105 106 107 108 109 110 111 112 113 114 115 VOTE No. 108—continued. Uoads, etc. — continued. Whangarei Boad District —continued. Waiote to Kumerau ... ... Hokianga Waima to Opouteke (£1 for £1) ... ,, Whakarapa to Karaka ... ... ,, Arapohue to Hoanga (£1 for £1) .. Hobson Arapohue to Manganui Bridge (Lower), ,, (£1 for £1) Arapohue Settlement Boad, via Edu- ,, cation Eeserve (£1 for £1) Aratapu Domain to Pound ... ,, Awakino Valley ... ... ,, Dargaville to Kaikohe (Opouteke to ,, Tangowahine Valley) Dargaville to Whangarei County Bound- ,, ary (£1 for £1) Girls' High School Endowment Eoad ,, Hoyle Eoad (£1 for £1) ... Hoyle Eoad to Lusk Eoad, via The ,, Neck Kaikohe to Dargaville ... ... ,, Karaka to Opouteke ... ... ,, Kirikopuni to Houto (£1 for £1) ... ,, Maropiu to Kairara (£1 for £1) ... ,, Mititai Creamery Eoad (£1 for £1) ... ,, Mititai to Tokatoka (£1 for £1) Omana to Tangiteroria ... ... ,, Opanaki to Mangonui Bluff (£1 for £1) ,, Opouteke to White's ... ... ,, Paerata ... ... ,, Pekapekarau State Forest Eeserve ,, Eoad (£1 for £1) Tangowahine Creek Bridge ... ,, Tangowahine Valley ... ... „ Wordsworth's to Creamery (£1 for £1) ,, Foster Bridge ... ... Whangaroa Kaeo to Matauri ... ... ,, Kaeo to Whangaroa (on account of „ £1,500, £1 for£l) Oika Eoad ... ... ,, Pupuke to Omaunu ... ... ,, Totara Coast Eoad ... ... ,, Kaeo to Purerua ... ... Bay of Islands Kaikohe to Kawakawa, via Ngapipito ,, (£1 to £1) Kaiapipi Bridge ... ... ,, Kawakawa to Ohaeawai (£1 for £1) ... ,, Kerikeri to Waipapa ... ... ,, Ngaruawahine ... ... ,, Ohaeawai to Tunipo ... ... ,, Ohaeawai to Kaikohe (£1 for £1) ... ,, Ohaeawai to Okaihau (£1 for £1) ... ,, Okaihau No. 2 Block Eoad ... ,, Okaihau to Horeke (£1 for £1) Okaihau to Kerikeri ... ... ,, Opua to Paihia .. ... ,, Otiria Eailway-station Eoad (£1 for £1) „ Paihia Wharf Eoad Pakaraka to Whangae ... ... ,, Pakarau to Owae ... ... ,, Eamarama (Lower) ... ... ,, Bangitane ... ... ,, Bangitane Bridge (on account of £500) Eussell to Waikare ... ... ,, Taumarere to Opua ... ... ,, 100 150 44 73 200 75 50 100 200 98 100 256 50 150 58 100 50 100 127 100 50 150 50 100 500 106 100 100 50 500 45 55 62 50 50 50 56 50 100 100 115 100 50 218 151 100 100 50 50 50 50 50 100 100 100 116 117 118 119 120 121 122 123 124 125 126 127 128 129 130 181 132 133 134 135 136 137 138 139 140

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tern. 191718. MINISTER OF PUBLIC WORKS—continued. - VOTE No. 108—continued. Roads, etc. ---continued. Whangarei, Boad District, —continued. Towai to Ruapekapeka (£1 for £1) ... Bay of Islands Waihou to Puketi ... ,, Waikare to Kawakawa ... ... ,, Waingaro Bridge ... ... ,, Waitangi Bridge to Bull's Road ... ,, Aponga to Titoki ... ... Whangarei Bull's Eoad (Waikiekie)... ... ,, Carter Eoad ... ... .. ,, Carter School Eoad ... ... ,, Cork Eoad ... ... ,, Coward's Bridge (£1 for £1) ... ,, Dempster's Bridge (£1 for £1) ... ,, Foster's Eoad ... ... ,, Grahamtown Bail way Station to Taumatarau Hikurangi Bridge (£1 for £1) ... ,, Jordan to Hikurangi (£1 for £1) ... ,, Jordan to Otakairangi (£1 for £1) ... ,, Kamo to Hikurangi (£1 for £1) ... ,, Kamo to Buatangata (£1 for £1) ... ,, Karukaru Boad (£1 for £1) Kiripaka to Ngunguru, via Kaitaia ,, (£1 for £1) Lang's Bridge ... ... ,, Leccas to Kaitara ... ... ,, Matapouri ... ... ,, Matapouri to Whananaki (£1 for £1) ,, Mangakahia Bridge to Houto (on ., account of £900, £1 for £1) Mangakahia Bridge to Mangakahia Church ,, Mangapai to Mangonui Bridge (Upper), ,, (£1 for £1) Mangapai to Waikiekie (on account of £872) Maungakaramea to Tauraroa Eailway- ,, station (on account of £650) ... ,, Maungakaramea to Tauraroa Eailway- ,, station (£1 for £1) Maungakaramea to Hay ward's ... ,, Maungatapere to Tangiteroria (£200, ,, on account of £1,000, £1 for £1) Mimiha Stream Bridge ... ... ,, McEwen Flat to Pakotai (£1 for £1) McKay's Bridge McLaughlin's to Caves ... Neville Eoad (£lfor£l)... North Eiver Eoad (£1 for £1) Opuawhanga to ITelena Bay ... ,, Opuawhanga to Whananaki (£1 for £1) Otakairangi to Eiponui ... ... ,, Otangaroi Road (£1 for £1) ... ,, Otouga to Opuawhanga (£1 for £1) ... ,, Paiaka to Hukerenui ... ... ,, Poroti to Mangakahia Bridge (£400, £1 for £1) Eamarama to Purua (£1 for £1) ... ,, Euakaka to Otaika (£1 for £1) Buatangata to Otakairangi ■ ... ,, Buatangata to Maungatapere ... ,, Section 198, Block II, Waipu S.D. (access) ,, Tangiahua Forest Eeserve to Tokatoka ,, Main Eoad Waiotu Eailwav-station to Jordan (£1 ,, for £1) £ £ 141 142 143 144 145 146 147 148 149 150 151 152 153 154 50 50 75 75 100 100 100 56 150 50 100 50 75 75 155 156 157 158 159 160 161 250 350 75 150 150 50 100 162 163 164 165 166 200 45 150 50 250 167 168 625 148 169 170 645 350 171 1.50 172 173 100 825 174 175 176 177 178 179 180 181 182 183 184 185 186 100 250 200 331 50 50 100 100 88 100 100 100 (S00 187 188 189 190 191 192 100 60 300 100 140 100 193 50

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item. 1917-18. MINISTER OF PUBLIC WORKS— continued. VOTE No. 108— continued. Roads, etc. — continued. Whangarei Boad District, —continued. Wairua Bridge ... ... Whangarei Waikiekie to Mareretu ... ... ,, Waikiekie Post - office to Tokatoka ,, Main Road (£1 for £1) Waiparera to Horahora ... ... ,, Waiparera to Taheke ... ... ,, * Waipu Caves to Mangapai ... ,, Waipu Coast Road ... ... ,, Waipu Cove (£100, £1 for £1) Waipu Gorge Road (£1 for £l) ... ,, Waipu North Road District roads (£1 ,, for £1) Waipu to Ruakaka (£1 for £1) ... ,, Wairua Bridge to Kaitara ... ,, Wairua Bridge to Otakairangi ... ,, Western's to Waiotu Station (£1 for £1) „ Whakapara Bridge (£1 for £l) ... ,, Whakapara to Hukerenui (£1 for £1) ,, Whananaki to Mimiwhatanga . ,, Whangarei to Kiripaka (£1 for £1) ... ,, Whangarei Heads (deviation) ... ,, Survey, acquisition, and legalization of roads, drains, gravel-pits, protective works, tram ways, horse-paddocks, &c. Supervision Miscellaneous works and services, including assistance towards the construction of roads, bridges, tracks, &e. £ 194 195 196 102 53 100 197 198 199 200 201 202 203 100 100 140 98 134 50 42 204 205 206 207 208 209 2i0 211 212 213 50 50 50 50 400 300 100 71 144 250 214 215 50 500 Total —Whangarei 34,258 216 217 218 219 220 221 222 223 224 225 226 Auckland Boad District — Ahuroa Railway-station to Komokoriki Rodney Barker Bridge (£1 for £1) Big Omaha to Pakiri, via Leigh (£1 ,, for £1) Deviation Bridge (£1 for £1) Hoteo Eiver Bridge (Wayby), (£1 for £1) Hoteo Eiver Bridge (Mangakura), (£1 ,, for £1) Kaipara Hill Eoad (£1 for £1) Mahurangi Eiver Bridge (Bone Mill) ,, Matakana to Omaha (on account of ,, £700, £1 for £1) Matakana to Warkworth (£1 for £1)... ,, Matakana to Whangaripo (on account ,, of £600, £1 for £1) Omaumau Eiver Bridge (£1 for £1) ,, Onehunga Bridge (£1 for £1) ... ,, Pakiri to Whangaripo (£1 for £1) ... ,, Pakiri Eiver Eoad ... ... ,, Pohuehue Bridge (£1 for £1) ... ,, Puhoi Eiver Bridge (£1 for £1) Puhoi to Puhoi Eiver Bridge (£1 for £1) ,, Port Albert to Wellsford Junction (£1 ,, for £1) Port Albert to Wellsford Station (£1 for £1) Port Albert to Wellsford Valley ... ,, Port Albert Wharf to Butter-factory ,, (£1 for £1) Sandspit Wharf Eoad ... ... ,, 250 150 50 200 150 300 200 500 250 100 200 227 228 229 230 231 232 233 234 300 250 50 200 100 500 100 300 235 100 236 237 100 50 238 150 * £50 provided by ltuarangi Road Board.

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Item. 1917 ■18. MINISTEE OF PUBLIC WORKS— continued. 239 240 241 242 243 244 245 246 247 248 249 250 251 252 253 254 255 256 257 258 259 260 261 262 263 264 265 VOTE No. 108— continued. Roads, etc. — continued. Auckland Boad District —continued. Te Hana River Bridge (£1 for £1) ... Eodney Tauhoa Block to Ahuroa Eailway- ,, station Tauhoa to Wellsford ... ... ,, Warkworth to Ahuroa (£1 for £1) ... ,, Warkworth to Kaipara Flat Eailway- ,, station (£500, on account of £2,000, £1 for £1) Warkworth to Mahurangi Heads ... ,, Warkworth to Sandspit Eoad (£200, £1 for £1) Warkworth to Way by (£1 for £1) ... Warkworth to Woodcock's Eailway- ,, station (on account of £250) Whangaripo Eange Eoad ... ,, Whangaripo Stream Bridge (£1 for £1) ,, Whanaki Eiver Bridge (£1 for £1) ... Ararua (£1 for £1) ... ... Otamatea Ararua Eoad to Creamery ... ,, Awaroa Eiver Canal to Matakohe- ,, Tokatoka Eoad (£1 for £1) Batley to Linton's ... ... ,, Bickerstaffe to Paparoa-Maungaturoto ,, Boad (£1 for £1) Burch's to McCarroll's Gap, via Ararua ,, and Lindquist Eoad Craven Eoad (£125, £1 for £1) Creamery-Awaroa Eoad (£1 for £1)... ,, Grico's Bridge (£1 for £1) Hewlett's Bridge ... ... ,, Kaiwaka to Mangawai (£1 for £1) ... ,, Mareretu to Bull's ... ... ,, Mareretu Central Eoad ... ... ,, Mareretu to Waikiekie ... ... ,, Maungaturoto Settlement to Eailway- ,, station Maungaturoto to Waikiekie (£1 for £1) ,, Maungaturoto to Waipu Gorge (£1 for £1) ,, Mapau to Awaroa (£1 for £1) ... ,, Matakohe Church to Wharf Matakohe to Paparoa to Maungatu- „ roto (£1 for £1) Matakohe Eiding roads ... ... ,, Matakohe to Tokatoka (Matakohe end), ,, (£200, £1 for £1) Matakohe to Tokatoka (Tokatoka end), ,, (£1 for £1) Maungaturoto Wharf Eoad to Bicker- ,, staffe (£1 for £1) Metcalfe Eoad ... ... ,, Mitchell Eoad (£1 for £1) Naumai to Euawai (£1 for £1) ... ,, Opekapeka to Topuni Bailway-station ,, Otamatea Eoad (£1 for £1) Paparoa to Waikiekie (£1 for £1) ... ,, Paparoa Settlement Eoad ... ,, Paparoa to Pahi ... ... ,, Poyner's Outlet Eoad ... ... ,, Eaupo Eiver Eoad (£1 for £1) Eobertson Eoad (£1 for £1) ... ,, Euawai to Eobertson's (£1 for £1) ... ,, Simpson Eoad (£1 for £1) Tokatoka to Mangonui Bridge (Upper) ,, Tokatoka to Mangapai (£1 for £1) ... ,, Tokatoka Eiver Eoad ... ... ,, £ 500 50 150 75 750 200 208 150 100 100 250 500 175 100 350 100 100 850 275 100 250 200 56 61 66 350 1,266 £ 266 267 268 269 270 225 454 78 100 100 271 272 200 250 273 902 274 100 275 276 277 278 279 280 281 282 283 284 285 283 287 288 289 290 75 100 250 100 150 200 300 50 100 100 275 50 275 250 120 150

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item. 1917 18. MINISTEE OF PUBLIC WORKS— continued. £ £ 291 292 293 294 295 296 297 298 299 300 301 302 303 304 305 306 307 308 309 310 311 312 313 314 315 316 317 318 319 VOTE No. 108—continued. Roads, etc. — continued. Auckland Boad District —continued. Tokatoka Swamp (main access road), Otamatea (£1 for £1) Torr Bridge (£2 for £1) ... Waipu to Mareretu ... ... ,, Wairere to Mareretu (£1 for £1) ... ,, Wallace Eoad ... ... ,, Whakapirau to Bailway-station (£1 for ,, £1) Wilson Bridge ... ... ,, Annett Eoad ... ... Waitemata Albany to Brown's Bay ... ... ,, Albany to Dairy Flat (on account of ,, £793, £1 for £1) Albany to Paremoremo Wharf ... ,, Albany Main Coach Eoad (Paremo- ,, remo Parish), (£1 for £1) Awaroa Creek Bridge (£1 for £1) ... ,, Awaroa Eoad (£1 for £1) ... ,, Bodie's Avenue ... ... ,, Brunton's Bridge ... ... ,, Brooklyn Bridge ... ... ,, Brooklyn Bridge (on account of £395, ,, refund to County Council) Churchhouse Eoad ... ... ,, Cabel Bridge (£1 for £1) Carter Boad (£1 for £1) . . Deep Creek Bridge (£1 for £1) ... ,, Forest Hill Eoad (£1 for £1) Glenfield Settlement to Freem's Landing ,, Glenfield to Takapuna ... ... ,, Great North Eoad deviation (£1 for £1) ,, Greenhithe Wharf Eoad (£1 for £1)... Greenhithe to Cut Hill ... ... „ Helensville to Port Albert (£100, £1 for £1) Hobsonville to Brigham's Creek (£1 ,, for £1) Hobsonville to Great North Eoad (£1 ,, for £1) Henderson to West Coast (£1 for £1) ,, Hetana Hamlet roads (£1 for £1) ... ,, Inland Eoad (Euatawhiri) ... ,, Kaipatiki Wharf (approach road) ... ,, Kumeu Eiver Bridge (Taupaki), (£1 for £1) ,, Lincoln Bridge Landing (approach to), ,, (£1 for £1) Makarau Bailway-station to Kauka- ,, pakapa Massey Eoad ... ... ,, Matthew Eoad ... ... ,, Mount Victoria Eoad, Devonport ... ,, Ohirangi Bridge (£1 for £1) ... ,, Ohirangi to Helensville ... ... ,, Okura Bridge (£1 for £1) Orewa to Waiwera Springs ... ,, Oteha Block Main Eoad (£1 for £1) Oteha Stream Bridge No. 2 (£1 for £1) Paramatta Eoad (£1 for £1) ... ,, Paremoremo Block to Paremoremo ,, Wharf (£2 for £1) Parker Eoad ... ... ,, Plumer Hamlet to Henderson Eailway- ,, station (£1 for £1) 300 200 198 50 150 235 50 50 100 175 200 505 100 100 50 200 900 200 100 300 100 100 200 100 100 250 50 100 200 320 50 321 50 322 323 324 325 326 327 75 550 50 100 500 100 328 100 329 330 331 332 333 334 335 336 337 338 339 90 50 100 500 100 100 150 250 250 100 500 340 341 100 50

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item. 1917-18. MINISTER OF PUBLIC WORKS— continued. £ 342 343 344 345 346 347 348 349 350 351 352 353 354 355 356 357 358 359 360 361 362 363 364 365 366 VOTE No. 108— continued. Roads, etc. — continued. Auckland Boad District —continued. Eiverhead Bridge approach ... Waitemata South Head Eoad and deviation (£1 ,, for £1) Silver Creek Culvert (£1 for £1) Swanson to Waitakerei (£1 for £1) ... ,, Shaw Eoad (£1 for £1) ... ... ,, Stoney Creek Bridge (£1 for £1) ... ,, Swanson Tram Valley (£lfor£l) ... ,, Swanson to West Coast (£25, £1 for £1) ,, Tahekeroa Creek Bridge to Tahekeroa „ Tunnel Taikata Creek Bridge approaches (£1 ,, for £1) Titirangi to Green Bay (£1 for £1) ... ,, Titirangi to Manukau Harbour ... ,, Upper Waiwera to Waiwera Wharf... ,, Wharepapa to Ohirangi (£1 for £1) ,, Wade to Dairy Flat (£250, on account ,, of £1,015, £1 for £1) Wade to Dairy Flat (Bowden's Deviation) ,, Wade to Kahikatea Flat... ... ,, Waari Hamlet roads ... ... ,, Wade to Orewa (£75, £1 for £1) Wade to Eedvale (£1 for £1) Wade Wharf Approach (£1 for £1) ... ,, Wainui to Cooper's Flat... ... ,, Wainui to Kaukapakapa Eailway- „ station (£100, £1 for £1) Waiatarua to Eua-o-te-Whenua ... ,, Waikumete to West Coast (£100, £1 for £1) Wairere (£1 for £1) Waitakerei to West Coast (£1 for £1) ,, Whangaparoa ... ... ,, Artillery Eoad ... ... Eden Gladstone (£1 for £2) ... Orakei to Cattle Landing (£1 for £1)... ,, Pilkington Eoad ... ... ,, Point Chevalier Beach Approach and ,, Esplanade Taylor Eoad (£1 for £1)... Akaaka Swamp Eoad to Pukekohe Franklin Eailway-station Akaaka to Waiuku ... ... ,, Beloe Eoad ... ... ,, Bombay to Paparata (£1 for £1) ... ,, Bombay to Pukekohe ... ... ,, Brown Eoad (Tuakau), (£1 for £1) ... ,, Cain's Corner to section 27, Puni Parish ,, Clark Eoad (Waiau) ... ... ,, Creamery Eoad (£1 for £1) ... ,, Drury to Waiuku (Brown's Hill ,, deviation) Drury to Waiuku, Via Karaka ... ,, Goodwin Eoad (£1 for £1) ... ,, Golding Hill (£1 for £1) ... Great South Eoad (Drury to Mercer), ,, (£1 for £1) Happy Valley to Hunua ... ... ,, Hingaia Greek Bridge (McPherson's), (£1 for £1) Hunua to Railway-station (£1 for £1) ,, 50 150 100 300 50 100 100 225 164 50 100 100 100 100 450 50 75 100 125 100 50 300 104 100 700 367 368 369 370 371 372 373 374 200 100 200 100 75 100 100 200 375 376 250 500 377 378 379 380 381 382 383 384 385 100 100 150 100 400 125 100 125 150 386 387 388 389 250 150 75 630 390 391 100 500 392 700

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Item. 1917-18. MINISTER OF PUBLIC WORKS —continued. £ £ VOTE No. 108—continued. Roads, etc. —continued. Auckland Road District —continued. 393 ! Hunua Riding roads (on account of Franklin 100 £1,469, £1 for £1) 394 Hunua (£1 for £1) ... ... ,, 56 395 1 Jamieson Road (Buckland), (£1 for £1) ,, 50 396 Karaka to Waiau ... ... ,, 150 397 Kitchener Road Bridge ... ... ,, 600 398 Koheroa ... ,, 120 399 Mangatangi to Miranda ... ,, 364 400 Mangatangi to Kaiawa (£100, £1 for £1) ,, 200 401 Martin Road ... ... ,, 100 402 Maramarua to Maungatawhiri Valley ,, 100 (Enoch's Deviation) 403 Maungatawhiri Scream to Maunga- ,, 183 tangi Stream (£1 for £1) 404 Opaheke Main Road (£1 for £1) ... „ 101 405 Otaua to Akaaka (£1 for £1) ... ,, j 75 406 Otaua to Maioro (£50, £1 for £1) ... ,, 84 407 Otaua Swamp Road to Port Waikato ,, 150 408 Otau Parish (Sections 6 and 94) Block ,, 100 XIV, Orere 409 Pakington to Mauku ... ... ,, 100 410 Patumahoe to Railway-station ... ,, 200 411 Patumahoe to Waiau (straight road)... ,, 87 412 Pollok Post-office to Awhitu Central ,, 150 413 Pratt Hill deviation (£1 for £1) ... ,, 500 414 Pukekohe East to Rarnarama, via Kearn's ,, 150 415 Quin Road (£1 for £1) ... ,, 50 416 Reed's to Mangatangi Bridge ... ,, 150 417 Symond Stream Bridge (Cossy's), ,, 50 (£1 for £1) 418 Taurangaruru Top Road... ... ,, 50 419 Taurangaruru to Waipipi Main Road „ 875 (£1 for £2) 420 Tramway Road (Puni), (£1 for £1) ... ,, 125 421 Tuakau Township to Tuakau Bridge ,, 61 (£50, £1 for £1) 422 Tuakau Railway-station to Whanga- ,, 200 rata-Pokeno Road (£1 for £2) 423 Waihoehoe Stream Bridge (Sutton's) ,, 50 424 Waipipi Creamery to Waiuku-Awhitu ,, 50 Road (£1 for £1) 425 Wairoa Falls Road ... ... ,, 100 426 Waiuku to Drury (£1 for £1) ... „ 150 427 Waiuku to Kariotahi (£1 for £1) ... ,, 200 428 Waiuku to Pollok (Lee Gully to Pollok) ,, 500 429 Waiuku-Pollok Road to TeToro Wharf ,, 100 430 Whangapouri Creek Bridge (£1 for £1) ,, 150 431 Whiriwhiri Road (£1 for £1) ... ,, 100 432 Whangarata to Waikato River (£1 for ,, 75 £1) 433 Alfriston to Ardmore (£1 for £1) ... Manukau 80 434 Alfriston to Papakura (£1 for £1) ... ,, 150 435 Alfriston to Wairoa Road (£1 for £1) „ 52 436 Botany Road ... ... „ 50 437 Campbell Stream Bridge (£1 for £1)... ,, 150 438 i Cemetery Bridge (Whitford Road) ... ,, 100 439 Clevedon to Brookby (£1 for £1) ... ,, 100 440 | Clifton Wharf approach... ... ,, 50 441 : Cow Bridge .. ... ... ,, 75 442 J Creamery Bridge (Papakura-Clevedon ,, 200 Road) 443 Creighton Road (£1 for £1) ... ,, 100

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item. 1917 -18. MINISTER OF PUBLIC WORKS— continued. 444 445 446 VOTE No. 108— continued. Roads, etc. — continued. Auckland Boad District —continued. Flat Bush Hill ... ... Manukau Granger Bridge ... ... ,, Great South Road (Papakura Town ,, District), (£1 for £1) Howick Main Road (£1 for £1) Kauri Clump Road, No. 1 (£1 for £1) Kawakawa Bay to Hauarahi Stream ,, Maraetai to Clevedon (£1 for £1) Mataitai to Hauraki Plains, via Orere ,, McLennon Hill Road (£1 for £1) ... Mellon Bay, No. 1 (£1 for £1) McPherson Eoad ... ... ,, Ness Valley ... ... ,, Eanfurly Eoad (£1 for £1) Eedoubt Eoad (£1 for £1) .., Vincent Eoad ... ... ,, Waikopu Bridge ... ... ,, Whitford Homestead Bridge (£1 for £1) Whitford to Brookby ... ... ,, Amodeo Bay to Bolton's ... Coromandel Cabbage Bay Wharf Eoad ... ,, Cabbage Bay Settlement Eoad ... ,, Coromandel to Kuaotunu ... ,, Coromandel to Manaia (£1 for £1) ... ,, Coromandel to Mercury Bay (£150, ,, £1 for £1) Coromandel to Tererenga (£1 for £1) ,, Driving Creek to Kikowhakarere (£1 for £1) ,, Driving Creek to Tokatea ... ,, Kaimarama to Gumtown (£50, £1 for £1) ,, Kapanga Quarry Eoad (£1 for £1) ... Kennedy Bay Bridge ... ... ,, Kennedy Bay to Cabbage Bay ... ,, Kennedy Bay Settlement Eoad (£50, ,, £1 for £1) Kennedy Bay to Tuteawa ... ,, Kikowhakarere to Cabbage Bay (£1 ,, for £1) Kuaotunu to Mercury Bay (£1 for £1) ,, Manaia to Waikawau (£1 for £1) ... ,, Mercury Bay to Whenuakite ... ,, Mercury Bay to Tairua ... ,, Mill Creek Settlement Eoad Ohuka to Wharekaho ... ... ,, Port Jackson Settlement Boad ... ,, Port Jackson Settlement Eoad pro- ,, tective works (£1 for £1) Stony Bay to Holland's ... ,, Tairua to Whenuakite ... ... ,, Whangapoua to Kennedy Bay ... ,, Whangapoua Valley ... ... ,, Clinch Eoad (Kimihia) ... ... Waikato Cambridge to Morrinsville, via Tama- ,, here (£1 for £1) Draper Eoad ... ... ,, French Pass Eoad ... i ... ,, Gordonton to Motumaoho (£1 for £1) ,, Great South Eoad (Huntly to Taupiri), (on account of £950, £1 for £1) Hamilton to Matangi (£1 for £1) ... ,, Jeffries to Falls Eoad ... ... ,, Lake Eoad (Wairenga) ... ... ,, Mangapiko Valley ... ... ,, £ 150 50 100 £ 447 448 449 450 451 452 453 454 455 456 457 458 459 460 461 462 463 464 465 466 467 400 50 272 425 125 100 50 150 50 100 100 50 75 200 100 50 400 100 200 100 280 468 469 470 471 472 473 474 475 50 100 125 350 50 200 100 100 476 477 100 125 478 479 480 481 482 483 484 485 150 74 75 100 75 75 50 60 486 487 488 489 490 491 148 100 50 50 50 100 492 493 494 495 50 150 100 500 496 497 498 499 75 50 75 50

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Item. 191718. MINISTER OF PUBLIC WORKS— continued. £ £ 500 501 502 503 504 505 506 507 508 509 510 511 512 513 514 515 516 517 518 519 520 521 522 523 524 525 VOTE No. 108— continued. Roads, etc. — continued. Auckland Boad District— continued. Mangatea ... ... Waikato Mangawhara Stream Bridge (Proctor's), (£1 for £1) Matahura to Te Hoe (£1 for £1) Matahura to Mangapiko Valley ... ,, Ohinewai Railway-station to Ngarua ,, Block (£1 for £1) Ruakura Experimental Farm Road , (£2 for £1) Sedgwick Road (Taupiri), (£1 for £1) Taniwha Gorge Tauhei to Morrmsville (£1 for £1) ... ," Te Kauwhata Railway - station to ,, Matahura River (£200 on account of £1,504, £1 for £1) Te Kauwhata Railway-station Road . ,, (£1 for £1) Waerenga to Waitakaruru (£1 lor £1) ,, Waipuna Valley ... ... ,, Waipuna Stream Bridge (£1 for £1)... ,, Whangamarino Falls ... ... ,, Whangamarino River Bridge (below Falls) ,, Waikato River Bridge (Eangiriri) Waikato & Eaglan Hikuwai to Whangamata ... Thames Matatoki (£1 for £1) Miranda to Waitakaruru ... ,, Netherton to Turua ... ... ,, Ngataipua East (£1 for £1) Omahu Valley ... ... ,, Opani to Turua ... ... ,, Otanui ... ... ,, Piako Eiver Bridge (Orchard) (on account ,, of £2,240, £lfor£l) Piako Eiver Bridge (Orchard) to Turua- ,, Netherton Eoad (£1 for £1) Puriri Ferry (Thames Eiver) ... ,, Puriri Ferry Eoad (West), (Huirau), (£1 for £1) Puriri Wharf Eoad Thames Ferry (Kopu) and approach ,, roads (on account of £1,500, £1 for £1) Turua to Kerepehi ... ... ,, Waitakaruru Stream Road ... ,, Warahoe Eoad to Towers ... ,, Whangamata to Hikutaia ... ,, Aylesbury to Okaihopi Landing ... Ohinemuri Cartman Eoad ... ... ,, Eastport Eoad ... ... ,, Frankton Eoad ... ... ,, Kaimanawa to Hikutaia (£1 for £1)... ,, Karangahake Station ... ... „ Netherton Bridge to Hubbard ... ,, Netherton to Kerepehi .. ... ,, Netherton to Turua ... ... ,, Ohinemuri S.D. Block XI, Section 27 (access to) Old Tauranga Eoad to Waihi (£1 for £1) Paeroa to Eotokohu (£1 for £1) ... ,, Paeroa to Waitoa (£1 for £1) Eangiora (West) ... ... ,, Eobinson Eoad ... ... ,, Tahuna to Waikaka ... ... ,, 147 200 50 100 250 100 200 100 150 300 50 225 100 100 63 400 3,764 500 100 150 50 50 50 50 50 1,500 526 100 527 528 529 53U 500 100 100 1,000 531 532 533 534 535 536 537 538 539 540 541 542 543 544 100 340 100 200 350 200 75 100 200 50 250 200 284 100 545 546 547 548 549 550 125 250 100 100 166 50

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tern. MINISTER OF PUBLIC WORKS— continued. 191718. VOTE No. 108— continued. Roads, etc. — continued. Auckland Boad District, —continued. Tirohia to Te Aroha (main road and Ohinemuri deviation), (£1 for £1) Turua to Kerepehi ... ... ,, Waihou Eiver Bridge and approaches ,, (Tirohia) Tahuna to Ohinewai (Mangawhara) Ohinemuri (£1,500, £1 for £1) and Waikato Baker Eoad ... ... Piako Gould Eoad ... ... ,, Hutchinson Eoad ... ... ,, Kirihone to Walton ... ... ,, Kiwitahi (£1 for £1) Motumaoho Station Eoad ... ,, McLaren Eoad .• ... ... ,, No. 4 Eoad (Waitoa) No. 7 Eoad (Waitoa), (£1 for £1) ... Sanatorium Eoad ... ... ,, School Eoad (£1 for £1)... Stanley Eoad (£1 for £1) Thompson Track ... ... ,, Tatuahana to Kirihone ... ... ,, Waghorn Eoad (£1 for £1) ... ,, Waihou Eiver Bridge (Wairongomai), ,, (£1 for £1) Waihou Eiver Bridge (Te Aroha), (widening) ,, Wairongomai to Maungakawa (£1 for £1) ,, Walton to Kiwitahi (£1 for £1) Ngutumanga ... ... Piako and Ohinemuri Boundary Street Creek Diversion (£1 Te Aroha for £1) Borough Waihou Eiver Improvements (£1 for £1) Ditto Awaroa Landing Eoad (£1 for £1) .. Eaglan Bennett Eoad (Te Akau), (£1 for £1) Clark Eoad ... ... ... ,, Dingle Eoad (£1 for £1) ... ,, Glen Murray to Bregmen Landing (£1 for £1) ,, Glen Murray to Eangiriri ... ,, Harapepe to Te Eore (£300, £1 for £1), (on account of £1,000) Huntly to Kahuruhuru ... ... ,, Huntly to Pukemiro (on account of ,, £500, £1 for £2) Huntly to Eangiriri West (£1 for £1) ,, Kahuruhuru Stream Bridge (£1 for £1) ,, ' Kelseys to Port Waikato ... ,, Mangaokahu bridges ... ... ,, Matakotia ... ... ,, McGuire Eoad (£1 for £1) Onewhero to Wairamarama ... ,, Opotoru Bridge and Approach ... ,, Otoroheao Trig Eoad ... ... ,, Port Waikato to Tuakau Bridge (on ,, account of £2,500, £1 for £1) Pukekawa to Bregmen Landing (£1 for £1) ,, Punga Punga Creek Eoad ... ,, Eutherford Eoad ... ... ,, Te Akau Block (access to Section 2, ,, Block X, Whaingaroa Survey District), (£1 for £1) Te Mata to Kauroa Butter-factory (£1 for £1) ,, Te Mata to Euapuke (£1 for £1) Tuakau Bridge to Waingaro (£1 for £1) ,, £ £ 551 329 552 553 50 2,600 554 1,575 555 556 557 558 559 560 561 5-S2 563 564 565 566 567 568 569 570 50 58 150 100 150 100 75 200 200 100 150 500 350 150 100 150 571 572 573 574 680 100 100 48 575 150 576 577 578 579 580 581 582 583 100 350 75 50 50 925 400 425 584 585 50 200 586 587 588 589 590 591 592 593 594 595 75 150 100 525 300 50 2,229 50 175 500 596 597 598 599 238 50 225 75 600 601 602 400 250 700

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Item. 1917 18. MINISTER OF PUBLIC WORKS continued. VOTE No. 108— continued. Roaiis, etc. — continued. Auckland, Boad District —continued. Tuakau-Waingaro .Road to Te Akau Raglan Boundary, via Speedy's Turner's Junction to Watson's Gate ,, (on account of £2,000) Waimai Vallev (on account of £2,730, ,, £1 for £1) Waingaro Springs to Te Uku ... ,, Waingaro Stream Bridge (£1 for £1) ,, Waingaro to Ngaruawahia (£1 for £1) ,, Waingaro-Ngaruawahia Road to Puke- ,, miro (£1 for £1) Wainui (£1 for £1) Waipa Eiver Bridge (Ngaruawahia), ,,'' (on account of £5,000, £1 for £1) Waitetuna to Kaniwhaniwha ... ,, Waitetuna to Waipa (£1 for £1) ... ,, Whatawhata to Eaglan (on account of ,, £8,000, £1 for £1) Cambridge to Kihikihi (on account of Waipa £750, £1 for £1) Kihikihi to Otorohanga (£1 for £1) ... ,, Mangapiko Stream Bridge (£1 for £1) ,, Pirongia-Paterangi to Ohaupo (£1 for £1) „ Pirongia to Te Awamutu (on account ,, of £750, £1 for £1) Eoto-o-rangi to Mangapiko Stream (£1 ,, for £1) Te Awamutu to Ohaupo (on account ,, of £1,500, £1 for £1) Te Awamutu to Pirongia (Frontier ,, Eoad), (on account of £350, £1 for £1) Te Awamutu to Puahue (£1 for £1) ... ,, Te Eore to Paterangi (£1 for £1) ... ,, Whatawhata Swamp Eoad (£1 for £1) ,, Waikato Eiver Bridge (Ngaruawahia) Waipa and Eaglan Bridgewater to French Pass ... Matamata Cambridge to Hinuera ... ... ,, Cambridge to Horahora ... ... ,, Fisher Deviation ... ... ,, French Pass Boad ... ... ,, Hamilton to Eotorua (Tirau to Rotorua) ,, Kaimai ... ... ... ,, Kihikihi to Waotu ... ... ,, Lichfield to Southern County Bound- ,, ary (£1 for £1) Mangamahu Bridge (£1 for £1) Muirhead Eoad (£1 for £1) Ngatira to Okohiriki ... ... ,, Omahine Stream Bridge... ... ,, Peria (£1 for £1) Puketurua to Waotu Bridge ... ,, Putaruru to Puketurua ... ... ,, Waimakariri Bridge (£1 for £1) ... ,, Waitiariki Bridge (£1 for £1) Flat Eoad ... ... West Taupo Kakepuku Improved-farm Settlement ,, (£1 for £1) Kawa ... ... ,, Kihikihi to Waotu ... ... ,, Mangaorongo to Kawa ... ... ,, TePuhi £ £ 100 603 604 350 605 239 606 607 608 609 100 150 200 50 610 611 150 1,000 612 613 614 400 75 3,000 615 250 616 617 618 619 100 55 125 250 620 ■50 621 250 622 100 623, 624 625 626 75 150 700 7,400 627 628 629 630 631 632 633 634 635 50 50 100 75 150 300 450 125 100 636 637 638 639 640 641 642 643 644 645 646 100 100 400 300 100 400 100 300 300 134 125 647 648 649 650 224 150 250 750

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[tern. 191718. MINISTER OF PUBLIC WORKS -continued. £ 651 652 653 654 655 656 657 658 659 660 661 662 663 664 665 666 667 VOTE No. 108—continued. Roads, etc. — continued. Auckland Boad, District —continued. Tokanui to Wharepapa ... ... West Taupo Awaroa to Launch Landing ... Kawhia Awaroa to Mahoe (£1 for £1) ... ,, Kawhia-Aotea Road to Parangi Lake ,, Oparau Block Eoad (£1 for £1) ... ,, Pakihi Eiver Bridge ... ... ,, Pirongia West (£1 for £1) .. ,, Puti Bridge (on account of £1,000) ... ,, Vandy Eoad ... ... ,, Whakapirau ... ... ,, Pirongia to Kawhia ... Kawhia & Waitomo Hangatiki to Waitomo (£1 for £1) ... Waitomo Hauturu to Otorobanga (£1 for £l) ... ,, Kawa (on account of £2,000, £1 for £1) Kio Kio (£1 for £1) Moakurarua Stream Bridge ... ,, Mangaokewa Stream Bridge (£1 for ,, £1) Mangapu Stream Bridge (£1 for £1) ,, Ngutunui to Kawa ... ... ,, Otorohanga to Oruawhero (on account „ of £1,000, £1 for £1) Otorohanga-Otewa Eoad to Eangitoto ,, I.F.S., No. 2. Turitea ... ... ,, Waiwhakaata Eoad (access to Section ,, 16, Block X, Pirongia S.D.), (£1 for £1) Survey, acquisition, and legalization of roads, drains, protective works, gravel-pits, tramways, horse-pad-docks, &c. Supervision Miscellaneous works and services, including assistance towards the construction of roads, bridges, tracks, &c. 485 100 1,000 150 150 300 98 500 110 200 781 175 373 500 475 400 250 668 669 670 131 175 500 671 300 672 673 115 100 674 500 675 676 250 600 Total —Auckland 110,625 677 678 679 680 681 682 683 684 685 686 687 Tauranga Boad District — Carruth Eoad ... ... Tauranga Graham Eoad ... ... ,, Hairini Bridge and approaches (£1 ,, for £1) Otaimatua Bailway-station Eoad ... ,, Pongakawa Block (access) ... ,, Pongakawa Stream Bridge ... „ Pukehina Swamp Eoad ... ... ,, Tauranga-Eotorua Eoad (10s. for £1) ,, Taurangsk to Waihi (£1 for £1) ... ,, Te Puke to Otamarakau (£1 for £1) ... ,, Te Puna Parish (access to Sections „ 1 to 7), (£1 for £1) Waimapu Biding roads (£1 for £1) ... ,, Waitakohe Stream Bridge (£1 for £1) Ngongotalia Valley ... ... Eotorua Eotorua to Eotorua County Boundary, ,, via NgHwaro Eotorua t o Lake Eotoma ... ,, Stewart Road ... ... ,, Wairoa to Tarawera Lake ... ,, 100 100 2,000 58 346 104 200 500 300 600 40 688 689 690 691 650 350 100 88 692 693 694 250 100 300

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Item. 1917--18. MINISTER OF PUBLIC WORKS— continued. £ £ 695 696 697 698 699 700 701 702 703 704 705 706 707 708 709 710 711 VOTE No. 108— continued. Roads, etc. — continued. Tauranga Boad District— continued. Rotorua to Taupo, via Waiotapu Eotorua and East Taupo Lichfield to Atiamuri (deviation) ... East Taupo Oruanui-Mokai Eoad Bridge ... ,, Oruanui to Taupo (£2 for £1) ... ,, Bell Eoad (Waimana), (£50, £1 for £1) Whakatane Lowe Eoad (£50, £1 for £1) Luxton and Angle Eoad ... ,, Mangaroa to Taneatua ... ... ,, Matata Inland Eoad (£1 for £1) Eangitaiki Eiver-bank Eoad (£1 for £1) ,, Tarawera Bridge (on account) ... ,, Tarawera Bridge (at Outlet), (£1 for £1) ,, Waimana Gorge ... ... ,, Whakatane to Waioho Valley Eoad... ,, Kopokorahi Stream Bridge ... West Taupo Lichfield to Atiamuri (deviation) ... Matamata Survey, acquisition and legalization of roads, drains, protective works, gravel-pits, tramways, horse-pad-docks, &c. Supervision Miscellaneous works and services, including assistance towards the construction of roads, bridges, tracks, &c. 1,299 1,000 200 100 71 58 500 300 201 200 250 750 300 500 75 500 250 712 713 50 100 Total—Tauranga 12,890 714 715 716 717 718 719 720 721 722 723 724 725 726 Gisborne Boad District — Gisborne to Eotorua Stock Track ... Waikohu Hangaroa to Tahora (£1 for £1) ... ,, Kanakanae Settlement Eoad (£269, £1 ,. for£l; £31, £1 for £2) Koranga Stream Bridge (£1 for £1) ... ,, Moanui ... ... ,, Motu Valley (£169, £1 for £1) NeillEoad Ngatapa Block roads (on account of ,, £1,050, £1 for £1) Oliver Eoad ... ... ,, Eakauroa to Tahora ... ... ,, Eoberts's Crossing to Mutuera Eoad ,, (Wharekopae-Tahora), (£1 for £1) Waipaoa Eiver Eoad (£l for £1) ... ,, Wharekopae Eiver Bridge (Eoberts's ,, Grossing), (£1 for £1) Wharekopae to Tahora No. 2 (£1 for £1) Hawai to East Cape ... ... Opotiki Kowhai ... ... ,, Kutarere Landing Road... ... ,, Mangonuku ... ... ,, Motuore Landing Road .. ... ,, Whin ray Road to Maromouku Saddle ,, Motu Falls to Whitikau ... Nukuhou Bridge to Waimana (£1 for £1) ,, Opotiki to Motu (£175, £1 for £1) ... Opotiki to Ohiwa (£1 for £1) Otara Eiver protective works (£1 for ,, £1) Te Waiti 491 1,000 300 250 100 275 550 450 500 650 200 100 330 727 728 729 730 731 732 733 734 735 736 737 738 300 500 130 200 287 350 200 200 537 769 120 500 739 315

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Lie in. item. f 1917•18. MINISTER OF PUBLIC WORKS— continued. £ £ 740 741 742 743 744 745 746 747 748 749 750 751 752 753 754 755 756 757 758 759 740 741 742 743 . 744 745 746 747 748 749 750 751 752 753 754 755 756 ; 757 758 i 759 760 761 762 763 764 765 766 767 768 769 770 771 772 773 774 775 776 777 778 779 780 781 782 I VOTE No. 108— continued. Roads, ETC. — continued. Gisborne Boad District —continued. Waiawa River Bridge (£1 for £1), Opotiki (Willow-tree Crossing) Waioeka Parish (access to Section 365a) ,, Waioeka River Main Road (£1 for £1) ,, Waiotahi Parish (access to Sections ,, 245 and 252) Waiotahi Valley and Extension (£1 for £1) Opotiki to Whakatane, via Nukuhou Opotiki and (£lfor£f) Whakatane Ihungia Stream Bridge (£1 for £1) ... Waiapu Karakatuwhero ... ... ,, Main East Coast Road (Tologa to ,, Tokomaru), (£1 for £f) Main East Coast Road (Tokomaru to ,, Waiapu Bridge), (Tikitiki) Main East Coast Road (Waiapu Bridge ,, (Tikitiki) to Te Araroa), (£500, £1 for £1) Maraehara ... ... ... ,, Eotokautuku Bridge (on account of ,, £4,178, £1 for £1) Te Araroa to Whangaparaoa, via ,, Kokomuku (£1 for £1) Te Puia to Waipiro (£1 for £1) Tuparoa to Euatorea (£1 for £1) ... ,, Waiapu Inland Eoad ... ,, Gisborne to Hangaroa ... ... Cook Gisborne to Wairoa, via Morere (Muri- „ wai to Tarewa), (£1 for £1) Gisborne to Wairoa, via Tiniroto ,, (Hangaroa Junction to Tiniroto), (£1 for £1) Gisborne to Wairoa, via Te Arai Valley ,, (Parakanapa deviation) Hangaroa Eiver Bridge (Steele's) ... ,, Hangaroa to Tahora (£1 for £1) ... ,, Hangaroa to Waikaremoana(£1 for £1) ,, Main East Coast Eoad (Gisborne to ,, Tologa), (£1 for £1) Mangapoike Valley (£1 for £1) Muhunga Stream Bridge ... ,, Ngatapa to Wharekopae (£1 for £1) ,, Tokanui to Tarewa (£1 for £1) ... ,, Tologa to Wigan (£1 for £1) Totangi (Ngatapa Settlement), (£1 for £1) ,, Waimata to Arakihi ... ... ,, Whareongaonga to Main Eoad ... ,, Willows Settlement ... ... ,, Dahm Eoad (£1 for £1) ... ... Wairoa Frasertown to Waikaremoana (£1 for £1) ,, Gisborne to Wairoa, via Morere (Nu- ,, haka to Tarewa), (£1 for £1) Gisborne to Wairoa, via Morere (Wai- ,, roa to Nuhaka) (iisborne to Wairoa, via Tinoroto (Te ,, Eeinga to Frasertown), (on account of £3,000, £1 for £1) Mangaone (£1 for £1) Mangapahi (on account of £870, £1 for £1) ,, Maraenui ... ... ,, Ohuka Branch Eoad (Omahanui to ,, Whataroa), (£2 for £1) 500 100 468 46 250 1,181 150 100 471 250 700 100 1,678 400 200 275 200 150 1,000 150 100 1,200 500 300 2,150 200 50 325 300 207 160 150 100 100 232 693 1,700 : 600 500 100 350 666 75

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tern. 1917-1917-18. MINISTER OF PUBLIC WORKS— continued. £ VOTE No. 108— continued. Roads, etc. — continued. Gisborne Boad District —continued. 183 | Eotokakarangu (£1 for £1) ... Wairoa 500 784 i Euakituri Eiver Bridge (Erepeti Crossing) ,, 1,481 785 Euakituri Vallev (£1 for £1) ... ,, 575 786 EuapapatoWai'kare-Taheke(£399, £1 ,, 499 for £1) 787 Scamperdown to Mangapoike (£1 for £1) ,, 305 788 Tahaenui ... ... „ 150 789 Waihua Valley ... ... ,, 175 790 Waikaremoana Accommodation House „ 470 Eoad 791 Waikokopu (£1 for £1) ... ... „ 75 792 Waikokopu to Wharerata (£1 for £1) ,, 325 793 Wairoa Eiver Bridge (Wairoa), (£1 ,, 1,000 for £2) 794 I Wairoa to Napier (Hnrumua to Wai- ,, 600 hua), (£1 for £1) 795 Survey, acquisition, and legalization ... 100 of roads, drains, protective works, gravel-pits, tramways, horse-pad-docks, &c. 796 Supervision ... ... ... 150 797 | Miscellaneous works and services, in- ... 100 eluding assistance towards the construction of roads, bridges, tracks, &Q. 796 797 Total—Gisborne ... ... 35,236 798 799 800 801 802 803 804 805 806 807 Taumarunui Boad District — 798 Te Kuiti to Awakino (Piopio to Manga- Awakino 750 otaki Bridge), (£1 for £1) 799 Aorangi ... ... ... Ohura 672 300 Huia ... ... ... „ 552 301 Koiro Block (Kaikara) (on account of ,, 200 £400, £1 for £1) 802 Koiro Block (Otuiti Eoad), (on account ,, 400 of £800, £1 for £1) 803 Ohura (North of Paparata Saddle), 2,200 (Matiere to Mahirakau) 804 Ohura (North of Paparata Saddle), ,, 198 (Matiere Township) 805 Ohura (North of Paparata Saddle), ,, 344 (Otahu Eoad to Paparata Saddle) 806 Opotiki (Orongomai Block) ... ,, 567 807 Tongaporutu to Mangaroa (East of ,, 1,269 Kotare Stream) 308 Waikaka (£305, £1 for £1) ... „ 1,136 309 [ Waitaanga North ... ... ,, 125 310 Waitawhena (on account of £1,912, ,, 316 £1 for £1) 311 | Whenuakura (East) .... ... ,, 100 312 j Miroahuiao to Matiere ... ... Ohura and , 637 Waitomo 313! Bull's Creek Eoad ... ... Waitomo 1 250 314 Ilauturu ... ... „ 50 315 Kahuwera (£1 for £1) ... ... „ 100 316 Kokakoroa ... ... ,, 77 317 Kumara (£1 for £1) ... ... ,, 870 318 Mairoa (on account of £1,093, £1 for £1) „ 365 319 Mangakewa Stream protective works ,, 100 (Te Kuiti), (on account of £200) 808 809 810 811 812 813 814 815 816 817 818 819

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Item. 1917 -18. MINISTER OF PUBLIC WORKS— continued. £ £ 820 821 822 823 824 825 826 827 828 829 830 VOTE No. 108— continued. Roads, etc. — continued. Taumarunui Boad, District —continued. Mangapeehi ... ... Waitomo Mangapu Bridge (£1 for £1) ... ,, Mapara (£1 for £1) Miroahuiao to Marokopa River-Mahoe- ,, nui Road Miroahuiao to Matiere (Wairere Hill ,, metalling), (£1 for £1) Mokauiti ... ... „ Paekaka ... ... ,, Piopio Domain Bridge ... ... ,, Te Kuiti to Mokau (East of Mangaotaki) ,, Hikimutu (£68, £1 for £1) ... Kaitieke Kakahi Footbridge (near Box Com- ,, pany's works) Kokakonui ... ... ... ,, Owhango to Hikimutu (on account of ,, £2,000, £1 10s. for £1) Te Maire ... ... ,, Waiouru to Tokaanu ... ... East Taupo Taringamotu Valley Road (£1 for £1) West Taupo Taringamotu Stream Bridge ... ,, Wanganui River Bridge and approaches Kaitieke (Taumarunui), (on account of £2,700, andTaumaru£1 for £1) nui Borough Survey, acquisition, and legalization of roads, drains, gravel-pits, protective works, tramways, horse-paddocks, &e, i 468 131 100 272 280 300 55 50 280 134 75 831 832 " 289 500 833 834 835 836 837 900 80 200 500 500 838 250 839 840 Supervision Miscellaneous works and services, including assistance towards the construction of roads, bridges, tracks. &0. 350 100 Total—Taumarunui 17,092 4 Stratford, Boad District — Awakino School Eeserve Eoad (£1 Awakino for £1) Hunt Eoad ... ... ,, Kiritehere to Mangakokopu (on account ,, of £818, £1 for £1) Mangakokopu ... ... ,, Mangatoa ... ... ... ,, Marakopa River to Mahoenui (£1 for £1) ,, Mokau Eiver Snagging ... ... ,, Pakihikura ... ... ... ,, Tirua to Waikawau ... ... ,, Waikawau (£100, £1 for £1) Waipaua to Kiritehere ... ... ,, Waipaua (£1 for £1) ... ... ,, Kaipikan (£1 for £1) ... ... Clifton Kawau Stream Bridge (on account) ... ,, Makino Stream Bridge (Berekino ,, Eoad) Mangaone Stream Bridge (Eerekino ,, Eoad) Mimi to Mokau ... ... ,, Okau Extension ... ... ,, Okoke (£1 for £1) 70 841 842 843 50 207 844 845 846 847 848 849 850 851 852 853 854 855 232 1,900 207 100 112 83 158 300 52 250 400 250 856 250 857 858 859 927 175 200

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Item. 1917-18. MINISTER OF PUBLIC WORKS— continued. £ £ VOTE No 180.— continued. Roads, etc. — continued. Stratford Road District —continued. Piko ... ... Clifton "Puke and Ngatoto Eoads ... ,, Pukearuhe (on account of £700, £1 ,, for £1) Berekino ... ... ,, Uruti (£1 for £1) Uruti-Tangitu deviation (£1 for £1)... ,, Waitara Valley (Tangitu Eoad to ,, Mangare Eoad) Brewer (Strathmore to Murcott Whangamomona Eoad), (£1 for £1) Mangaowata Stream Bridge (Peder- ,, sen's) Marangae Block Eoad (Kohuratahi)... ,, Ohura (south of Paparata Saddle), ,, (£1 for £1) Putikituna (on account of £1,500, £1 ,, for £1) Putikituna Eoad bridges (£1 for £1) ,, Rimuputa (£50, £1 for £1) Tangarakau Valley ... ... ,, Tirohanga ... ... ,, Carrington (Plymouth Road to Surrey Taranaki Hill Eoad) Egmont Eoad (Upper) ... ... ,, Everitt Eoad (£1 for £1)... Hill Eoad Kaimata South (£1 for £1) ... ,, King Eoad (£1 for £1) ... Kohete (£1 for £1) ... ... „ Lepper Eoad ... ... ,, Momona Stream Bridge ... ... ,, Ngatoro Stream Bridge (£1 for £1) ... ,, Eatapiko (£1 for £1) Eimutauteka (£1 for £1)... .. ,, WaiwakaihoEiver Bridge protective works ,, Ohaku (Ngarika Eoad to Newall Eoad) Egmont Punehu Bridge (£1 for £1) ... Wiremu Boad (Kiri Eoad to Ngariki ,, Eoad) Ahoroa ... ... Patea Ball Boad Moeawatea Eiver Bridge (Whararaki Eoad) ,, Ahoroa Stream Bridge (£1 for £1) Stratford Makahu Stream Bridge (O'Connor's), (£1 for £2) Mangaotuku River Bridge (£1 for £1) ,, Mangaowata Stream Bridge ... ,, Moeawatea Valley ... Eltham and Patea Waitiri ... ... Eltham and Stratford £ 860 861 862 55 148 300 863 864 865 866 169 1,600 1,250 125 867 500 868 350 869 870 300 500 871 500 872 873 874 875 876 200 128 150 122 250 877 878 879 880 881 882 883 884 885 886 887 888 889 890 891 56 200 50 200 50 162 100 400 200 100 100 500 475 800 1,000 892 893 894 895 896 73 85 200 250 150 897 898 899 900 250 250 1,250 1,100 901 Survey, acquisition, and legalization of roads, drains, protective works, gravel-pits, tramways, horse-pad-docks, <tc. Supervision Miscellaneous works and services, including assistance towards the construction of roads, bridges, tracks, Ac. 100 102 303 250 100 Total—Stratford I 21,021 I i * Settlers' contributions reoeived prior to Silt March, 1 917.

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Item. MINISTER OF PUBLIC WORKS— continued. 1917 18. VOTE No. 108— continued. Wanganui Boad, District — Dreadnought Eoad (£1 for £1) . ... Waimarino Horopito (£150, £1 for £1) Karioi to Eangiwaea (on account of ,, £3,500), (£1 for £1) Mangaetoroa (£1 for £1)... ... ,, Manganui-o-te-ao Eiver Bridge (Hoihenga), (£2 for £1) Mangateitei Stream Bridge (Ohakune), ,, (on account of £400) Mangatiti West Ohakune Borough (Eata, Ayr, and ,, Tay Streets), (£1 for £1) Ohakune to Waiouru (£1 for £1) ... ,, Baetihi to Ohura (on account of ,, £750, £1 for £1) B,uatiti to Erua ... ... ,, Waitaiki Stream Bridge ... ... ,, Wanganui to Eaetihi (Baetihi to Para- ,, para Eoad Junction), (£500, on account of £1,000, £1 for£l) Hautapu Biver Bridge (£1 for £1) ... Eangitikei Karetu (south) ... ... ,, Mangateweka Stream Bridge ... ,, Mataroa to Mangaweka (on account of ,, £183, £1 for £1) Matawhero Eoad (extension to Eangi- ,, tikei Eiver), (on account of £1,450) Namunui (£1 for £1) Pukemapou (£1 for £2) ... Eangitikei River Bridge (Onepuhi), ,, (on account of £1,000) Taihape to Mataroa (on account of ,, £750, £1 for £1) Tuhoe (£1 for £2) Kaitieke S.D., Block XII, Sections Kaitieke 18 and 19 (access to) Kokako ... ... ,, Kouturoa (East). ... ... ,, Oio (on account of £1,100), (£1 for £1) Eaurimu Township roads ... ,, Eetaruke Eiver Bridge (£1 for £1) ... ,, Waimarino to Eetaruke (£1 for £1) ... ,. Mangahowhi ... ... Wanganui Parahauhau to Te Komai (on account ,, of £427, £1 for £1) Pongaroa (£1 for £1) ... ... ,, Wangaehu Eiver Eoad (£600, £1 for £1) Wanganui to Eaetihi (Parapara Eoad ,, Junction to Taukoro Stream), (on account of £753, £1 for £1) Wanganui River Bridge protection (£1 ,, for £3) Ahuahu ... ... ... Waitotara, Kauarapaoa ... ... ,, Mangaiti Stream Bridge (Eaorikia) ... ,, Eangitatau East Eoad (£1 for £1) ... ,, Wanganui Eiver Eoad (Eight Bank), ,, (Ahuahu to Kauarapaoa) Waitotara Eiver Bridge (on account) Patea Waitotara Eiver Bridge (Lower), (on ,, account of £800, £1 for £1) Waitotara Valley Road (Lower) ... ,, £ 904 905 906 275 275 500 907 908 200 50 909 50 910 911 477 200 912 913 300 250 914 915 916 600 100 938 917 918 919 920 500 150 250 175 921 500 922 923 924 750 350 1.00 925 250 926 927 292 200 928 929 930 931 932 933 934 935 329 247 275 100 250 1,500 200 75 936 937 938 100 900 250 939 750 940 941 942 943 944 250 314 500 100 250 945 946 200 250 947 250 6—13. 7a.

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item. 191718. MINISTER OF PUBLIC WORKS—continued. £ £ 948 949 VOTE No. 108— continued. Roads, etc. — continued,. Wanganui, Boad, District —continued. Waitotara to Momahaki (£1 for £1) ... Patea 500 Survey, acquisition, and legalization ... i 600 of roads, drains, protective works, gravel-pits, tramways, horse-pad-docks, ko. Supervision ... ... ... 100 Miscellaneous works and services, in- ... 100 eluding assistance towards the construction of roads, bridges, tracks, &c. 950 951 Total—Wanganui ... ... 16,1.22 _____ 952 953 954 955 956 957 958 959 960 961 962 963 964 965 966 967 968 969 970 971 972 973 Napier Boad District — Matahoura Stream Bridge (£1 for £1) Wairoa 400 Maungaturanga Stream Bridge (£1 for £1) ,, 500 Putere Eoad (£1 for £1) ... ... ,, 200 Kaka Creek Bridge ... ... ,, 850 Kakariki ... ... ,, 400 Mohaka Bridge (£1 for £1), (strengthening) „ 100 Napier to Wairoa (Tongoio to Mohaka) ,, 950 Ohurakura (£1 for £1) ... ,, 275 Peka Creek Bridge ... ... ,, 200 Tongoio to Mohaka (£1 for £1), (To- ,, 250 ngoio Settlement) Waitara to Pohukura . ... ,, 200 Dartmoor Eoad (£1 for £4) ... Hawke's Bay 1,000 Dartmoor Eoad (on account of £1,000) ,, 300 Heretaunga Plains (flood damages), (£1 ,, 1,000 for £1) Inner Harbour Bridge (Port Ahuriri), ,, 5,000 (subsidy) Napier to Puketitiri (£1 for £2) ... ,, 200 Napier to Taihape (Gentle Annie Hill) ,, 200 Pohue to Eunanga (Pohue to Titiokura ,, 100 Saddle) Pohue to Eunanga (Titiokura to Runanga) ,, 450 Timahanga Eoad ... ... ,, 100 Ashley-Clinton to South Makaretu ... Waipawa ; 500 Jensen Eoad (access to section 2, ,, 200 Block V, Makaretu S.D.) Makaretu Block Eoad ... ... ,, 110 Makaretu Eiver Bridge (£1 for £1) ... ,, 1,000 Mangaonuku Eiver Bridge (£1 for £1) ,, 725 Waipawa Eiver Bridge (Fletcher's ,, 750 Crossing) Waipawa Eiver Bridge, Ongaonga to ,, 500 Tikokino Eoad (£1 for £2) Waipukurau Bridge ... ... Waipukurau 450 Kotuku to Elsthorpe ... ... Patangata 225 Porangahau Bridge (on account of ,, 400 £2,000) Porangahau to Wimbledon (on account ,, 500 of £1,500, £1 for £1) Survey, acquisition, and legalization of ... 100 roads, drains, protective works, gravel-pits, tramways, horse-pad-docks, &c. Supervision ... ... ... 100 Miscellaneous works and services, in- ... 100 eluding assistance towards the construction of roads, bridges, tracks, Ajc Total—Napier ... ... ... 18,335 974 975 976 977 978 979 980 981 982 983 184 185

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item. 1917 18. MINISTER OF PUBLIC WORKS— continued, £ £ 986 987 988; 989! 990 991 992 993 994 995 996 997 j 998' 999 1.000 1001 1002 1003 1004 1005 1006 1007 1008 1009 1010 1011 1012 1013 VOTE No. 108— continued. Roads, etc. — continued. Wellington Boad District — Blairgowrie Block (Main Eoad through Dannevirke Settlement) Cross Eoad (£100, £1 for £1) Upper Mangahe Eoad (£1 for £2) ... ,, Manawatu Eiver Bridge (Kopua), (£1 Dannevirke for £2) and Waipawa Auputa (£1 for £1) ... ... Kiwitea Kiwitea Stream Bridge (£1 for £1) ... ,, Lagoon Eoad (North), (£1 for £1) ... Mangoira ... ... ,, Manaia (£100, £1 for £1) Middle Eoad (£1 for £1) ... Ohingaiti to Pemberton (Mangamako ,, to Otara Section) Gorge Eoad ... Kiwitea & Pohangina Finnis Eoad (£1 for £1) ... ... Pohangina Pohangina Bridge and approaches ,, (Piripiri Crossing), (£1 for £1) Tunipo ... ... ,, Inland Eoad (£150, £1 for £1) ... Eangitikei Bangitane ... ... ,, Scott Eoad (£1 for £1) ... ... Kairanga Pyke Eoad (£1 for £1) ... ... Manawatu Alfredton to Weber (Waione Section), Weber (£1 for £1) Dannevirke to Herbertville, via Waipatiki „ Gordon Eoad (£1 for £1) ... ,, Tahukaretu ... ... ,, Te Awaputahi (bridle-track) ... ,, Ti Tree Point to Akito (£1 for £1) ... Ballance to Gorge (Matheson's Corner) Pahiatua Dew Eoad ... ... ,, Kaitawa Eidge (on account of £1,000, ,, £1 for £1) Kumeroa (£1 for £1) ... ... ,, Makairo to Coonoor ... ... ,, Manawatu Gorge ... ... ,, Mangatainoka Eiver Bridge (redeck- ,, ing), (Mangahao Eoad), (£1 for £2) Mangatainoka Eiver Bridge protective ,, works (Mangahao Eoad), (£1 for £2) Moore Eoad ... ... ... ,, Pahiatua to Pongaroa (£1 for £1) ... ,, Tiraumea Valley (£1 for £1) ... ,, Towai (£1 for £1) Woodville to Aohanga (£1 for £2) ... ,, Hutewai ... ... Akitio McLeod Eoad ... ... ,, Pahiatua to Pongaroa (£1 for £1), ,, (Summit to Pongaroa) Pongaroa to Aohanga (£1 for £1), „ (Akaroa to Glencoe) Pongaroa to Aohanga (Pongaroa to ,, Waikaka) Spur (£1 for £1) Ti Tree Point to Akitio (£1 for £1) ... Titaramonga ... ... ,, Towai (£1 for £1) Waikereru (£1 for £1) ... ... „ Mangaatua Stream Bridge (on account Woodville of £400, £1 for £1) Pakaheke ... ... ,, Alfredton to Pah Valley (£1 for £1) ... Eketahuna 120 200 300 500 150 350 75 150 200 250 350 647 50 150 150 312 118 600 150 105 155 50 250 75 400 100 483 300 1014 1015 1016 1017 100 3,842 524 150 1018 100 1019 1020 1021 1022 1023 1024 1025 1026 453 550 100 100 200 60 75 400 1027 500 1028 250 1029 1030 1031 1032 1033 1034 250 451 200 200 319 200 1035 1036 400 175

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item. 191718. 1 MINISTER OF PUBLIC WORKS— continued. VOTE No. 108— continued. Roads, etc. — continued. Wellington Boad District —continued. Alfredton to Weber (Hutiwai Road Eketahuna to Akitio County Boundary) Benton Eoad ... ... ,, Cliff (£1 for £1) Ihuraua Eiver Bridge (£1 for £1) ... ,, Kopikopiko (£1 for £1) ... ... ,, Mangatakato (£1 for £1)... ... ,, Pari (Upper), (£1 for £1) Puketoi ... ... ,, Quarry (£1 for £1) ... ... ,, Saunders Eoad ... ... ,, Te Hoe Stream Bridge (second cross- ,, ing), (£1 for £1) Waihoki Valley (£1 for £1) Makakahi Stream Bridge (£1 for £1) Eketahuna and Mauriceville Blairlogie to East Coast... ... Masterton Brancepeth's to Stronvar(£l for £1) ,, Kaumingiand Rorokoko bridges (£1 for£2) ,, Kopuaranga Bridge (Eangitumau), (on ,, account of £1,000) Mangaparuparu (£1 for £1) ... ,, Mangarai ... ... ,, Masterton to Waimata (deviation), ,, (£475, £1 for £1, and £400, £1 for £2) Eiversdale (£1 for £2) . . ... ,, Taueru Bridge ... ... ,, Upper Opaki (£1 for £1)... ... ,, Waingawa Bridge (on account of £3,000) ,, Westmere (£1 for £1) Dagg Eoad (£1 for £1) ... ... Mauriceville Mangaorongo (£1 for £1) ... ,, Wangaehu ... ... ... ,, Alfredton to Tinui (£1 for £1) ... Castlepoint Castlepoint Eoad (Post Office to land- ,, ing shed), (£1 for £1) lea (Langdale) ... ... ,, Springhill Boad (£1 for £1) ... ,, Whakataki to Castlepoint (£1 for £2) ,, Whakataki to Mataikona ... ,, Awhea (Waipawa), (£1 for £2) ... Featherston Dyerville Eoad (£1 for £1) Featherston to Masterton (Feather- ,, ston to Military Camps), (£1 for £1) Grey town to Mount Hector ... ,, Eange Eoad ... ... ,, Eimutaka Eoad and bridges (£1 for £1) ,, Euakokopatuna Stream Bridge (£l ,, for £1) Turanganui Eiver Bridge (£1 for £1) ,, Wangaehu Valley (Mahupuku) ... ,, Craigielea ... ... Wairarapa S. Driscoll Eoad (£1 for £1) Gladstone to Wharau (£1 for £1) ... ,, Hoiki ... ... ,, Hururua (Carrington Settlement) ... ,, Kaiwhata (£200, £1 for £1) Kaiwhata Landing deviation ... ,, Eocky Hill Tea Creek Eoad ... ... ,, Wharau to Flat Point ... ... ,, '| Gladstone (£1 for £1) ... ... Horowhenua £ £ 700 1037 1038 1039 1040 1041 1042 1043 1044 1045 1046 1047 100 100 150 75 100 100 180 100 75 350 1048 1049 200 300 1050 1051 1052 : 1053 250 300 500 500 1054 1055 1056 175 150 875 1057 1058 1059 1060 1061 1062 1063 1064 1065 1066 100 500 50 700 500 i 105 75 200 175 75 1067 1068 1 1069 1070 1071 1072 1073 150 50 50 150 100 57 200 1074 1075 1076 1077 • 135 200 300 250 1078 1079 1080 1081 1082 1083 1084 1085 1086 1087 1088 1089 ! 1090 1,100 50 100 50 50 50 50 300 350 150 300 100 50

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item. 191718. MINISTER OF PUBLIC WORKS— continued. £ £ 1091 1092 1093 1094 1095 1096 1097 1098 1099 1100 1101 1102 1103 1104 1105 1106 VOTE No. 108— continued. Roads, etc. — continued. Wellington Boad District —continued. Mangaone to Rikiorangi (£1 for £1)... Horowhenua Otaki to Mt. Hector Te Horo to Mangaone (£400, £1 for £1) Waikanae River protective works ... ,, ■ Waikanae to Hadfield (£1 for £1) ... ,, Waikawa Beach Road (£1 for £1) ... ,, Cottle Road to Normandale ... Hutt Mangakotukutuku Bridge ... ,, Moiling Settlement Eoad ... ,, Paekakariki Hill (£1 for £1) Pahautanui to Upper Hutt (£105, £1 for £1) ,, Plimmerton to Pukerua ... ... ,, Pukerua to Paekakariki ... ... ,, Waikanae to Upper Hutt ... ,, Porirua Bailway-station to Mental Hospital Makara Survey, acquisition, and legalization of roads, drains, gravel-pits, protective works, tramways, horsepaddocks, ifec. Supervision Miscellaneous works and services, including assistance towards the construction of roads, bridges, tracks, &c. 150 50 409 75 250 400 75 100 75 50 175 125 50 2,919 50 100 1107 1108 100 200 Total—Wellington 33,794 1109 1110 1111 1112 1113 1114 1115 1116 1117 1118 1119 1120 1121 1122 1123 1124 Nelson Boad District — Elaine Bay to Hope and Harvey's Sec- Sounds tions Fitzroy Track ... ... ,, French Pass, Admiralty Bay, and ,, Croixelles Tracks Hamilton Bay Track ... ... ,, Wairangi Saddle to Papawai Bay ... ,, Wairaugi Wharf to Papakorea ... ,, Croixelles to Whangarei... ... Waimea Blackbird Valley (£1 for £1) Brooklyn Valley extension ... ,, Cameron Eoad (Dart Eiver) ... ,, Cemetery Eoad (Lower Moutere), (£1 ,, for £1) Dove Eiver Bridge ... ... ,, Ellis Creek Eoad ... ... ,, Graham to Pearse Eiver... ... ,, Graham Eiver Eoad ... ... ,, Hill Street (Eichmoud), (£1 for £1) Horopito ... ... ,, Little Sydney Eoad ... ... ,, Maitai Eiver Bridge (Pole Ford), (£1 for £1) Mapua to Bluffs (formation), (£1 for £1) ,, Mapua to Bluffs (metalling), (£1 for £1) ,, ' Mapua-Motueka Eoad to Upper ,, Moutere Mapua - Upper Moutere to Appleby ,, Mapua to Upper Moutere (Buxton's) ,, Mapua to Upper Moutere (Bensemann's) ,, Mapua-Motueka Eoad, via Moutere ,, Bluffs Marahau to Sandy Bay ... ... „ 50 75 125 100 50 50 200 50 200 100 50 54 75 115 300 250 1125 1126 1127 150 100 200 1128 1129 1130 500 150 573 1131 1132 1133 1134 1,000 100 450 1,179 1135 238

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t» Ml 1917-18. MINISTER OF PUBLIC WORKS— continued. £ 1186 U37 ! 1138 1139 1140 1141 1142 1143 1144 1145; 1146! 1147 1148. 1149 ! 1150! 1151 1152 1153 1154 1155 1156 1157 1158 1159 1160 1161 11621 1163! 1164 1165 1166 1167 1168 1169 11705 1171 1172 1173 VOTE No. 108— continued. Roads, etc. — continued. Nelson Boad District —continued. Motueka Eiver Bridge (Motueka), (£1 Waimea for £1) Motueka Eiver protective works ... ,, Moutere Mud-flat and extension ,, (metalling) Moutere Mud-flat Eoad (formation and ,, culverts) Nelson to Eai Saddle (Lud Eiver to ,, Graham Creek), (£1 for £1) Neudorf to Dovedale (£100, £1 for£l) Eedwood Valley Eoad and extension ,, Eising Sun Valley (£1 for £1) Eiwaka Bridge (£1 for £1) Eiwaka to Sandy Bay and Marahau... ,, Eiwaka Valley (South Branch) ... ,, Eiwaka Valley (North Branch) ... ,, Sherry Valley to Kaka ... ... ,, Stoney Creek Eoad ... ... ,, Swamp Eoad (Eiwaka) ... ... ,, Tadmor River Bridge ... ... ,, Tadmor River Bridge (Kaka to Sherry ,, Forks Eoad) Tasman Valley extension to Moutere ,, Bluff (£150, £1 for £1) Torrent Bay Track ... ... ,, Valley Hill Eoad (deviation), (£1 for £1) Wai-iti Eiver Bridge (£1 for £1) Bonga Valley to Croixelles ... Marlborough Aaron Creek Eoad (£1 for £1) ... Takaka Anatimo to Wainui ... ... ,, Anatoki to Glover's Flat... ... ,, Awaroa to Totaranui ... ... ,, Beardmore to Chapman (£1 for £1) ... ,, Big Eiver Eoad ... ... ,, Bubu Bridge Eoad ... ... ,, Bubu Springs Eoad (£1 for £1) Craigieburn ... ... ,, East Eoad extension ... ... ,, East Eoad to Upper Takaka (£1 for £1) ,, Edmondson Eoad ... ... ,, Glencoe ... ... ,, Glenroy Track ... ... ,, Hamama (£1 for £1) ... ... ,, Lewis Flat Eiver protective works (£1 ,, for £1) Lindsay Bridge (on account of £1,000), ,, (£1 for £1) Longford Eoad protective works ... ,, Long Plain Eoad extension ... ,, Pohara to Terakohe (£1 for £1) ... ,, Eameka Creek to Canaan Track ... ,, Separation Point to Totaranui Track ,, Takaka-Collingwood Inland Eoad (£1 ,, for £1) Takaka Hill Road (£1 for £1) Terakohe to Wainui (on account of ,, £912) Waingaro Road (£1 for £1) ... ,, Wainui to Awaroa ... ... ,, Waitapu and Totaranui roads ... ,, Waituhi to Barron's Flat ... ,, West Road to Longford extension ... ,, 1,060 375 800 700 100 125 68 50 700 243 100 150 100 100 100 800 450 158 100 50 250 625 50 100 100 100 50 150 100 50 100 225 50 100 50 50 50 59 1174 250 1175 1176! 1177 1178 1179 1180 100 100 100 150 50 100 1181 11821 100 412 1.1831 1184 1185 1186 1187 50 105 150 100 200

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Item. 1917-18. MINISTER OF PUBLIC WORKS -continued, £ £ VOTE No. 108— continued. Roads, etc. — continued. Nelson Boad District —continued. 1188 Allan Creek Bridge ... ... Collingwood 150 1189, Aorere River Bridge protection ... ,, 200 1190; Aorere Road (£1 for £1)... ... „ 100 1191 Berry Creek Bridge (£1 for £1) ... ,, 50 1192 Burton Ale Creek Bridge (£1 for £1) „ 50 1198 Collingwood to Pakawau ... ,, 50 1194 Heyward Hill to Fifteen-mile Creek ,, 100 (£1 for £1) 1195 James Cutting ... ... ,, 75 1196 Kaituna to Ferntown ... ... ,, 100 11971 Maffey Creek and Blackberry Creek ,, 100 Culverts (£1 for £1) 1198 Pakawau Main Road (£1 for £1) ... ,, 200 1199 Pakawau River Bridge and Road (£1 „ 150 for £1) 1200! Wallace's Road ... ... „ 50 ! 1201: Wharariki to Nguroa Station ... ,, 150 1202, Baigent Road (£1 for £1) ... Murchison 100 1203 Braeburn Settlement (Grassy Eoad)... ,, 218 1204 Braeburn Settlement (Tutaki Eoad)... ,, 225 12051 Buller Eiver Footbridge (Murchison) ,, 400 1206| Glenhope to Murchison Main Boad bridges ,, 148 1207 Glenhope to Murchison (The Eocks) ,, 500 1208 Glengarry to Maruia Bridge ... ,, 115 1209 Glenroy to Maruia (£1 for £1) ... „ 50 j 1210 Glenrov Eiver Suspension Bridge ... ,, 500 L211 Mangles Valley (£1 for £1) ... ,, 125 1212; Maruia Valley (£1 for £1) ... „ 65 1213i Matakitaki Eiver protective works ... ,, 75 12I4J Matiri Eiver Suspension Bridge ... „ 100; 1215: Murchison streets ... ... ,, 95 1216 Owen Eiver Suspension Bridge (Thomas's) ,, 100 1217 Pea-soup Creek Track ... ... ,, 75 1218, EaggEoad ... ... „ 75 1219i Survey, acquisition, and legalization ... 250 of roads, drains, protective works, gravel-pits, tramways, horse-pad-docks, &c. 1220 Supervision ... ... ... 200 1221 Miscellaneous works and services, in- ... 100 eluding assistance towards the construction of roads, bridges, tracks, &c. Total—Nelson ... ... ... 22,080 1222 1223 1224: 1225 Blenheim Boad District — 1222; Alfred Creek Bridge ... ... Marlborough 721 1223! Beach Eoad to White's Bay (£1 for £1) „ 50 1224; Blenheim to Nelson Eoad (Havelock to „ 300 Pelorus Bridge), (£2 for £1) 12251 Blenheim to Nelson Eoad (Pelorus ,, 200 Bridge to Eai Saddle), (£2 for £1) 1226 Blenheim to Nelson Eoad (Wairau ,, 500 Bridge to Havelock), (£2 for £1) 1227: Blenheim to Stronvar (£1 for £1) ... ,, 150 1228 Branch Eiver Bridge and approaches ,, 169 (£1 for £1) 1226 1227i 1228

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item. 1917-18. MINISTER OF PUBLIC WORKS— continued. £ £ 1229 1230 1231 1232 1233 1234 1235 1236 1237 1238 1239 1240 1241 1242 1243; 1244! 1245: 12461 1247 VOTE No. 108— continued. Roads, etc. — continued. Blenheim Boad, District, —continued. Kaituna to Tuamarina protective works Marlborough 500 (£1 for £1) Mahakipawa to Havelock (£2 for £1) ,, 150 Onamalutu (£2 for £1) ... ... ,, 50 Opawa River Bridge ... ... ,, 1,057 Opouri Eoad ... ... ,, 100 Pelorus Bridge to Tinline (£1 for £1) ,, 125 Picton to Grove ... ... ,, 450 Eimu Gully (£1 for £1) ... „ 50 Wairau Native Eeserve (£312, £1 for £1) ,, 500 Wairau Eiver Bridge (Ben wicktown), ,, 600 raising approach on left bank (£1 for £1) Wairau River Bridge (Upper), (on ,, 399 account of £2,500) Wairau Valley (Rock Ferry to Langley ,, 100 Dale), (£1 for £1) Wakamarina (£1 for £1)... ... ,, 100 Bulwer to Waitata (£1 for £1) ... Sounds: ]00 Port Gore to Endeavour Inlet ... ,, 47 Te Papakereru Bay to Wharehunga ,, 100 Post-office Deadman Stream Bridge ... Awatere 300 Flags Creek Bridge ... ... ,, 100 Hodder River Bridge (Awatere), (on ,, 200 account of £1,000, £1 for £1) Kekerangu River Bridge... ... ,, 600 Limestone Creek Bridge (Awatere), (on ,, 250 account of £1,200, £1 for £1) Timatis Eailway-station Eoad (£1 for £1) ,, 57 Ward to Kaikoura (Shades deviation) ,, 1,350 Ward to Kaikoura (lire to Clarence), ,, 350 (£1 for £1) Clarence Bridge protective works ... Kaikoura 200 Mororimu Creek Bridge ... ... ,, 300 Section 2, Block XII, Kaitaru S.D. ,, 145 (access) (£1 for £1) Small Grazing-run 96, Hundalee S.D. ,, 11.0 (access) (£1 for £1) Waipapa ... ... ,, 100 Ward to Kaikoura (Clarence to ,, 150 Hapuku) Survey, acquisition, and legalization ... 250 of roads, drains, protective works, gravel-pits, tramways, horse-pad-docks, &c. Supervision ... ... ... 150 Miscellaneous works and services, in- ... 50 eluding assistance towards the construction of roads, bridges, tracks, &c. Total—Blenheim ... ... 11,180 1248 1249 1250 L251 1252 1253! 1254! 1255 1256 1257 1258 1259 1260 1261 1262 1263 1264 1265 1266 Greymouth Boad District — Big Totara Eiver Bridge (£1 for £1)... Buller . 500 Blue Duck Creek deviation and extension ,, 124 Bradshaw Eoad ... ... ,, 100 Buller Eoad (improvements) ... ,, 1,000 Carter's Junction to Cape Foulwind ,, 523 (£498, £1 for £1) Chapman Creek Bridge .,, .,. ,, 500 1267;

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| Item. 191718. MINISTER OF PUBLIC WORKS— continued. t £ VOTE No. 108—continued. ■ Roads, etc. — continued. Greymouth Boad District —continued. 1268 Colligan Eoad (£1 for £1) ... Buller 1269 Horseshoe Bend Creek Bridge ... ,, 1270 Karamea Overflow Bridge (£1 for £1) 1271 Karamea to Tadmor, via Whangaoeka „ Saddle 1272 Little Wanganui Bridge ... ... ,, 1273 Little Wanganui to Falls Creek 1274; Little Wanganui to School ... ,, 1275 Lyell Creek Bridge 1276 Neilson's to Glass-eye Creek (£100, £ I for £1) 1277J No Creek Bridge 1278 Oparara Bridge and approaches (on ,, account of £1,000) 1279: Orowaiti Eiver Bridge ... ... ,, L280 Pakihi 1281 Westport to Greymouth (Coast Eoad), ,, (Charleston to Grey County Boundary), 1282; Adamstown Bridge (£1 for £11 ... Inangahua 1283 Grey Eiver encroachment ... ,, 1284; Inangahua Eiver Eoad ... ... ,, 1285! Inangahua Junction to Eeefton (bridges) ,, 1286; Larry Creek Eoad 1287 Little Grey Bridge (Maimai) 12881 Little Grey Bridge (Mirfin's), (£1 for £1) 1289 : Milligan's Creek Bridge ... 1290, Eeefton to Maimai (bridges and ,, culverts), (£1 for £1) 1291 Eeefton to Maruia (deviation at Eight- ,, mile) 1292: Salmon Creek Bridge (£1 for £1) 1293 CobdenBridge(onaccountof£3,400,£lfor£2) Grej 1294 Deadman Creek Bridge ... ... ,, 1295 Pagan Creek Bridge ... ... ,, 1296 Gorge Creek Bridge (Ten-mile Bluff) 1291 Greymouth to Reefton (culverts), (£1 for £1) 1298 Greymouth to Reefton (Greymouth ,, to Omoto) 1299 Greymouth to Reefton (Seven-mile to ,, Eleven-mile) 1300, Haupiri Settlement to Clarke Rivei-... ,, 1801 Hodgkinson Eoad 1302 Inchbonnie to Taramakau ... ,, 1303 Kotuku to Bell Hill 1304: Payne Gully Eoad 1305 Poerua Settlement Eoad 1306 Eunanga Township (drainage) ... ,, 1307 Westport to Greymouth (Coast Eoad), ,, (Grey County Boundary to Barrytown) L308 Westport to Greymouth (Coast Eoad), ,, (Barrytown to Seven-mile) 1309 Cochrane Eoad ... ... Grey and Murchison 1310 Arahura Eiver protective works (£1 Westland for £1) 1311 Big Wanganui Eiver Bridge ... ,, 1312: Bissett Eoad 1313i Bladier Boad 300 350 175 125 .",00 100 200 400 325 300 250 500 200 604 131 250 151 250 100 400 84 250 150 498 62 2,000 120 500 400 150 200 300 150 100 329 200 350 200 218 325 2,293 150 100 250 50 250

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Item. 1917-18. MINISTER OF PUBLIC WORKS— continued. £ £ 1314 1315 1316 1317 1318 1319 1320 1321 1322 1323 1324 1325 1326 1327 1328 1329 1330 1331 1332 VOTE No. 108—continued. Roads , ETC. — con tinned. Greymouth Boad District —continued. Douglas Road (£2 for £1) ... Westland Evans Creek Bridge ... ... ,, Fisherman's Creek Bridge ... ,, Gimn Road ••• » ••• ,. Karangarua to Cassell Flat ... ,, Kokatahi Bridge Protection ... ,, Kokatahi (Lower) ... ... ,, Kokatahi (Upper) ... ,, Kokatahi .River Bridge ... ... ,, Kokatahi Track bridges... ... ,, Kokatahi Track ... ... ,, Kumara Junction to Kapitea ... ,, Limekiln Road and Ford, Ross (£1 ,, for £1) Little Wanganui protective works (£1 ,, for £1) Little Wanganui Track to Ocean Beach ,, Max Eoad ... ... ,, Mikonui to Bold Head ... ... ,, Papakamai (£1 for £1) ... ... ,, Soutli (Mirror) Creek Bridge (£1 lot £1) Spencer Eoad ... ... ,, Waitaha Eiver Bridge (on account of ,, £2,500) Waitaha Settlement ... ... ,, Waitaha South Beach (£1 for £1) ... Westland Ferry Service ... ... ,, Whitcombe ... ... ,, Zigzag Eoad Deviation, Kumara ... ,, Survey, acquisition, and legalization of ,, roads, drains, protective works, gravel-pits, tramways, horse-pad-docks, &c. Supervision Miscellaneous works and services, including assistance towards the construction of roads, bridges, tracks, &c, 225 800 150 200 100 175 175 75 342 200 270 i 175 100 75 100 175 745 100 75 1333 1334 1.73 500 1335 1336 1337 1338 1339 1340 223 75 50 100 120 100 1341 1342 ! 350 100 Total —Greymouth 23,885 1343 13441 1845 1346 Christchurch Road District — Ashley Eiver Bridge and approaches Ashley and Oxford Glentui Bridge and approaches ... Ashley Lees Valley Settlement Eoad .. ,, Makerikeri Bridge and approaches ,, (£252, £1 for £1) Okuku Eiver Bridge and protective ,. works 963 703 600 1,100 1317; 968 1348 Conway Eiver Bridge and Hundalee Cheviot Eiver Bridge and approaches Leader Eiver Bridge and approach ,, road Greta Creek Bridge (£1 for £1) ... Waipara Hurunui Eiver Bridge (lower), (£1 ,, for £2) 69 1349 1,300 1350 1351 200 950

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item. 1917 18. MINISTER OF PUBLIC WORKS— continued. £ £ 1352 1353 1354 1355 1356 1357 1358 1359 1360 1361 1362 1363 1364 1365 1366 1367 1368 1369 1370 1371 1372 1373 1374 1375 VOTE No. 108— continued. Roads, etc. — continued. Christchurch Boad District —continued. Ada and Henry River Bridges (£1 for £1) Amuri Mason Road deviation (Wandle Bush) ,, Swampy Creek Bridge (£1 for £1) ... ,, Te Koa (£1 for £1) ... Waiau Bridge (£1 for £1) Waiau to Conway ... ... ,, Wandle Stream Bridge (on account of ,, £500) Mounsey Creek Eoad (£1 for £1) ... Oxford Wharfdale ... ... ,, *North Kowai River Bridge ... Kowai Dyer Pass Road deviation ... Heathcote German Bay Wharf Eoad (£1 for £1) Akaroa Menzies Bay to Little Akaloa Saddle ,, (£1 for £2) Cavendish Road (£1 for £1), (Hinds Ashburton Eoad to Cavendish Eailway-station) North Hinds Eoad (£1 for £1) Burke's Drain (Halswell), (£1 for £1) Halswell Selwyn Eiver Bridge (Coalgate), (£1 for £1) Selwyn Fiddler Eoad (£1 for £1) ... Springs Hudson Eoad (£1 for £1) ... ,, Ridge Eoad (£1 for £1) ... Eiver Eoad (Spreydon), (£1 for £1) ... Spreydon Borough Selwyn Lake Eoad (£1 for £1) ... Ellesmere Selwyn Eiver Bridge (Selwyn Eailway- ,, station), (on account of £3,300, £3 for £1) Selwyn Eiver Protective Works (£1 ,, for £1) Beautiful Valley (£1 for £1) ... Geraldine Hae Hae Te Moana Eiver Bridge and ,, approaches (£1 for £1) Kakahu Eiver Bridge (Hilton Crossing) ,, Kakahu Eiver Bridge (Lime-kiln Ford), ,, (£1 for £1) Lynn Stream Bridge (£1 for £2) ... ,, Mount Peel S.D. Blocks I and II (road through), (£1 for £2) Orari Eiver Bridge (subsidy) ... ,, Eangitata (South Branch) Eiver Bridge „ (on account of £1,500, £1 for £1) Waihi Eiver Bridge (Peckham Cross- ,, ing), (on account of £850, £1 for£l) Waihi Bridge (Temuka), (£1 for £1)... Winchester Settlement (road to), (£1 ,, for £1) Winchester Settlement Eoad (£1 for £1) ,, Claremont (£1 for £1) ... ... Levels Clelland Eoad (£1 for £1) Front Limestone Eoad (£1 for £1) ... „ Mackenzie Main Eoad (protective ,, works), (£1 for £1) Main South Eoad (Brooklands), (£1 for £1) Boiling Eidges Eoad (£1 for £1) Collier Eoad (£1 for £1) ... ... Waimate Elder Eoad (£1 for £1) ... O'Connor Eoad (£1 for £1) Paereora Eiver Bridge (Martin's Cross- ,, ing), (£1 for £1) Patterson Eoad (£1 for £1) ... ,, 160 150 125 75 1,100 300 200 200 175 500 200 75 500 100 75 50 1,000 125 150 100 100 75 500 50 1376 1377 300 250 1378 1379 210 300 1380 1381 50 150 1382 1383 1,500 500 1384 250 1385 1386 250 50 1387 1388 1389 1390 1391 150 250 75 100 100 1392 1393 1394 1395 1396 1397 150 150 150 100 50 154 1398 50 * £250 recovered from local authority,

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Item 191718. MINISTER OF PUBLIC WORKS- continued. £ £ VOTE No. 108— continued. Roads, etc. — continued. Christchurch Road District —continued. 1399 Stony Creek Bridge (Allanholme), (£1 Waimate 50 for £1) 1400 Timauuga Settlement ... ... ,, 69 1401 Waimate Settlement roads ... ,, 50 1402! Woolshed Gully Road (£1 for £1) ... ,, 50 1403i Haldon Pastoral Euns (access), (£1 for Mackenzie 1 58 £1) 1404 Jollie River Bridge (£1 for £1) ... ,, 300 1405 Opawa River Bridge ... ... „ 250 1:106' Survey, acquisition, and legalization ... 100 of roads, drains, protective works, gravel-pits, tramways, horse-pad-docks, &c. 1407 Supervision ... ... ... 250 1408: Miscellaneous works and services, in- ... 150 eluding assistance towards the construction of roads, bridges, tracks, Total—Christchurch ... ... 19,554 Dunedin Road District — 1409 Balclutha to Greenfield ... ... Bruce 135 1410 Benhar to Stirling ... ... ,, 50 1411 Cairn Road ... ... ,, 50 1412 Coast Road to Akatore Creek ... ,, 100 1413 Crescent Riverside Road (£1 for£1) ... ,, 50 1414 Crooked Bridge to Coombe Hav (£1 for £1) ,, 50 1415 Hadtield Eoad (£1 for £1) ... ,, 50 1416 Kaitangata to Centre Road (Inch- ,, 75 Clutha) 1417 Kaitangata protective works (on ac- ,, 100 count of £700), (£1 for £1) 1418 Kaitangata to Wangaloa (£1 for £1) ,, 100 1419 Lakeside to Stirling' ... ... ,, 100, 1420 Lovells Flat to Kaitangata ... •„ 50 1421 Milburn to Circle Hill (£1 for £1) ... ,, 50 1422 Milton to Akatore Coast (Grange Hill) ,, 100 1423: Morgan Bridge (£1 for £1) ... ,, 150: 1424; Murray Road (£1 for £1) ... ,, 75 1425 Pukeawa to Shands ... ... ,, 50 1426 Eiverbank Eoad (£1 for £1) ... ,, 75 1427 Saddleback Eoad ... ... ,, 50 1428 Sally Gully Eoad ... ... „ 100 1429 Shagree Creek Bridge ... ... ,, 300 1430 Stirling to Main Road ... ... ,, 100 1431 Stirling to Telegraph Eoad ... ,, 50 1432! Taieri Mouth to Akatore Creek (Morgan ,, 100 Eoad), (£50, £1 for £1) 1433 Toko Bridge (£1 for £1) ... ... ,, ' 600 1434J Waihola to Ouseburn Valley (£50, £1 for£l) ,, 100 1435 Wangaloa to Coombe Hay ... ,, 250 1436 Balclutha to Port Molyneux (£1 for£l) Clutha 320 1437 Barry Eoad ... ... ,, 50 1438 Benney Road ... ... ,, 50 1139 Bryant Eoad ... ... ,, 50 1440 BuVk's Ford to Tuapeka Mouth (£1 for £1) ,, 150 1 141 Catlins S.D. (access to Section 16, Block TI) ,, 100 1442 Catlins S.D., Block VII, access to ,, 200 Sections 7 and 17 (tramway)

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item. 1917 -18. • MINISTER OF PUBLIC WORKS— continued. £ £ 1443 1444 1445 1446 1447J 1448; 1449 1450 145.1 1452 1453 1454 1455J 1456' 1457| 1458 1459 1460 1461 1462 1463 1464 1465 1466 1467 1468 VOTE No. 108— continued. Roads, etc. — continued. Dunedin Road District —continued. Catlins Valley extension ... Clutha Catlins Vallev to Table Hill Clinton to Wyndham (£1 for £1) ... Dan's Peak Road ... ,, Dutton Bridge to Tahora Railway-station ,, Glenomaru Survey District, Block IV, ,, Section 35 (access to) Glenomaru Survey District (access to ,, Sections 65, 67, 68, and 69, Block VIII) Hanuing Road ... ... ,, Hay Road(£l for £1) ... Horan Road ... ... ,, Hunt Road (£1 for £1) ... Joe Saddle Road (£1 for £1) Kelso to Maitland (£1 for £1) Kaler Saddle Eoad (£1 for £1) Koi to Gore Main Eoad ... ... ,, Lakeside ... ... ,, Lucas Eoad (£1 for £1) ... ... ,, Martin Eoad ... ... ,, Mclntyre Eoad (£1 for £1) McKenzie Eoad ... ... ,, Newcastle Eoad ... ... ,, Nugget Burn Eoad ... ... „ Owaka Main Eoad to Cannibal Bav (£1 ,, for £1) Owaka to Purekireki (£1 for £1) ,, Papatowai to Long Beach Creek ... ,, Pomahaka Eiver Bridge (Burk's Ford), „ (on account of £900, £1 for £1) Pullar Eoad ... ... ,, Puaho ... ... ,, Puerua Valley Eoad ... ... ,, Began Eoad .. ... >, Eimu S.D., Block XIV (access) ... Eiverside ... ... ,, Eobertson Eoad (Kelso)... ... ,, Eobertson Eoad (Waiwera) ... ,, Stuart Eoad (£1 for £1) ... Tahakopa to Papatowai ... ... ,, Tahakopa Eiver Bridge (on account ,, of £3,900) Tautuku to Waikawa ... ... ,, Tuapeka Mouth to Glydevale Eoad (£1 ,, for £1) Waikoata ... ... ,, Waikoikoi Cemetery Eoad ... ,, Waipahi Station (£i for £1) Waipahi to Pomahaka Downs (£1 for £1) „ Waipahi to Pukerau (£1 for lOs.) ... „ Waipahi to Tapanui (£1 for £1) ... „ Warepa Survey District (access to ,, Section 28, Block IX) Woodland Survey District (access to ,, Sections 21 and 22, Block X) Woodrow Eoad (£1 for £1) Wright Eoad ... ... „ Arthur's Point Bridge ... ... Lake Oardrona to Pembroke ... ... ,, Hamilton Hill (£1 for £1) Kawarau Falls Bridge (on account of ,, £1,600, £1 for £1) 310 150 98 50 75 100 100 75 50 113 200 50 100 100 50 199 50 50 50 75 150 100 50 436 275 100 1469 1470 1471 1472 1473 1474 1475 1476 1477 1478 1479 50 94 100 100 344 50 100 50 100 100 500 1480 1481 112 200 1482 1483 1484! 14851 I486! 1487 1 1488 50 100 50 50 168 200 50 1489 50 1490: 1491 1492 1493 1494 1195 50 60 1,700 300 1.00 100

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Item. » 1917-18. MINISTER OF PUBLIC WORKS— -continued. v'OTE No. 108— continued. Roads, etc. — continued. Dunedin Road District —continued. Nokomai Saddle to Garston (£1 for £1) Lake Parawa to Nokomai (£1 for £1) Paradise to Routeburn, via Sylvan Lake ,, Pembroke to Albertown Road ... ,, Pembroke to Cromwell (Middle Mount ,, Barker) Road Queen Road (Fairlight) ... ... ,, Queenstown to Arrowtown, via Arthur's Point „ Queenstown to Arrowtown, via Lake Hayes ,, Queenstown to Glenorchy ... ,, Queenstown to Roaring Meg ... „ Skippers Main Road ... ... ,, Speargrass Flat to Arrow Main Road ,, (£1 for £1) Speargrass Flat to Lower Shotover ,, Bridge Dunstan Creek Bridge ... ... Maniototo Higbfield to Ranfurly ... ... „ Ida Valley Station to Maniototo County ,, Boundary Linnburn to Gimmerburn Bridge (£1 ,, for £1) Linnburn Ford to Paerau ... ,, Loganburn Ford Road ... ... ,, Naseby to Palmerston Main Road (£1 ,, for £1) Palmerston to Clyde Main Road (£1 for ,, £1) Eock and Pillar (Switchback) ... ,, Shag Eiver Bridge (£1 for £1) Swinburn Bridge (£1 for £1) ... ,, Strath-Taieri to Maniototo Plain ... ,, Taieri Eiver Bridge (Linnburn Ford), ,, (£1 for £1) Dick's Eoad ... ... Peninsula Gravesend to Gill's Corner ... „ Otakau School Eoad ... ... ,, Pipikaretu ... ... ,, Wickcliffe Bay to Cape Saunders ... ,, St. Mary's Esplanade extension (Ocean City of Beach), (£1 for £1) Dunedin Green Island to Taieri Mouth (£1 for £1) Taieri Matarae to Sutton ... ... ,, Silverstream Bridge (Eiccarton Eoad) ,, Taieri Bridge to Pukekura ... ,, Taieri Land Drainage (subsidy to ,, Commissioners), (on account of £830, £1 for £1) Whare Flat Eoad Beaumont Creek Bridge (£1 lor £2)... Tuapeka Beaumont to Horseshoe Bend ... ,, Beaumont to Eae's Junction (on ac- ,, count of £750) Chalmers Hill Eoad (£1 for £1) ... ,, Clutha County Boundary to Black- ,, cleugh Bridge Crookburn. Bridge to Tuapeka Mouth ,, Edievale to Heriot (£1 for £1) ... ,, Edievale to Moa Flat School ... ,, Endowment Eoad ... ... ,, Harris Eoad (£1 for £1)... ... ,, Hay Eoad ... ... ,, Mill Hill Boad (£1 for £1) £ 1496 1497 1498 1499 1500 50 100 50 150 150 1501 1502 1503 1504 15051 1506' 1507 75 200 200 50 67 100 50 1508 150 1509 15.10 1511 140 100 100 1512 100 1513 1514 1515 100 50 100 1516 200 1517 1518 1519 1520 1521 200 200 200 100 875 1522 1523 1524 1525 1526 1527 75 200 75 100 75 100 1528 1529 1530 1531 1532 600 150 250 300 330 1533 i534 1535 1536 50 50 200 450 1537 1538 50 50 1539 1540 1541 1542 1543 1544 1545 50 100 500 200 50 100 100

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Item. 1917-18. MINISTER OF PUBLIC WORKS— continued. VOTE No. 108— continued. Roads, etc. — continued. Dunedin Boad, District —continued. Pomahaka River Bridge (Pomahaka Tuapeka Siding), (on account of £600, £1 for £1) Roxburgh to Lake Onslow ... ,, Ranklehurn (£1 for £1) ... ... ,, Tuapeka West (£1 for £1) Tapanui to Dalvey Bush ... ,, Waitahuna to Greenfield, via river (£1 ,, for£l) Pomahaka Eiver Bridge (Tweedie's Tuapeka and Ford), (£2 for £3) Clutha Alexandra Bridge repairs (£1 for £1) Vincent Alexandra to Earnscleugh (£1 for £1) ,, Alexandra to Galloway ... ... ,, Alexandra to Tuapeka County ,, Boundary (£1 for £1) Clutha Eiver Bridge (Queensbury) ... ,, Clyde Bridge Approach ... ,, Clyde Bridge repairs (on account of ,, £1,000), (£1 for £1) Clyde to Pembroke (£1 for £1) Cromwell Borough Main Eoad ... ,, Cromwell to Lindis Eiver (Lower Cross- ,, ing), (£1 for£l) Cromwell to Lowburn ... ... ,, Cromwell to Nevis ... ... ,, Cromwell to Wanaka ... ... ,, Hawea to Albertown ... ... ,, Hawea Deer Forest Tracks ... ,, Hawea Eiver Bridge (Maungawera), ,, (on account of £2,100, £110s. for£l) Hawea and Wanaka Lake Tracks ... ,, Lauder S.D., Block III, Sections 49, 50, and 52 (£1 for £1) Lindis Eiver Bridge (on account of £500) ,, Lindis Eiver to Tarras ... Luggate to Hawea ... ... ,, Luggate to Mount Barker ... ,, Mill Creek to head of Hawea Lake ... ,, Omakau to Lauder.(Main Road), (£1 ,, for £1) Omakau to Matakanui Settlement (£1 ,, for £1) Omakau to Matakanui Township ... ,, Ophir to Moa Creek (£1 for £1) Alexandra Eoad (£1 for £1) ... Waihemo Bushy Hill (£1 for £1) ... Dunback to Macraes (£1 for £1) ... ,, Goodwood Settlement ... ... ,, Hughes Eoad (£1 for £1) Macraes to Hyde (£1 for £1) Stoneburn ... ... ,, Waikouaiti (Main Eoad), (£1 for£l)... Waikouaiti Waitati to Waikare (£1 for £2) West Harbour Eoad ... ... ,, Awamoko Eiver Bridge (£1 for £1) ... Waitaki Allday Bay to Waianakarua (£1 for £1) ,, Eastern Eoad (£1 for £1) Kakanui Eiver Bridge (£1 for £1) ... ,, Kurow to Omarama (£l00, £1 for £1) ,, Parson's Creek Eoad (£1 for £1) ... „ Eeef Gully Eoad (£1 for £1) ... ■ ,, £ 100 1546: 1547 1548 1549 1550 1551 100 50 100 100 100 1552 200 1553 15541 1555 1556 475 50 100 75 1557 1558 1559 100 150 250 1560 1561 1562 150 50 150 1563 1564 1565 1566 1567 1568 100 100 200 50 100 100 1569 1570 75 75 1571 1572 1573 1574 1575 1576 150 300 200 100 100 75 1577 75 1578 1579 1580 1581 1582 1.583 1584 1585 1586 1587 1588 1589 1590 1591 1592 1593 1594 1595 1.596 100 75 100 150 227 87 50 84 100 250 275 90 100 100 50 400 200 150 50

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item. 191718. MINISTER OF PUBLIC WORKS— continued. £ £ .597 598 VOTE No. 108—continued. Roads, etc. — continued. Dunedin Boad District —continued. Waianakarua River Bridge ... Waitaki Survey, acquisition, and legalization of roads, drains, gravel-pits, protective works, tramways, horse-pad-docks, Aic. Supervision Miscellaneous works and services, including assistance towards the construction of roads, bridges, tracks, &c. 400 200 200 150 1599 1600 Total—Dunedin 27,814 1601 1602 1603 1604 1605 1606 1607 1608 1609 1610 1611 1612 1613 1614 1615 1616 .1617 1618 1619 1620 1621 1622 1623 1624 1625 1626 1627 1628 1629 1630 1631 1632 1633 1634; Invercargill, Boad District — Ardlussa Settlement (access road) ... Southland Ardlussa to Riversdale (Terrace Road), ,, (£1 for £1) Black Creek Bridge (Oreti), (£1 for £1) Brookdale to Hokonui ... "... ,, Brookdale Road ... ... ,, Brown's Eoad (£1 for £1) ... ,, Brown's to Settlers' Eeserve (£1 for £1) ,, Bulling Eoad ... .... ,, Bushy Park Eoad (Waikaka), (£1 for £1) ,, Caesar Eoad ... ... ,, Calder and Leonard's (£1 for £1) ... ,, Calder to McCurdy's (£1 for £1) Cameron's to Woodstock ... ,, Campbell Hundred, Block IX, Sec- ,, tion 63 (access to) Campbelltown, Block X, Sections 6 to 9 ,, Campbelltown Eeserve ... ... ,, Cemetery Eoad (Bluff) ... ... ,, Cemetery Eoad (Wvndham), (£1 for £1) ,, Channel'Eoad (£1 for £1) Clearwater Eoad ... ... ,, Cochrane Eoad (Isla Bank), (£1 for £1) ,, Craig Eoad (Mokoreta) ... ... ,, Crawford deviation (£l for £1) ... ,, Cross Eoad (Spar Bush), (£1 for £1)... ,, i Cross Eoad (Titipua) (£2 for £1) ... ,, ) Curran Eoad, Block X, Waikawsi ... ,, Diana Eoad ... ... ,, I Dry Eidge Eoad (£1 for £1) i Duck Creek Eoad ... ... ,, I Dunn Eoad (Otatara), (£1 for £1) ... East Eoad (£1 for £1) ... ! Fairlight to Eobert Creek ... ,, I Flora Eoad(MakarewaTownship) ... ,, Forest Hill Hundred (Section 169), ,, (£1 for£I) i Forest Hill Hundred (Section 257 to ,, Springhills Siding) I Forest Hill (Sections 359 to 387) ... Forest Hill Hundred (Block VI, Sec- ,, . tion 302), (north of) I' Forest Plantation Eoad ... ' ... ,, I Fortification Main Eoad... ... ,, ) Fortifications to Quarry Hills (£100, ,, £1 for £1) Gardiner to Kaiwera (£1 for £1) ... ,, 200 50 100 150 100 50 100 50 100 150 100 100 50 50 250 150 200 100 50 300 50 50 72 50 150 100 50 250 too 50 197 150 200 100 50 100 100 loo 60 150 50 1635 1636 1637 1638 1639 1640 1641 /

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[tern. 1917 18. MINISTER OF PUBLIC WORKS— continued. £ £ 1642 1643 1644 1645 1646 1647 1648 1649 1650 1651 1652 1653 1654 1655 1656 1657 1658 1659 1660 1661 1662 1663 1664 1665 1666 1667 1668 1669 1670 1671 1672 1673 1674 1675 1676 1677 1678 1679 1680 VOTE No. 108—continued. Roads, etc. — continued. Invercargill Boad District —continued. Girdler Eoad ... ... Southland Glenary Bridge (£1 for £1) Green Point Eoad (£1 for £1) Gregory Eoad (£1 for £1) ... ,, Hanning Eoad (£1 for £1) ... ,, Helena Eoad ... ... ,, Hobbs Eoad ... ... ,, Hodgson Eoad (Kapuka) ... ,, Holtz Eoad (£1 for £1) ... Horton Eoad (£1 for £1)... Howell Eoad (£18, £2 for £1) Invercargill, Block XII, Sections 8 ,, and 9 (west of) Jewitt Eoad ... ... „ Kapuka to Gorge (£100, £1 for £1) ... Kennington to Waimatua ... ,, Kidd Eoad ... ... ,, Knowsley Park Eoad ... ... ,, Lumsden to Kingston (Lumsden to ,, Lowther), (£58, £2 for £1) Lawson Eoad ... ... ,, Leggett Eoad ... ... „ Lochiel Channel (£150, £1 for £1) ... Longridge North (£1 for £1) ... ,, Longridge to Ardlussa (£1 for £1) ... ,, McAlister Eoad (Sandstone Eidge), ,, (£1 for £1) McCrostie Eoad (Spar Bush) ... ,, McGaw and York's Eoad ... ,, McKenzie Eoad (Lochiel), (£1 for £1) Mataura Eiver Bridge (£3 for £1) ... McManus Eoad McMillan Eoad (£2 for £1) McDowell Eoad McEwing and Bouse Eoad ... ,, McLaughlin Eoad (Awarua Siding)... ,, McDonald Eoad (Hokonui) ... ,, McGregor Eoad (Winton) ... ,, Morton Mains to Gorge (£1 for £1)... Morton Mains to Kamahi (£1 for £1)... Morton Mains to Waituna School ... ,, New Eiver, Block VI (east of Sec- ,, tions 28, 30, and 31) Oreti, Block II, (east of Section 65)... ,, Oreti, Block II, Section 14 ... ,, Oreti Eiver Bridge, South Hillend (on ,, account of £2,150, £1 for £1) Orion Eoad (£1 for £1) ... Osmond Eoad ... ... ,, Otara, Block VI, Sections 43 to 45 ... Otara to Tokonui and other roads ... ,, Oteramika, Block I, Sections 69 to 80 ,, Oteramika, Block III, south of Section 29 ,, Oteramika, Section 60, Block III; ,, Section 11, Block V Oteramika, Block III, Sections 64 to 68 ,, Oteramika, Block V, north of Sections 30 and 31 Oteramika, Block VII, Section 56 ,, (access to) Otapiri Gorge Eoad (£1 for £1) 100 400 125 100 50 150 100 150 75 50 218 150 200 112 150 100 225 180 650 100 156 125 50 100 50 50 50 600 100 50 80 100 300 100 150 50 100 150 200 1681 1682 1683 150 150 500 1684 1685 1686 1687 1688 1689 1690 200 55 75 184 75 75 200 1691 1692 50 100 1693 50 1694

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item. 1917 18. MINISTER OF PUBLIC WORKS— continued. VOTE No. 108—continued. Roads, etc. — continued. Invercargill Boad District, —continued. Oughton Road (£1 for £1) ... Southland Parson Road (Mangara) ... ... ,, Pascoe Road Progress Valley to Waikawa Estuary ,, Progress Valley ... ... ,, Story Road (Venlaw) ... ... ,, Souter's to Riinu Road (£1 for £1) ... ,, Sprigg Road ... ... ,, Short Road (West Plains), (£1 for £1) Spar Bush to Waimatuku (£1 for £1) ,, Springhills School to Grove Bush (£1 ,, for £l) Stanley to Greenhills ... ... • ,, Stewart Road (Otakau) ... .. ,, Titipua ... ... ,, Titipua to Brydone Road ... ,, i Toetoes, Block X, Sections 14, 3, and 4 ,, Tokonui to Haldane (on account of £600) ,, Trotter Road (£1 for £1)... i Tussock Creek Eoad ... ... ,, Waiarikiki Settlement Eoad ... ,, i Waikaka to Waikaia (£1 for £1) ... ,, i Waikawa, Block I, Sections 48 and 50 ,, (£1 for £1) Waikiwi Eiver protective works, &c. „ (on account of £3,000) i Waimea Valley (£1 for £1) ... ,, i Waituna Eoad ... ... ,, I Waituna Lagoon Traffic Bridge (£1 for £1) ,, Wilson Crossing (£1 for £1) ... ,, ! Winsloe's to Kaiwera (£1 for £1) ... ,, : Wyndham to Clinton (Mokoreta to ,, Clinton) Wyndham Valley Main Eoad (£1 for £2) i Wilson and McCarthy Eoad ... ,, I Winton Creek Channel (Upper), (£1 ,, for £1) Woodslea Downs Eoad (£1 for £1) ... ,, 1 Maher Eoad (Seaward Bush) ... S. Invercargill Borough I Moulson Eoad (£1 for £1) I Waihopai Eiver and Eoad improve- ,, ment (£122, £1 for £1) Boat Landing (Popotiku) ... Stewart Island i Bragg Eoad ... ... ... ,, 1 Brooklands to Braggs ... ... ,, : Dawson to Popotiku ... ... ,, i Half-moon Bay to Thule ... ,, i Harrold Eoad ... ... ,, Leask to Traill's ... ... ,, I Lee Bay to Maori Beach ... ,, i Lonnekers to Eingaringa ... ,, I Alton No. 3 Block roads... ... Wallace Alton, Block III, Sections 24 to 9 ... I Alton No. 4 Block roads... ... ,, I Alton Burn Bridge (£1 for £1) Aparima Loan, Block No. 1 (access to) ,, i Aparima, Block III, Section 26 (£1 ,, for £1) i Aparima, Block VII, Section 9 (access ,, to), (£1 for £1) Aparima, Block VII, Section 22 (£1 for £1) £ £ 1695 1696 1697 1698 1699 1700 1701 1702 1703 1704 1705 100 50 150 150 100 50 50 50 50 100 200 1706 1707 1708 1709 1710 1711 1712 1713 1714 1715 1716 140 150 100 50 400 250 50 150 250 100 100 1717 1,000 1718 1719 1720 1721 1722 1723 100 150 75 200 50 200 1724 1725 1726 139 100 100 1727 1728 100 150 1729 1730 50 371 1731 1732 1733 1734 1735 1736 1737 1738 1739 1740 1741 1742 1743 1744 1745 100 100 100 100 50 50 50 50 50 594 200 200 150 140 100 1746 150 1747 75

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item. 1917-18. MINISTER OF PUBLIC WORKS— continued. VOTE No. 108 continued. Roads, etc. — continued. Invercargill Boad District —continued. Aparima, Block VII, Sections 24a, 25 Wallace (£1 for £1) Armstrong and Guise Roads (£1 for £1) ,, Barron and Christie Road (£1 for £1) ,, Beaumont Settlement (£1 for £1) ... ,, Beck Road, Waicolo (£1 for £1) Beer and MoAuley Eoad (£1 for £1)... Belmont to Blackmount... ... ,, Benzie Eoad (£1 for £1)... Best Eoad (Eingwav), (£1 for £1) ... ,, Clark Eoad (£1 for £1) ... Clent Eoad (£1 for £1) ... Clifden to Lake Manapouri (Otahu), ,, (£1 for £1) Clifden to Lillburn (£1 for £1) Crook Eoad (£50, £1 for £1) Cunningham Eoad (£1 for £l) ... ,, Decopsky Eoad ... ... ,, Donkin and Burns Eoad... .. ,, Eastern Bush to Blackmount (£1 for £1) ,, Etal Stream Bridge (£1 for £1) Grassy Creek Bridge and Approach ,, Eoad (£2 for £1) Gully Eoad, Block XIV, Waiau S.D. Gummie Bush to Ermedale (£1 for £1) ,, Hewitt and Battersby Eoad (£1 for £1) Jacob Eiver Bridge, near Dunrobin ,, Station Jacob Eiver No. 1 Block (access) ... ,, Jenkin Eoad (Alton) ... ... ,, Kidd Eoad (Avondale), (£1 for £1) ... King and Birch Eoad ... ... ,, Lindsay Calcium Eoad (£1 for £1) ... ,, Longwood, Block XVI, Section 7, to ,, Block XV, Section 16 (£1 for £1) Longwood, Block XVIII, Section 16 ,, Longwood, Blocks XVIII and XIX, Sections 9 to 14 and 6 to 17 Merrivale to Te Tua ... ... ,, Moffett and Forbes Eoad ... ,, Mossburn to Te Anau (direct) ... ,, Nicholson Eoad ... ... ,, Nightcaps to Wairio (£75, £1 for £1) Ogilvie Eoad (£1 for £1) Ohai Stream Eoad (£1 for £1) Oreti Eiver Protective Works, near ,, Josephville (£1 for £1) Otautau Eiver protective works (£1 for £1) ,, Pear's Boundary to Jacob Eiver ... ,, Eiverton to Orepuki, via Eoundhill ,, (on account of £1,000) Eiverton to Orepuki (Tope Grant to ,, Tihaka) Eoby Eoad ... ... ,, Euahine to Beach ... ... ,, Scott's Gap (Lower), (£1 for £1) ... ,, Sinclair Bridge to Lainbie Corner ,, (£1 for £1) South Hillend Eoad ... ... ,, Sutherland Eoad (£1 for £1) ... ,, Taunoa Block Eoad ... ... ,, Wairio to Birch wood (£1 for £1) ... ,, Watson Eoa 1, Block I, Jacob Eiver Hundred ,, £ 100 1748 1749 1750 1751 1752 1753 1754 1755 1756 1757 1758 1759 50 50 50 50 50 93 50 50 50 50 100 1760 1761 1762 1763 1764 1765 1766 1767 50 150 50 169 100 150 300 227 1768 1769 1770 1771 200 50 50 250 1772 1773 1774 1775 1776 1777 216 50 50 50 50 50 1778 1779 50 225 1780 1781 1782 1783 1784 1785 1786 1787 100 50 700 80 125 50 150 150 1788 1789 1790 150 50 750 1791 100 1792 1793 1794 1795 75 150 110 50 1796 1797 1798 1799 1800 50 57 101 100 75

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I 1917-18. Item. MINISTER OF PUBLIC WORKS— continued. £ £ 1801 1802 1803 VOTE No. 108— continued. Roads, etc. — continued. Invercargill Boad District —continued. .! Whitestone Bridge ... ... Wallace ! Woodlaw Road ... ... ,, I Survey, acquisition, and legalization of roads, drains, gravel-pits, protective works, tramways, horse-paddocks, &c. 200 50 75 1804 1805 : Supervision ... ... ... i Miscellaneous works and services, including assistance towards the construction of roads, bridges, tracks, &c. 150 300 Total—Invercargill 27,501 1806 .807 General — i Advertising tenders, and other initial expenses not fairly chargeable to a specific item Compensation for injuries to employees while in discharge of their duties, and contingent expenses in connection with same Engineering surveys Roadmen's huts, store-rooms, &c. Subsidy towards the construction of roads and bridges, under section 276 of the Native Land Act, 1909 (£1 for £1) Towards the prevention and restoration of flood damages generally Work for unemployed 400 1,000 .808 809 .810 400 500 2,000 60,000 .811 .812 1,000 Total—General... 65,300 Total required for current year —Vote No. 108 496,687 358,505 1 2 3 4 VOTE No. 109. Back-blocks Roads, etc. — Whangarei Boad District —• Auckland Special Settlement to Hokianga Mangakahia Auckland Special Settlement to Wai- ,, mamaku (£l for £1) Church Road ... ... ,, Horeke to Taheke, via Section I, Block ., XII, Mangamuka Survey District Huehue to Mangakahia ... ... ,, Irvine Road ... ... ,, Kaikohe to Huehue .. ... ,, Kaimaro ... ... ,, Katui to Marlborough Settlement ... ,, Katui to Waipoua ... ... ,, Kobe to Awaiti ... ... ,, Koutu ... ... ,, 113 113 100 75 5 6 7 8 9 10 II 12 173 100 282 300 84 350 42 100

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[tern. 1917-18. MINISTER OF PUBLIC WORKS— continued. £ 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 VOTE No. 109. Back-blocks Roads, etc. — continued. Whangarei Boad District —continued. Mohuiti to Rangiahua ... ... Hokianga Oue to Wharekawa Point ... ,, Pakotai ... ... ,, Parker Road ... ... ,, Puhata Valley ... ... ,, Roderick Road ... ... ,, Tarawhati Station to Main Mangonui ,, Bluff Road Tutamoe ... ... ,, Tutamoe S.D.,Block V (access to Section 10) ,, Underwood Road ... ... ,, Waima to Mangatu ... ... ,, Waipoua S.D., Section 26, Block XI (access) ,, Waoku Survey District, Block XVI ,, (access to Sections 16 and 22) Whangape to Mangonuiowae, via ,, Rotokakahi Block Whangape Track ... ... „ Whirinaki to Taipa ... ... ,, Helena Bay to Whangaruru ... Bay of Islands Parahaki to Eussell ... ... ,, Opanake Block (access road) ... Hobson Taita to Tutamoe ... . . ,, Houto to Griffen's ... ... Whangarei Maungaturoto to Cove, via Eowsell's ,, Pukeatua ... ... ,, Matawherohia to Kaeo ... ... Whangaroa Blue Gorge ... ... ... Mangonui Fairburn to Otukai ... . ... ,, Herekino to Kaitaia ... ... ,, Kangahi Bridge ... ... ,, Mangamuka to Victoria Valley ... ,, Mangataniwha Block VI (access) ... ,, Maungataniwha Parish (access to Sec- ,, tion 137) Oruru to Fern Flat Otukai to Mangatete, via Creamery ,, Eeserve Otukai No. 2 Bridge ... ... ,, Takahue S.D., Block VI (access to ,, Sections 13, 15, and 16) Waiharara to Horahora... ... ,, Supervision Miscellaneous works and services, including assistance towards the construction of roads, bridges, tracks, &c. 100 92 300 50 50 76 120 169 50 75 200 352 148 125 50 200 100 100 100 100 100 70 50 75 75 75 73 58 429 50 100 50 100 200 50 100 100 250 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 Total—Whangarei 6,394 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 Auckland Boad District — Campbell and Bowmar-Eoad ... Otamatea Maungaturoto to Cove Eoad, via Eowsell's ,, Lower Matakana Eoad (through Sec- Eodney tions 25, 26, 27, 38, and 39) Blind Bay Eoad ... ... Great Barrier Harataonga to Port Fitzroy ... ,, Okiwi to Maori Bay ... ,, Port Fitzroy wharf (approach road) ,, Tryphena Harbour Road ,, Wliaugapara to Kaitoke Beach ,, 150 151 100 47 325 100 150 250 100

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Item. 1917-18. MINISTER OF PUBLIC WORKS continued. £ 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77' 78 79 80 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 90 91 VOTE No. 109— continued. Back-blocks Roads, etc — continued. Auckland Boad District —continued. Awhitu Central to Manukau Heads... Franklin Graham's Beach to Palmer's ... ,, Graham's Beach to Palmer's (Peter- ,, son's Road) Hunua Parish, Sections 70,13,12, and „ 43 (access to) Otau Road (Moumoukai Valley) ... ,, Paparimu to Maungatawhiri ... ,, Wairoa River to Otau ... ... Manukau Koheroa Parish (access to Section 55) Waikato Bridson's to O'Sullivan's ... Coromandel Cabbage Bay to Cape Colville ... ,, Coromandel to Cabbage Bay (Coast ,, Eoad) Coromandel to Cabbage Bay (Inland ,, Eoad) Gumtown to Whenuakite ... ,, Kapowai Eiver Bridge (on account)... ,, Manaia Creek Bridge ... ... ,, Manaia Creek Diversion... ... ,, Mill Creek to Gumtown... ... ,, Oteao Stream Bridge (on account) ... ,, Whenuakite Stream Bridge ... ,, Kaihere ... ... Ohinemuri Mangawhara ... ... ,, Torehapa ... ... „ Waiti Aotea to Eaglan ... ... Eaglan Cogswell Eoad ... ... ,, Klondyke ... ... ,, Kauri to Harapepe ... ... ,, Pakihi to Okete ... ... ,, Pehehau to Kaniwhaniwha ... ,, Euapuke to Aotea ... ... ,, Euapuke Mountain Eoad ... ,, Takapaunui to Euapuke Mountain ,, Eoad Turner's Junction to West Coast ,, (through Block VI, Awaroa) Awaroa to Waiharakeke ... Kawhia Awaroa-W aiharakeke Eoad to Taunia- ,, tatotara Block Kaimango ... ... ... ,, Katekako Stream Bridge ... ,, Kauri ... ... ... ,, Kawaroa Stream Bridge ... ... ,, Kihi Kiwi Bay to Whakapirau ... ,, Mangakino ... ... ,, Mahoe ... ... ,, Oteke Eiver Bridge to Te Maika Eoad ,, via sections 28, 29, &c, Block 1, Kawhia South Pahoka Bridge ... ... ,, Taumatatotara East ... ... ,, Taumatatotara West ... ... „ Te Maika Wharauroa ... ... ,, Hauturu ... ... ... Waitomo Hauturu-Otorohanga Eoad to Ngutu- ,, nui Stream t 175 100 100 100 90 96 275 350 100 100 300 200 200 150 700 100 200 100 250 200 150 75 50 200 100 211 100 162 50 75 300 249 261 400 500 204 89 250 156 133 50 100 78 53 100 500 700 209 111 123 400 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 100 101 102 103 104 105 106 107 108 109 110

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item. 191718. MINISTER OF PUBLIC WORKS— continued. £ £ Ill 112 113 114 115 116 117 118 119 120 121 VOTE No. 109— continued. Back-blocks Roads, etc. — continued, Auckland, Boad District —continued. Otorohanga to Haiigatiki-Waifcomo Eoad Waitomo Tapuae .... ... ,, Waitaheke Bridge ... ... „ Whakariwhaka Bridge ... ... ,, Maihihi Bridge (Eangitoto No. 2) ... West Taupo Mangamahoe (bridges) ... ... ,, Tautari to Moanavale Settlement ... ,, Waipari Stream Bridge No. 1 .. ,, Waipari Stream Bridge No. 2 ... ,, Supervision Miscellaneous works and services, including assistance towards the construction of roads, bridges, tracks, &c. 175 117 350 84 50 200 350 165 141 250 100 Total—Auckland 13,380 122 123 124 125 126 127 128 129 130 131 132 133 134 Tauranga Boad District — Apata Parish (access to Sections 224 Tauranga and 225) Callery's Eoad ... ... ,, Faulkner Eoad ... ... ,, Kaituna ... ... ,, Komete ... ... ,, Korano ... ... ,, Mangatoi ... ... ,, Mangatoi Stream Bridge ... ,, Ngamuawahine ... ... ,, Omanawa ... ... ,, Otawa No.l ... .. ,, Otawa No. 2 ... ... ,, Eaparapahoe Stream Bridge (Otawa ,, No. 2) Waihi Swamp Eoad ... ... ,, Hannon Eoad ... ... Eotorua Kaikokopu to Taheke ... ... ,, Whirinaki Valley Eoad ... ... ,, Hewitt Eoad ... ... Whakatane Euatahuna to Waikaremoana ... ,, Te Papa Bush Eoad ... ... East Taupo Supervision Miscellaneous works and services, including assistance towards the construction of roads, bridges, tracks, &c. 100 206 50 100 70 100 554 200 350 100 100 113 1,267 135 136 137 138 139 140 141 142 143 990 150 136 100 200 193 50 50 100 Total—Tauranga 5,279 144 145 146 147 148 Gisborne Boad District — Armstrong Eoad ... ... Waikohu Mutuera ... ... ,, Awanui to East Cape ... ... Waiapu Hicks Bay to Whangaparaoa ... ,, Hikurangi S.D. through Section 2, ,, Block XV 150 50 ■ 100 80 350 149 150 151 152 153 Kopuapounamu Valley ... ... ,, Mata Eiver to Waitahaia (£150, £1 for £1) Whangaparaoa Valley ... ... ,, Moody Eoad ... ... Opotiki Omaukoro ... ... ,, 100 300 125 50 212

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tern. 191718. MINISTEE OF PUBLIC WORKS— continued. £ £ 154 155 156 157 158 159 160 161 162 163 164 165 166 167 168 169 170 171 172 173 VOTE No. 109— continued, Back-blocks Eoads, etc. — continued, Gisborne Boad District —continued. Opato ... ... Opotiki 1,840 Opotiki to Matawai, via Oponae ... ,, 150 Pakihi ... ... ,, 209 Pakihi Stock Reserve and river protection ,, 100 Petipeti ... ,, 284 Porangahau Saddle to Main Motu Road ,, 200 Tahora Block roads ... ... ,, 250 Tutaetoko Track (on account of £1,200) ,, 350 Waiaua Block (access) ... ... ,. 600 Waioeka River Bridge protective works ., 275 Waiapu Inland ... ... Cook ' 175 Waimatato Waiapu Inland Road (Todd's) ., 150 Waikura Stream Bridge... ... ,, 100 Erepeti ... ... Wairoa 388 Kokahu ... ... „ 275 Makaretu to Mangaone ... ... ,, 800 Mangapoike Valley ... ... „ 1,422 Mangarewarewa ... ... ,, 500 Matukuhia ... ... i, 746 Opoiti Survey District, Section 2c, ,, 188 Block VII (access) Euakituri Valley (Mills to Erepeti ,, 94 Bridge) Euakituri Valley (Mills to Nolan's) ,, 337 Waikaremoana Accommodation House ,, 200 to Rotorua Waikaremoana Survey District (access ,, 250 to Run 79) Supervision ... ... ... 100 Miscellaneous works and services, in- ... 100 eluding assistance towards the construction of roads, bridges, tracks, &c. 174 175 176 177 178 179 Total—Gisborne ... ... 11,100 1H0 181 182 183 184 185 186 187 188 189 190 191 192 193 194 195 196 197 Taumarunui Boad, District — Kakahi Road bridges ... ... Ohura 150 Kopuha ... ... ,, 200 Kururau ... ... ,, 776 Mahuri ... ... ,, 68 Ohura River Bridge (Roto Road) ... ,, 1 ,575 Opatu ... ... ,, 150 Otunui ... ... ,, 307 Rimu ... ■■■ ,, 78 Ryan Road ... ... ,, 239 Tokirima ... ... ,, 408 Tokirima Road to Wanganui River ... ,, 95 Waikaka Road Bridge ... ... ,, 50 Mangaiti ... ... Waitomo 411 Mangateka Stream Bridge ... ,, 48 Mapara (Mangaiti Block) ... „ 489 Mapara South ... ... ,, 300 Mapiu (on account of £500) ... ,, 200 Puputaha Stream Eoad (on account ,, 200 of £500, £1 for £1) Eamaroa ... ... ,, 791 Eamaroa Stream Bridge ... ,, 50 Makokomiko ... ... Kaitieke f 296 Tunakotekote ... .., „ 50 198 199 200 201

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item. 191718. i MINISTER OF PUBLIC WORKS— continued. £ £ 202 203 VOTE No. 109— continued. Back-blocks Eoads, etc. — continued. Taumarunui Boad District —continued. Wanganui Eiver Eoad (left bank), (Te Kaitieke Maire to Kokakonui) Wanganui Eiver Eoad (left bank), ,, (Matapuna to Hikimutu Junction) Supervision Miscellaneous works and services, including assistance towards the construction of roads, bridges, tracks, &c. 317 235 204 205 100 200 Totals—Taumarunui 7,783 206 207 208 209 2.1.0 211 212 213 214 215 216 217 218 219 220 221 222 223 Stratford Boad District — Awakino Valley (Lower), (£150, £1 for£l) Awakino Awakino Valley (Upper)... ... ,, Kiritehere ... ... ,, Kiritehere to Marakopa (Beach Eoad) ,, Kiritehere Stream Bridge ... ,, Mangaohae Eiver Bridge (Pomorangi Eoad) ,, Mangaotaki Valley (Upper) ... ,, Pomorangi Te Marama ... ... ,, Whakahau ... ... ,, Marakopa Valley ... ... Kawhia Kiore to Matau ... ... Clifton Kotare Stream Bridge and approaches ,, Mangatuna Eoad Bridges ... ,, Makino ... ... .. ,, Mangaowata Stream Bridge (Eerekino ,, Eoad) Moki Tongaporutu Eiver Bridge (Mangatoro „ Eoad), (on account of £1,800) Tongaporutu to Mangaroa (west of ,, Burn Saddle) Mangare ... ... Clifton and Whangamomona Mangaowata ... Whangamomona Whangamomona to Wanganui River ,, Parinui ... ... ... „ Carrington Eoad ... ... Tarauaki Moeawatea Eidge ... ... Eltham Moeawatea Eiver Bridge (Moeawatea ,, Valley Eoad) Whenuakura Valley ... ... ,, Mangapohue... ... ... Waitomo Supervision Miscellaneous works and services, including assistance towards the construction of roads, bridges, tracks, &c. 1,915 1,021 1,422 200 200 500 201 50 246 200 101 172 193 150 166 203 175 740 224 374 225 1,692 226 227 228 229 230 231 93 397 100 500 325 300 232 233 234 235 323 350 100 100 Total—Stratford T2.509

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Item. 1917-18. MINISTER OF PUBLIC WORKS— continued. £ 236 237 238 239 240 241 242 243 244 245 246 247 248 249 250 251 VOTE No. 109— continued. Back-blocks Roads, etc. — Wanganui Boad District — Anderson Road ... ... Wanganui Owhakura ... ... ,, Pitangi Stream Bridge (Wanganui ,, River Road) Wanganui River Road (left bank), ,, (Matahiwi to Cpokongaro) Cross Road (Upper) ... ... Waimarino Makino ... ... ,, Manganui S.D., Block XIV, Section 17 (access), (on account of £150) Mangatiti East ... ... ,, Otautu ... ... ,, Pehu ... ... ,, Baetihi to Ohura ... ... ,, Kokakoriki ... ... Kaitieke Makaretu ... ... ,, Mangaohutu Stream Bridge (Mangao- ,, hutu Road) Mangaohutu ... ... ,, Mangaorakei Stream Bridge (Koka- ,, koriki Eoad) Patua ... ... ,, Eetaruke Valley ... ... ,, Eetaruke Valley (Upper) ... ,, Wanganui Eiver Eoad (left bank), ,, (Kokakoriki to Mangaohutu) Eherua ... Kaitieke & Waimarino Maungaroa ... ,, Mataiponga ... ... Eangitikei Puao to Kaimanuka ... ... Patea Puraroto ... ... ,, Taunoka ... ... Waitotara Tawapiko ... ... ,, Supervision Miscellaneous works and services, including assistance towards the construction of roads, bridges, tracks, &c. 150 118 750 275 100 495 75 415 100 100 580 425 45 100 250 200 252 253 254 255 100 249 86 250 256 257 258 259 260 261 262 263 264 352 193 100 485 550 175 120 100 100 Total—Wanganui 7,038 165 !66 !67 168 !69 170 171 172 178 174 175 176 177 !7K 179 180 Wellington Boad District — Conspicuous Eoad ... ... Kiwitea Titirangi ... ... ,, Umutoi North ... ... ,, Harkness Eoad ... ... Pohangina Umutoi ... ... ,, Birch Eoad ... ... Weber Cross Eoad (Hall Block) ... Pahiatua Mangapuaka (north of Tunakore Bridge) Dannevirke Mangatawainui Bridge ... ... ,, Maunga (extension towards Otanga)... ,, Makoura ... ... Akitio Marainanga Stream Bridge . . ,, Eange Eoad (south) ... ... ,, Waiowaka ... ... ,, Waiowaka Eoad bridges... .. ,, Pakowai (Anderson's, towards Tinui Castlepoint to Pakowai Eoad) Tinui to Pakowai ... ... ,, 127 350 189 475 350 150 479 749 416 179 69 339 230 400 192 350 181 1,053

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Item. 191718. MINISTEE OF PUBLIC WORKS— continued. £ £ 282 283 284 285 VOTE No. 109— continued. Back-blocks Roads, etc. — continued. Wellington Boad District —continued. Waikaraka ... ... Masterton Waitohu extension ... ... Horowhenua Supervision Miscellaneous works and services, including assistance towards the construction of roads, bridges, tracks, 150 200 100 100 Total—Wellington 6,647 286 287 288 289 290 291 292 293 294 295 296 297 298 299 300 301 302 303 304 305 306 307 308 309 310 311 312 313 314 315 316 317 318 319 320 321 322 323 324 325 326 327 328 329 330 331 Nelson Boad District — Baton Valley. ... ... Waimea Franklyn Road ... ... ,, Goat Creek (Graham Eiver) ... ,, Graham Valley (right-hand branch).. ,, Kokako ... ... ,, Motueka Eiver Bridge (on account of £1,500) ,, Tadmor Bridge (Glenrae) ... ,, Wairoa Forks Block ... ... ,, Wairoa Eiver Eoad (left branch) ... ,, Blenheim to Hope Junction, via Top- Waimea and house (Tophouse to Hope Junction Murchison section) Anatakapau to Totaranui ... Takaka Anatoki ... ... ,, Anatoki Eiver Bridge ... ... ',, Awaiti to Marahau ... ... ,, Awaiti to Tonga Quarry ... ... ,, Awaroa to Big Eiver ... ... ,, Awaroa to Manson's ... ... ,, Barron Flat to Flora Eiver ... ,, Camp Creek to Awaroa ... ... ,, Falls Eiver to Torrent Bay ... ,, Go-ahead Creek Bridge ... ,, Handcock's to Anatakapau ... ,, Handcock's to Wainui ... ... ,, Kill Devil Track Wainui Falls ... ... ,, Collingwood to Heaphy .. ... Collingwood Jeffrie's Creek Bridge ... ... :,, Kohaihai to Heaphy ... ... ,, Koteriteri ... ... ,, Mangarakau ... ... ,, Mangarakau Bridge ... ... „ Otere Valley ... ... ,, Puponga Township to Port ... ,, Walker Eoad (Ferntown) ... -. ,, Blackwater Block ... ... Murchison Buller Eiver Bridge ... ... ,, Coffee Creek Bridge ... ... ,, Flat Creek Glencairn to Maruia North Block ... ,, Glengarry ... ...... ,, Glenroy to Eappahannock ... ,, Gowan Eiver ... ... ,, Holman to Flower Track ... ,, Lester Bank deviation ... ... ,, Maruia Bridge to Caslani's ..... „■•"•' Maruia Eiver Bridge (Mairs),. (on ac-- ' „ - ■••' count of £700) •.„' . ..' ....... .... ... . Maruia Eiver Bridge (Maruia North ,, Block Eoad) 250 150 150 73 75 250 700 123 174 1,475 100 100 740 141 100 150 100 200 75 200 150 50 100 100 75 100 •- 250 350 100 100 900 200 200 50 236 175 200 200 244 175 150 1,200 • 250 53 :•..■ 200-: .. ;,v:..450 66 332

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Item. MINISTEE OF PUBLIC WORKS—continued. 1917 •18. [ VOTE No. 109— continued. Back-blocks Roads, etc. — continued. Nelson Road District —continued. Maruia Eiver Bridge to Eoberts ... Murchison Maruia Eiver Bridge approaches ... ,, Maruia South ... ... ,, Matakitaki Eiver (west bank) ... ,, Matakitaki Valley ... ... ,, Matiri Eiver (eastbank) ... ... ,, ! Matiri Eiver (west bank) ... ,, *Matiri Eiver Bridge (Longford to ,, Fern Flat Eoad) Newman Eoad ... ... ,, Nuggety Creek ... ... ,, Nuggety Creek Stock-bridge ... ,, O'Donnell Eoad ... ... „ Owen Junction to Murchison Creek... ,, Paenga Post-office to Shenandoah Junction ,, Pea Soup Creek to Paenga Post-office ,, Eahu to Maruia Hot Springs ... ,, Eoberts to Coffee Creek ... ... ,, Eotoiti Lake Eoad ... ... ,, Euffe Creek Bridge ... ,, Sandstone Creek Track ... ... ,, Shenandoah ... ... „ Taylor Creek to Pea Soup Creek ... ,, Te Wiriki Valley to Lake Eotoroa ... ,, Tiraumee-Valley ... ... ,, Valley Creek ... ... ,, Valley Creek Bridge ... ... ,, Warwick Block ... ... ,, Warwick Junction to Main Eoad ... ,, Supervision Miscellaneous works and services, including assistance towards the construction of roads, bridges, tracks, &e. £ £ 333 334 335 336 337 338 339 340 230 127 395 193 750 162 151 119 341 342 343 344 345 346 347 348 349 350 351 352 353 354 355 356 357 358 359 360 361 362 350 500 500 50 200 297 155 248 164 325 200 199 80 200 400 114 550 250 150 50 100 50 Total—Nelson ... 18,909 363 364 365 366 367 368 369 370 371 372 373 374 375 376 377 378 379 Blenheim Boad District- — Anakoa to Manaroa ... ... Sounds Crail Bay to Manaroa ... ... ,, Endeavour Inlet to Anakoa ... „ Fairy Bay to Nydia Bay... Harvey Bay to Nydia Bay ... ., Onahau to Te Mehia Otaki Bay ... .. ,, Portage Hill Eoad Portage to Waitaria ... ... ,, Queen Charlotte Sound roads South-east Bay to Yncyca Bay ...• .,, Te Mehia to Portage ... ... ,, Waitaria to Manaroa ... ... ,, Mohetapu ... ... Marlborough Mahau ... ... ,, Pine Valley Bridge ... ... ,, Wairau Valley Eoad (Bonnington's ,, to Goulter's) Puhipuhi (east) ... ... Kaikoura Stag Eoad ... ... ,, Supervision Miscellaneous works and services, including assistance towards the con- .... struotion of roads, bridges, tracks, &C. I I I 50 50 50 125 65 75 100 50 100 50 50 50 100 50 50 100 200 380 381 382 383 500 50 50 . . 50 1,965 Total—Blenheim * County contributed £100.

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Item. 1917•18. MINISTER OF PUBLIC WORKS— continued. £ £ 384 385 386 387 388 389 390 391 392 393 394 395 396 397 398 399 400 401 402 403 404 405 406 407 408 409 410 411 412 413 VOTE No. 109— continued. Back-blocks Roads, etc. — continued. Greymouth Boad District — Baker's to Blackwater Creek ... Buller Brighton No. 2 Block ... ... ,, Hawes Creek Bridge ... ... , Horrack Road ... ... ,, Karamea to Heaphy ... ... ,, Little Wanganui to Glasseye ... ,, Little Wanganui to Karamea ... ,, Mokihinui River Bridge approaches ,, Mokihinui to Little Wanganui . . ,, O'Callaghan Road ... ... ,, Six-mile Valley ... ... ,, Tidal Creek ... ... ,, Waikori ... ... ,, Brown Creek Bridge ... ... Inangahua Brown Creek Eoad ... ... ,, Landing Creek Eoad . . . . ,, McDowell Eoad Rough Creek Bridge ... ... ,, Ahaura to Amuri ... ... Grey Craigieburn to Rough Eiver .. ,, Granite Creek Bridge ... ... ,, Kokiri to Moana ... ... ,, Haast Ferry Eoad ... ... Westland Haast Pass ... ... ,, Haast to Matakitaki ... ... ,, Mahitahi to Bruce Bay ... ... ,, Okarito Eoad ... ... ,, Okuru Eiver Settlement... ... ,, Purcell Eoad ... ... ,, Turnbull Eoad ... ... ,, Main South Eoad — Waiho to Karangarua... ... ,, Karangarua to Mahitahi ... ,. Mahitahi to Paringa ... ... ,, Paringa to Blue Eiver ... ... ,, Blue Eiver to Haast ... ... ,, Haast to Okuru ... ... ,, Waikukupa Bridge ... ... ,, Wataroa South Bank ... ... ,, Supervision Miscellaneous works and services, including assistance towards the construction of roads, bridges, tracks, &c. 200 400 100 50 300 40 357 75 181 100 169 50 100 500 1,022 132 100 500 100 200 160 500 50 221 150 100 82 200 180 300 414 415 416 417 418 419 420 421 422 423 376 83 250 300 432 200 825 100 100 100 Total—Greymouth 9,385 124 125 126 127 Christchurch Boad District — Ashley Gorge ... ... Oxford & AshleyHooker Eiver protective works ... Mackenzie Supervision Miscellaneous works and services, including assistance towards the construction of roads, bridges, tracks, &c. 177 142 50 50 Total—Christchurch 419

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item. 191718. MINISTER OF PUBLIC WORKS continued. £ £ :28 :29 30 .31 :32 :33 :34 :35 86 37 .38 VOTE No. 109 continued. Back-blocks Roads, mo.—continued. Dunedin Boad District — Fairlight to head of Mataura Eiver ... Lake Glade House to Lake Wakatipu ... „ Glendhu Peninsula to Mount Aspiring ,, Glenorchy to Paradise ... ... ,, Head of Lake Wakatipu to Milford ,, Sound, via Cleddau Saddle Lee Flat (Eun 186) ... ... Tuapeka Taieri Peak ... ... Waihemo Gardner Eoad ... ... Waitaki Mount Stalker Supervision Miscellaneous works and services, including assistance towards the construction of roads, bridges, tracks, &c. 150 1,363 100 150 400 100 200 100 150 50 50 Total—Dunedin 2,813 39 40 41 :42 48 :44 Invercargill Boad District — Waimatua to Mokotua ... ... Southland Brown's to Settlers' Eeserve ... ,, Lake Hauroko Track ... ... Wallace Lillburn to Hauroko ... ... ,, Supervision Miscellaneous works and services, including assistance towards the construction of roads, bridges, tracks, &c. 165 125 200 300 50 50 Total —Invercargill 890 104,511 Total required for current year—Vote No. 109 72,380

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item. 1917-18. MINISTEE OF MINES. VOTE No. 110. Eoads and other Wohks on Goldfields and Mineral Lands— Assistance towards the construction and repair of roads, tramways, and tracks in mining and mineral districts, prospecting and minor works for the development and protection of the mineral resources, and for the extraction of metals from the ores £ 3,000 £ 3,000 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 II 12 13 1 I 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 80 31 Auckland District — Four-in-Hand Mine Eoad (£1 for £1) Coromandel Main Eoad (£1 for £1) Manaia Creek Bridge (on account of ,, £500) Mercury to Kuaotunu ... ... ,, Mercury Bay to Tairua ... ,, Eangihau Creek, Gumtown to Kapo- ,, wai Road (widening) Crosbie Settlement Track ... Thames Hape Creek Road Bridge ... ,, Hape Creek Road ... ,, Hikutaia Bridge (Main Eoad recon- ,, Struction) Hikutaia to Whangamata, " Wires " ,, Hikuwai to Fourth Branch "... ,, Hikuwai to Ohui ... ,, Hikuwai to Tairua .. ,, Karaka Creek Eoad ... ,, Kauaeranga to Tairua ... ,, Kirikiri Creek Eoad ... ,, Kopata Bridge (Main Eoad), (£2 for £1) Mata Creek Eoad ... ,, McKenzie's Creek Bridge ... ,, Moanatairi Creek Road ... ,, Omahu to Luck-at-Last ... ,, Otahi Creek Bridge (£1 for £1) Puriri to Neavesville ... ,, Puriri Valley Eoad ... ,, Tairua to Whenuakite ... ,, Tapu Creek Bridge (£1 for £1) Tapu to Gumtown ... ,, Tararu Creek Eoad ... ,, Thames (flood-damage prevention), (on ,, account of £1,000) Thames to Waikawau (£1 for £1) ... ,, Waikawau Bridge ... ,, Waikiekie Creek Bridge (£1 for £1) .. Waiomo Creek Eoad ... ,, Whangamata to Luck-at-Last ... ,, Whangamata to Ohui ... ,, Eoad, Karangahake ... Ohinemuri Golden Cross Eoad ... ... ,, Golden Cross to Wharikiraupunga ... ,, Komata to Maratoto ... ... ,, Te Aroha Old Road ... ,, Victoria St. Bridge, Waihi (on account, ,, £800) Waihi to Whangamata ... ... ,, Waitawheta to Waihi (£100, £1 for £1) 50 101 200 100 50 50 50 50 100 1.98 200 100 100 63 100 440 100 100 250 100 50 100 150 200 100 100 500 150 100 200 32 88 31 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 87 400 100 50 100 300 50 50 50 150 100 100 44 45 150 104 5,943

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tem. 1917-18. MINISTER OF MINES— continued. £ £ 46 47 18 49 50 VOTE No. 110— continued. Eoads on Goldfields, etc. — continued, Marlborough District — Battery to Butcher's Point ... Pelorus Eoad Board Canvastown to Deep Creek ... Ditto Deep Creek Bridge, Wakamarina ... ,, Fulton's Grove Eoad ... ,, Mahakipawa to Havelock ... ,, 100 93 188 150 180 711 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 Nelson District — Aorere Bridge (protection), (£1 for £1) Collingwood Aorere to Parapara ... ,, Lunatic Hill Eoad ... ,, Pakawau Eiver Bridge (on account of ,, £500) Pakawau Eoad (protection) ... ,, Pakawau to Washout ... ,, Puponga Flat to Township ... ,, Takaka to Collingwood Inland Eoad ,, Tukurua Bridge (£3 for £1) Anatoki Footbridge ... Takaka Anatoki Track (widening) ... ,, Kill Devil to Waingaro Track ... ,, Upper Anatoki Pack Track ... ,, Arapito to Karamea Gorge to Bennett's Waimea Baker's to Beach ... ,, Fenian Creek Eoad ... ,, Flanagans to Wangapeka Saddle ... ,, 200 200 200 200 150 150 250 60 150 200 100 100 100 64 135 231 482 2,972 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 HI 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 90 91 92 93 West Coast District — Bins Eoad to Ngakawau ... Buller Brighton to Eichard's ... ,, Bullock Creek Track ... „ Carey Eoad ... ,, Charleston to Four-mile ... ,, Coalbrookdale Eoad ... . ,, Coastal Eoad to Big Totara to Little ,, Totara Eiver Denniston Eoads ... ,, Denniston Eoad bridges ... „ Denniston streets ... ,, Excelsior Eoad ... ,, Fairdown Eoad Bridge ... ,, Fairdown to Wareatea ... ,, Fox's Eiver to Pororari (Inland Eoad) ,, Granity to Birchfield (£1 for £1) Grants Creek Bridge (Mokihinui Boad) ,, Hector Eoad ... ,, Herring's to Totara Beach ... ,, Kohaihai Bridge and Eoad ... ,, Lyell Creek Bridge to Alpine Battery ,, McHarries Creek Bridge (£1 for £1)... ,, McMaster's Eoad ... ,, Millerton to Stockton ... ,, Millerton Township ... ,, Mine Creek to Mangatini ... ,, Mokihinui River Bridge to mouth of ,, Mokihinui Eiver Mokihinui Eiver Eoad (bridges) ... ,, 54 100 500 84 100 100 100 ! 575 96 301 100 : 150 | 200 ; 300 67 65 100150 59 100 50 150 375 180 300 57 150 94

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Item. 1917-18. MINISTEE OF MINES— continued. £ £ VOTE No 110— continued. Eoads on Goldfields, etc. — continued, West Coast District —continued. 95 Mount Eadiant Track Bridge ... Buller 96 Nine-mile Beach to Totara Bridge ... ,, 97 , Okari Eiver Bridge (on account of ,, £650) 98 j Oparara to County Boundary ... ,, 99 ! Organ Eoad ... ,, 100 '] Outlet to road, Birchfield (Little Ditch) 101 Podge's Creek Bridge . ,, 102 Belief Channel, Granity ... ,, 103 Scarlett's Creek Bridge ... ,, 104 Seddonville to Mokihinui Mine ex- ,, tension 105 Summerlea Eoad ... ,, 106 j Suspension Bridge, Inangahua Junction ,, to Smith's 107 Utopia Eoad 108 Victoria Eange Track ... ,, 109 Waimangaroa to Waratea ... ,, 110 Wanganui to Wangapeka ... ,, 111 Baker's Creek Bridge ... Grey 112 Barrytown Eoad (Ten Mile Bluff Section) 113 Blackball Creek Bridge 114 Cox Creek Bridge ... ,, 115 Hohonu Eiver Footbridge (£1 for £1) 116 Big Eiver, via Deep Creek ... Inangahua 117 Billett's Eeef Eoad 118 Blackwater Bridge 119 Blackwater to Waiuta ... ,, 120 Boatman's Short Track 121 Golden Point to Maori Gully 122 Hukarere to Blackwater Company's ,, battery-site 123 Larry's Creek Prospecting Track ... ,, 124 Murray Creek Eoad ... ,, 125 Murray Creek Eoad deviation ... ,, 126 Protective works at Crushington (£1 ,, for £1) 127 j Slab Hut Creek to Big Eiver 128 j Soldier's Eoad (Bonanza to Auld's ,, Creek Track) 129 I Waiuta to Prohibition Mine 130 I Westport to Inangahua Eiver, near Waitahu 131 Horse Terrace to Hunters ... Murchison 132 Lewis Creek Track, Howard 133 Matakitaki Eiver Eoad (west bank) ... ,, 134 : Matiri Eiver Eoad (east bank) ... ,, 135 Six-mile Creek Bridge ... ,, 136 Adairs Eoad (£1 for £1) ... ... Westland 137 Awatuna Eoad protection ... ,, 138 Back Creek Eoad deviation and drain ,, 139 Kaniere Lake Eoad protection ... ,, 1.40 McLeod's Eoad deviation ... ,, 40 118 150 200 100 59 52 180 100 58 107 117 75 100 55 143 450 200 302 450 125 1,017 150 223 55 250 153 1,230 100 84 216 70 176 50 307 250 300 73 75 100 100 100 100 65 100 59 13,147 Canterbury District — 141 Kakahi Eiver Bridge (Hilton Crossing), Geraldine (£1 for £1) 141 300

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Item. 1917-18. MINISTEE OF MINES— continued. £ £ 142 143 144 1.45 146 147 148 149 150 151 152 VOTE No. 110— continued. Eoads on Goldfields, etc. — continued, Otago District — Arrowtown to Macetown ... Lake 150 Bannockburn Coal-pit Eoad ... ,, 150 Blue Slip, Skipper's ... ,, 96 Cardrona Coal-pit Eoad ... ,, 100 Glenorchy to Mines (new tracks) ... ,, 200 Mount Mcintosh Track ... ,, 120 Skipper's to Stoney Creek ... ,, 100 Hogburn Channel protection ... Maniototo 150 Lauder to Coalfield ... ,, 200 Upper Taieri Goldfields Eoad ... ,, 100 Carrick to Star Mine Eoad ... Vincent 50 1,416 153 154 155 156 157 158 159 Southland District — Barry's Road, Titipua (£1 for £1) ... Southland 50 Charlton Creek dredging-claims ... ,, 50 Christopherson's Eoad (£1 for £1) ... ,, 119 Hedgehope to Mataura ... ,, 250 McMillans Eoad and Bridge (£1 for £1) ,, 150 Titipua to Brvdone ... ,, 200 Coke to Bound Hill (£1 for £1) ... Wallace 150 969 28,458 Total required for current year—Vote No. 110 ... — 20, 20,20i , 20( i TOTAL CLASS XXII .... .... £451,085 £451, 185

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CLASS XXIII.—DEVELOPMENT OF MINING.

CLASS XXIV.—TELEGRAPH EXTENSION.

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1917-18. Vote No. 111.—Development of Mining £ 1,450 Item. £ £ MINISTEE OF MINES. VOTE No. 111. Development of Mining— 1 Construction of races, reservoirs, and waterworks on goldfields 2 Diamond and other drills and appliances, purchase of ; 1,000 450 Total required for current year —Vote No. Ill ... 1,450 i TOTAL CLASS XXIII £1,450

1917-18. £ 250,000 Vote No. 112.—Telegraph Extension... Item. £ POSTMASTER-GENERAL AND MINISTER OF TELEGRAPHS. VOTE No. 112, Telegraph Extension — 1 New telegraph and telephone lines, submarine cables, telephone connections and installations, and material 250,000 Total—Vote No. 112 ... 250,000 TOTAL CLASS XXIV £250, •OO

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CLASS XXV.—CONTINGENT DEFENCE.

1917-18. ote No. 113. —Contingent Defence ... i r~ £ 15,000 tem. ;em. £ £ MINISTEE OF DEFENCE. VOTE No. 113. Contingent Defence— 1 Drill-sheds, mobilization stores, gun-sheds, barrackrooms magazines, office buildings and stables, erections and additions, also sites ... ...' 1 2 Biiie-ranges (including purchases of land) 16 8 6,000 9,000 2 16,000 9,000 2 Total required for current year —Vote No. 113 ... - 25,000 25 5,000 15,000 TOTAL CLASS XXV .. £15, £15,000

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1917-18. i ote No. 114.—Improved-farm Settlements £ 2,000 ,, 115. —Lands, Miscellaneous 13,000 Total- Class XXVI 15,000 item. £ £ MINISTEE OF LANDS. 1 2 3 4 VOTE No. 114. Improved-farm Settlements — Clearing, Ploughing, Grassing, Fencing (and Material), Draining, Boading, Purchase of Stock, &c. — Auckland Taranaki Wellington Eoads in improved-farm settlement blocks to give access to the North Island Main Trunk Bailway 500 500 500 area 500 Total—Vote No. 114 2,00i 1 3 VOTE No. 115. Lands, Miscellaneous — Access to Section 3, Block XV, Kawhia S.D. Access to sections in Taumatamahoe Block War bonus to workmen Hauraki Pastoral Areas — Thames, Ohinemuri, and Coromandel, formation, construction, and compensation Mamaku water-supply (subsidy, £1 for £1) Opotu Block (access bridges) Southland-Waikiwi Eiver Board (subsidy for widening, &c, the Waikiwi Stream) 300 850 5,000 4 5 6 7 5,000 947 400 1,000 Total required for current year—Vote No. 115 13,497 13,000 TOTAL CLASS XXVI .£15,' 100

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CLASS XXVII.-IRRIGATION AND WATER-SUPPLY.

CLASS XXVIII.—PLANT, MATERIAL, AND STORES.

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1917-18. Vote No. 116.—Irrigation and Water-supply £ 30,000 Item. £ £ MINISTEE OF PUBLIC WOEKS. VOTE No. 116. Irrigation and Water-supply— 1 Irrigation and water-supply (agricultural and mining districts) 30,000 Total—Vote No. 116 , 30,00i TOTAL CLASS XXVII £30,000

Purchase of Plant, Material, and Stores (including adjustment of Plant, Materials, and Stores at present in hand or in use). 1917-18. £ Vote No. 117.—Plant, Material, and Stores ... ... 15,000 item. item. £ £ MINISTEE OP PUBLIC WOEKS. VOTE No. 117. Plant, Material, and Stores— 1 Plant ... ... ... 5,000 2 Material and stores ... ... ... 10,000 1 2 5,000 10,000 „ ..-- ... ( ... ... _„, Total—Vote No. 117 ... ... 15,000 TOTAL CLASS XXVIII .... £15,000 £15,

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LAND FOR SETTLEMENTS ACCOUNT.

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1917-18. No. 121.—Eoads co open up Land for Settlements £ 100,000 Vote l I Item £ £ I MINISTER OF LANDS. 1 2 3 4 5 (i 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 A-J VOTE No. 121. Roads to open up Land for Settlements— Whangarei, Boad District — Kaiikanui Block ... ... Whangarei Kaitara Block ... ... ,, Otaika Block ... ... ,, Poroti Block ... ... ,, Purua Block ... ... ,, Ruakaka Block ... ... ,, Te Wairahi Block ... ... ,, Toiroa Block ... ... ,, Wharekohe Block ... ... ,, Wariara Block ... ... ,, Te Mata Block ... ...Whangarei and Bay of Islands Kaiiwi Block ... ... Hobson Pouto Block ... ... ,, Tangowahine Block (additional) ... ,, Tekopuru Block ' ... ... ,, Whangaiariki Block ... ... ,, Kaipiro Block ... ... Bay of Islands Kaurinui Block ... ... ,, Kerikeri Block ... ... ,, Maungapererua ... ... ,, Motatau Extension Block ... ,, Parahirahi Block ... ... ,, Takawhero Block ... ... ,, Umuwhawha Extension Block ... ,» Mangahoutoa Block ... ... Whangaroa Kereponia Block ... ... Mangonui Orowhana Block ... ... ,, Puheke Block ... ... ,, Puketotara Block ... ... ,, Raetea Extension Block ... ... ,, Takahue to Whangape Block ... ,, Wainui Block ... ... ,, Waitahi Block Totara Block ... Mangonui k Whangaroa Kauriwhati Block ... ... Hokianga Motukaraka Block ... ... ,, Opaopao Block ... ... ,, Pahikakauri Block ... ... ,, Pareokawa Additional Block ... ,, Taketu Block Tapuketaru Block ... ... ,, Waipoua Additional Block ... ,, 100 400 100 150 100 100 100 100 100 400 100 100 750 883 250 200 100 650 100 250 100 100 500 369 50 100 100 700 100 75 502 1,041 100 500 100 100 100 100 155 100 100 500 100 400 100 150 100 100 100 100 100 400 100 100 750 883 250 200 100 650 100 250 100 100 500 369 50 100 100 700 100 75 502 1,041 100 500 100 100 100 100 155 100 100 500

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LAND FOR SETTLEMENTS ACCOUNT— continued.

item. MINISTER OF LANDS— continued. 1917-18. VOTE No. 121— continued. Roads to open up Land for Settlements— continued, Whangarei Boad District —continued, Waoku Additional No. 1 Block ... Hokianga Waoku Additional No. 2 Block Waoku Additional No. 3 Block ... ,, Whakamarangi Block ... ... ,, Blocks not specifically provided for ... £ £ 44 45 46 47 48 85 I , 180 100 250 100 Total —Whangarei 12,500 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 90 91 92 93 94 95 Auckland Boad District — Bickerstaffe Block ... .. Otamatea I Hakaru Block ... ... ,, Mangawai Block ... ... ,, Mangawai Extension Block ... ,, Moles worth Block ... ... ,, Tokatoka No. 1 Block (additional) ... „ Tokatoka No. 2 Block (additional) ... Tokatoka No. 1 (third additional block) ,, Waiteitei Block ... ... Eodney Orewa Block ... ... Waitemata Oteha Block ... ... ,, Paremoremo Block ... ... ,, Swanson Loan Block ... ... ,, Waioneke Block ... ... ,, Weiti Block Eemuera Block ... ... Eden Koheroa Block ... ... Franklin Kopuera Block ... ... ,, Pakington Block ... ... Manakau Waitakaruru Block ... Thames & Ohinemuri Waitawheta Block ... ... Ohinemuri Mangawhara Block (additional) ... Ohinemuri and Piako Mangakahika Block ... ... Piako Te Aroha Block ... Te Aroha Borough Te ArohaJExtension Block ,, Mangaokahu Extension No. 2 Block Eaglan Okawhao Block ... ... ,, Tamatakohe Block ... ... ,, Te Akau Block • Uraura Block ... ... Matamata Hauturu Block ... ... Waitomo Kakepuku Extension No. 2 Block ... ,, Keketuku Block ... ... ,, Moakaua Block ... ... ,, Ngakouohia Block ... ... ,, Puketarata No. 2 Extension Block ... ,, Takotokoraha Block ... ... ,, Turitea Block Tapuaehounuku Block ... ... ,, Te Puhi Extension Block Moerangi Block ... ... Kawhia Moerangi Extension Block Pirorua Block ... ... ,, Taumatatotara Block ... ... ,, Okupai Block ... ... ,, Waikare Block ... ... Waikato Waiterimu Block ... ... ,, 600 100 500 100 100 3,831 500 4,200 200 90 312 659 629 300 647 500 920 100 400 1,622 202 1,090 710 2,160 2,000 100 426 450 50 1,000 200 160 100 100 100 200 150 100 2,962 100 4,197 4,600 100 100 580 200 400

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I Item. MINISTEE OF LANDS— continued. VOTE No. 121— continued. Eoads to open up Land for Settlements— continued, Auckland Boad District —continued. 96 Eangitoto No. 2 Block ... ... West Taupo 97 Tirohanga Block ... ... ,, 98 Wharepuhunga Extension No. 2 Block ,. 99 Wharepuhunga Extension No. 3 Block 100 Pamotumutu Block 101 i Pouakani Block ... ... ,, 102 ! Eanginui Block ... ... ,, 103 Blocks not specifically provided for ... £ 100 2,800 732 210 2,000 2,000 4,000 100 1917-18. Total—Auckland 50,789 Tauranga Road District — 104 Aongatete Block ... ... Tauranga 105 Aongatete Extension No. 1 Block ... ,, 106 Aongatete Extension No. 2 Block ... ., 107 Aongatete Extension No. 3 Block ... ,, 108 Minden Block 109 Pongakawa Block ... ... ,, 110 j Taupiro Block HI I Tahunaroa Block ... ... ,, 112 Mamaku (additional) .. ... Eotorua 113 ', Mangorewa-Kaharoa Block (additional) ,, 114 Omanawa Extension ... ... ,, 115 Pahiatu Block 116 Uraura Block ... ... „ 117 Eotoma Block ... Eotorua and Whakatane 118 Ahi Inanga Block ... ... Whakatane 119 i Tuararangaia Block ... ... ,, 120 • Oruanui Block ... ... East Taupo 121 Pohukura Block 122 j Tauhara Block 123 ! Tauhara No. 1 Block ... 124 | Tauhara No. 2 Block 125 j Tihoi Block ... 126 I Blocks not specifically provided for ... 1,108 98 100 100 100 100 500 300 600 676 100 500 500 3,000 500 100 3,000 100 125 500 500 1,300 100 Total—Tauranga 14,007 127 128 129 130 131 132 133 134 135 136 137 138 139 140 141 142 143 144 145 146 Gisborne Road District — 127 Kapuarangi Block ... ... Opotiki 128! Kapuarangi No. 2 Block... 129 Oamaru No. 4 Block 130 Oamaru No. 5 Block 131 Okahuata Block 132 J Takaputahi Block 133 ! Takaputahi Extension Block 134 Waiawa No. 2 Block 135 ' Tahora Block ... Opotiki & Waikohu 136 Ngatapa Block ... ... Waikohu 137, Tahora No. 2 South Block ... Cook & Opotiki 138 ; Huiarua Block ... ... Waiapu 139 Te Puia Block 140 Hukanui Block ... ... Wairoa 141 Mahia Township Block ... ... ,. 142 J Matukuhia Block 143 Ngapakira Block ... ... ,, 144 : Waipaoa Block 145 Wairau Block ... 146 Blocks not specifically provided for ... 100 1,000 100 2,342 100 1,258 1,800 100 100 201 100 235 170 471 100 388 1,000 100 100 100 Total—Gisborne 9,865

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Item. 1917-18. MINISTEE OF LANDS— continued. VOTE No. 121— continued. Eoads to open up Land for Settlements— continued. Taumarunui Road District — Aria Township Block ... ... Waitomo Kopaki Block ... ... ,. Kopaki Extension Block... Mangaiti Block ... ... ,, Mangaorongo Block ... ... ,, Mokauiti Block ... ... ,, Pukakaihau Block ... ... ,, Puketawa Block Puna Block (Eangitoto-Tuhua 46 and 47) ., Puna Extension Block ... Eangitoto-Tuhua, 49 and 46 Block ,, (Ohiria Block) - Eangitoto-Tuhua, 57a Block (Paemahoe Block) TeKoko Block Umu Block ... ... ... ,, Waimeha Block ... ... ,, Maramataho Block ... Ohura Matiere Township No. 3 Block ... ,, Mirotahuna Block ... ... ,, Mirotahuna Extension Block ... ,, Mokau-Ohura Extension Block ... ,, Opatu Block ... ... ,, Parare Block ... ... ,, Waitaanga Block ... ... ,, Weraroa Block ... ... ,, Tapuiwahine Block ... Ohura & Waitomo Mangakahu Block ... ... West Taupo Ongaruhe Block ... ... West Taupo Owepanga Block ... ... ,, Taringamutu Block Tuhingamata Block ... ... ,, Kakabi Extension Block ... Kaitieke Kakahi Village Settlement No. 2 Loan ., Block Maukuroa (Manunui Extension) Block North Waimarino Block ... ,, Owhango Block ... ... ,, Owhango Township Extension No. 1 Block ,, Tahukaroa Block ... ... ,, Tunanui Block ... ... ,, Mahaki Block ... ... Waimarino Blocks not specifically provided for ... £ £ 147 148 149 150 151 152 153 154 155 156 157 347 233 788 180 100 95 500 100 100 100 250 158 1,077 159 160 161 162 163 164 165 166 167 168 169 170 171 172 173 174 175 176 177 178 100 100 500 100 561 100 500 500 50 120 270 1,500 1,614 100 10,000 2,430 3,000 1,000 200 173 179 180 181 182 183 184 185 186 250 100 100 69 200 277 500 100 Total Taumarunui 28,384 • 187 188 189 190 191 192 193 194 195 196 197 Stratford Boad District — Hutewai Block ... ... Clifton Hikomako Block ... ... Awakino Kinohaku West Extension Block ... ,, Kiritehere Block ... ... • ,, Mangoira Block ... ... ,, Moeatoa Extension Block ... ,, Ngararahae Block ... ... ,, Orekopa Extension No. 2 Block ... ,, Papakauri Extension Block .. ,, Whareorino Block ... ... ,, Maraekowhai Block (Marae- Whangamomona kowhai No. 2 Block) 100 100 500 100 2,069 500 100 500 900 700 1,459

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Item. item. .1917-18. MINISTEE OF LANDS— continued. £ £ 198 199 200 201 202 203 204 205 206 198 199 200 201 202 203 204 205 206 VOTE No. 121— continued. Eoads to open up Land for Settlements continued, btratford Boad District —continued. Whitianga Block .. Whangamomona 500 Tahora Township Block ,, 66 Maraekowhai Extension Block Whaiigamomona 1,637 and Ohura Omona Block ... ... Stratford 608 Omona Township Block... ... Eltham 100 Manawapou Block .. ... Hawera 380 Huparati Block ... ... Egmont | 150 Eaoraomouku Block ... ... Waitotara 1,643 Blocks not specifically provided for ... ... 100 Total—Stratford ... ... 12,212 207 208 209 210 211 212 213 214 J 215 216 217 218 219 220 221 : 222 223 224 225 226 227 228 229 Wanganui Road District — Erua Township Block ... ... Waimarino 100 Horopito Block ... ... ,, 100 Horopito West Block ... ... ,, 222 Hutia Block ... ... ,, 1,948 Mangaparua Block ... ... ,, 938 Mangatiti Block ... ... ,, 93 Ohakune Suburbs Block .. ... ,, 100 Okauamo Loan Block ... ... ,, 575 Tawhero Loan Block ... ... ,, 218 Tupapanui No. 2 Block ... .. ,, 59 Waitangi Township Block ... ,, 100 Kahakaha 3a Block ... ... Wanganui 150 Whakaihuwaka Block ... ... Patea 700 Kaitieke Township Block ... Kaitieke 100 Kaiwakauka Block ... ... ,, 8,339 Morinui Block ... ... ,, 264 Oio Block ... ... „ 100 TeWaro Block ... ... „ 500 Te Mata Block ... Waimarino & Kaitieke 1,859 Pukenaua Block ... ... Eangitikei 600 Turakina Block .,. ... ,, 100 Taunoka Block ... ... Waitotara 67 Blocks not specifically provided for ... ... 100 Total—Wanganui ... ... 17,332 . i 230 231 332 233 234 235 236 237 238 239 240 241 242 Napier Boad District — Tiratu Block ... ... Waipawa 10,900 Awa-o-totara Block ... ... Wairoa 100 Heru-a-tureia Block ... ... ,, 500 Pohukura Block ... ... ,, 500 Putere Block ... ... ,, 100 TeKuta Block ... ... ,, 100 Purahotangahia Block ... ... • ,, 11,260 Omahaki Block ... ... Hawke's Bay 500 Mangangarara Block ... ... Patangata 1,000 Mangaorapa Block ... ... ,, 100 Porangahau Block ... ... ,, 3,727 Whangaehu Block ... ... ,, 100 Blocks not specifically provided for ... ... 100 Total—Napier ... ... ... 28,987

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Item. tem. 1917-18. MINISTEE OF LANDS— continued. 243 244 245 246 247 248 249 250 251 252 253 254 255 256 257 258 259 260 261 262 243 244 245 246 247 248 249 250 251 252 253 254 255 256 i 257 258 259 260 261 262 263 264 265 266 267 268 VOTE No. 121— continued. £ £ Eoads to open up Land for Settlements continued. Wellington Boad District — Tamaki No. 2 Block ... ... Dannevirke 100 Tiratu Block... ... ... ,, 1,000 Aorangi Block ... ... Kairanga 1,000 Oroua Block ... ... „ 470 Manawatu Gorge Forest Block Kairanga & Pahiatua 484 Makopua Block ... ... Eangitikei 3,455 Pouwhakarua Block ... ... ,, 300 Rocky Creek Block ... ... ,, 100 Piripiri Block ... ... Pohangina 541 Takapari Block ... ... „ 100 Upper Gorge Block ... ... ,, 1,652 Otamakapua Block ... ... Kiwitea 100 Onslow Block ... ... ,, 100 Ruahine Block ... ... ,, 100 Ahuaturanga Block ... ... Woodville i 145 Huiru Block ... ... Akitio 100 Masterton Reform Block ... ,, 100 Rising Sun Block ... ... ,, 376 Woodville Centennial Block ... ,, 100 Heckler Block ... ... Mauriceville: 717 and Eketahuna Hamua Block (Section 35, Block II, Eketahuna 120 Mangaone) Haurangi Forest Block... ... Featherston 2,200 Hurupi Block ... ... ,, 523 Waitutumu Block ... ... ,, 100 Pitt Block ... ... Hutt 100 Blocks not specifically provided for ... ... 100 263 264 265 266 267 268 Total—Wellington ... ... 14,183 269 270 271 272 273 274 275 276 277 278 279 280 281 282 283 284 285 286 287 288 289 290 291 292 293 294 295 296 297 298 Nelson Boad District — Hope Block ... ... Waimea 59 Lamb Valley Block ... ... „ 1,760 Lee Eiver Extension Block ... ,, 250 Motueka Sections (Brown Acre) ... „ 100 Mount Arthur Sections ... ... ,, 100 Eainy Eiver South Block ... ,, 500 Waimea North Block ... ... ., 100 Anatoki Block ... ... Takaka 200 Caanan Block .. ... ,, 100 Totaranui (and extension) Block ... ,, 300 Waitapu Block ... ... ,, 250 Alfred Eiver Block ... ... Murchison ! 100 Blackwater South Block ... ,, 200 Gowan Block ... ... „ 1,884 Howard Block ... ... ,, 950 Howard Extension Block ... ,, 500 Maruia East Block ... ... ,, 550 Maruia South Block ... ... ,, 100 Maruia South No. 2 Block ... ,, 400 Matakitaki West Block ... ... ,, 1,000 Matiri-Owen Block ... ... ,, 500 Mid Maruia Block ... ... ,, 75 Mole Block ... ... ... ,, 500 Owen Extension Block ... .. ,, 100 Owen North Block ... ... ,, 265 Eotoroa Block ... ... ,, 100 Slips Block ... ... ... ,, 800 Station Creek Block ... ... ,, 100 Warwick Block ... ... ,, 100 Blocks not specifically provided for ... ... 100 Total—Nelson ... ... ... 12,043

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Item. 1917MINISTER OF LANDS— continued. £ 191718. £ VOTE No. 121— continued. Roads to open up Land for Settlements— continued. Blenheim Boad District — 299 Upper Opouri Block ... ... Marlborough 775 300, Tinlme No. 2 Block ... ... „ 136 301 | Tunakino Block ... ... „ 518 302 ! Rai Valley Block ... ... „ 134 303 Wakamarina Block ... ... ,, 1,300 304 Mahakipawa Block ... ... „ 108 305 Neutral Spur Block ... ... ,, 75 306 Wairau Valley Block ... ... ,, 120 307 : Blocks not specifically provided for ... ... 100 775 136 518 134 1,300 108 75 120 100 Total—Blenheim ... ... 3,266 3,266 Greymouth Boad District— 308 Baker Creek Block ... ... Buller 201 309 Captain's Creek Block ... ... ,, 500 310: Granity Creek Block ... ... ,, 1,500 311 i Kongahu Block ... ... ,, 100 312 Little Wanganui Block ... ... „ 200 313 Mokihinui Forks Block ... ... ,, 500 314 Okare Block ... ... „ 1,250 315 Oparara Block ... ... „ 1,000 316 Orikaka Block ... ... ,, 2,500 317 Otumahana Extension Block ... ,, 100 318 South Terrace Block ... ... ,, 200 319 Steeples Block ... ... „ 298 320 Tidal Creek Block ... ... „ 75 321 Waitakere Block ... ... ,, 100 322 Bell Hill Block ... ... Grey 500 323 Brunner Block ... ... ,, 650 324 Kaimata Block ... ... ,, 75 325 Rough River Block ... ... Inangahua: 600 326 Education Endowment Eeserve 124 Block Westland 100 327 Kumara Block ... ... ,, 1,000 328 Oinemaka Block ... ... ,, 100 329 Waitangitona Block ... ... ,, 50 330 Blocks not specifically provided for ... .. 100 308 309 310 311 312 313 314 315 316 317 318 319 320 321 322 323 324 325 326 327 328 329 330 201 500 1,500 100 200 500 1,250 1,000 2,500 100 200 298 75 100 500 650 75 600 100 1,000 100 50 100 Total —Greymouth ... ... 11,699 11,699 331 332 333 334 335 336 337 338 339 340 341 Christchurch Boad District — 331 Eun 141, Esk Head ... ... Ashley 150 332 Eun 142, The Lakes ... ... „ 150 333 Eun 66, Waitangi ... ... ., 100 334 Eun 100, Mount Hutt ... ... Ashburton 100 335 Eun 104, Mount Somers... ... ,, 75 336 | Eollesby Block ... ... Mackenzie 100 337, Eeserve No. 62 ... Mount Herbert 150 338 \ Eun 144, Snowdale ... ... Oxford 150 339- Eun 149, Woodstock ... ... „ 50 340 Eun 47, Otaio ... ... Waimate 100 341 Blocks not specifically provided for ... ... 100 Total—Christchurch ... ... 1.225

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LAND FOR SETTLEMENTS ACCOUNT— continued.

Item. 1917Item. -18. MINISTEE OF LAND'S— continued. £ £ 342 343 344 345 346 347 VOTE No. 121— continued. Eoads to open up Land for Settlements— continued. Dunedin Boad District — 342 : Galloway Euns Block ... ... Vincent 100 343 ' Benmore Euns Block ... ... Waitaki 500 344 Eimu Block ... ... Clutha! 250 345 Hawkden Euns ... ... Maniototo 800 346! Maniototo No. 2 Block ... ... „ 307 347 Blocks not specifically provided for ... ... 100 Total—Dunedin .. ... 2,057 p Invercargill Boad District — 348 Campbelltown No. 1 Block ... Southland 119 349 Grove Bush Block ... ... „ 1,000 350! Hedgehope Block ... ... ,, 864 351 Heale Eidge Block ... ... ,, 300 352 Oteramika Block ... ... ,, 01 353 : Waikaia Block ... ... „ 300 354 Aparima No. 4 Block ... ... Wallace 910 355 Jacob's Eiver No. 2 Block ,, 700 356 Jacob's Eiver No. 3 Block ... ,, 3,000 357 Lillburn No. 1 Block ... ... „ 100 358 Bound Hill Block ... ... „ 309 359 I Bound Hill No. 1 Block... ... ,, 600 360 : Terepa Block ... ... ,, 282 361 Blocks not specifically provided for .. ... 100 Total—Invercargill ... ... 8,645 362 Discharged Soldiers'Blocks ... ... 20,000 247,194 Total required for current year —Vote No. 121 ! 100,000 LAND FOE SETTLEMENTS ACCOUNT .... £100, ,000

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Appropriations for Electric Supply Account, and- Railways Improvement Authorization, Account.

ELECTRIC SUPPLY ACCOUNT. (AID TO WATER-POWER WORKS ACCOUNT.)

RAILWAYS IMPROVEMENT AUTHORIZATION ACT, 1914. ACCOUNT.

1917-18. I i ote No. 122.—Development of Water-power £ 55,000 £ £ Item. ELECTRIC SUPPLY ACCOUNT. 1 VOTE No. 122. Development of Water-power— Lake Coleridge scheme (including salaries, travelling expenses, war-bonus, and all other expenses) Survey and investigation of other schemes, office and engineering expenses, and contingencies 54,000 1,000 2 Total—Vote No. 122 ... 55,000 ELECTEIC SUPPLY ACCOUNT £55,000

1917-18. £ Railways Improvement ... ... ... ... 250,000 £ £ RAILWAYS IMPROVEMENT AUTHORIZATION ACT, 1914, ACCOUNT. Railways Improvement— Improvements as authorized in Schedule to Act (on account) ... ... ... 250,000 Total .. ... ... 250,000 i RAILWAYS IMPROVEMENT AUTHORIZATION) M „ Ann ACT, 1914, ACCOUNT j ' • 5U > UU, >

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Appropriations for Waihou and, Ohinemuri Rivers Improvement Account, Telegraph Extension Account, and National Endowment Account.

WAIHOU AND OHINEMURI RIVERS IMPROVEMENT ACCOUNT.

1917-18. £ 20,000 Waihou and Ohinemuri Rivers Improvement I I" WAIHOU AND OHINEMURI RIVERS IMPROVEMENT ACCOUNT. Waihou and Ohinemuri Rivers Improvement— Expenditure under section 17 of the Waihou and Ohinemuri Rivers Improvement Act, 1910 ... ... ... j 20,000 £ Total ... ... ... 20,00i I I WAIHOU AND OHINEMURI EIVEES 1 IMPROVEMENT ACCOUNT J £20,000 TELEGRAPH EXTENSION ACCO T. 1917-18. £ 96,689 Telegraph Extension Account £ £ TELEGRAPH EXTENSION ACCOUNT. Telegraph Extension Account— Expend ture under section 34, Appropriation Act, 1917 96,689 Total 96,689 TELEGRAPH EXTENSION ACCOUNT £9(5,689 NATIONAL ENDOWMENT ACCO UNT. 1917-18. ational Endowment Account iwment Account £ 2,379 NATIONAL ENDOWMENT ACCOUNT. NATIONAL ENDOWMENT ACCOUNT. ational Endowment Account— Expenditure under section 34, Appropriation Act, 1917 l Endowment Account— diture under section 34, Appropriation Act, 1917 ... 2,379 Total Total ... ... .. 2,379 NATIONAL ENDOWMENT ACCOUNT \TIONAL ENDOWMENT ACCOUNT .... £2,379 By Authority : Marcus V. Marks, Government Printer, Wellington. —1917..