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TABLE H — continued. Total Cost of Lines of Telegraph, &c. — continued.

* Average cost per mile. Total number of miles of line, 3,638 ; total number of miles of wire, 9,333. 3—P. 6.

Section of Line. Length of Section in Miles. Cost of Clearing Bush. Cost of Wire, Total Cost of Arms, Poles, including Insulators, &c, Delivery. including Carriage. Cost of Erection. Total Cost of Section. Cost per Mile. Wellington to Waintti, reconstruction, 127 miles... Kawakawa to Mongonui ... Railway Wires, — Auckland to Penrose, 8 miles Waipukurau to Kopua... New Plymouth to Inglewood, including P' line to Waita rauranga to Kati construction, 30 miles ... Wellington to Masterton, Fifth Wire, 60 miles ... Masterton to Ti Nui, Fourth Wire, 30 miles Port Albert Line Wairoa Line and Second Wire Auckland to Waipu, 119 miles Wellington to Auckland ■ Extra Wires, 540 miles Palmerston to Woodville Line Fourth Wire Wellington to Wanganui, 140 miles ... Foxton to Palmerston, reconstruction, 28 miles ... £ a. d. £ a. d. • £ a. d. £ a. d. £ a. d. £ a. d. £ s. d. 53 84 7 9 84 7 9 1,094 15 6 1 962 16 6 865 6 10 654 2 5 1,138 8 7 1,493 9 2 3,098 10 11 3,i94 iS 10 24 8 o 60 5 7 19 627 5 11 33 13 "I 143 1 5 1 i 43 19 6 247 18 7 77 1.3 S 1,018 5 11 9 14 2 53 11 10 88 16 11 187 19 11 233 10 7 510 7 5 127 11 10 149 9 o 53 3 o 219 5 1 421 17 i 14 1 2 900 456 10 11 408 19 o 874 9 11 14 11 6 24 209 7 6 262 1 6 163 1 4 573 9 5 134 19 4 835 10 11 So? 8 2 27 17 o 21 2 10 62 92.3 o 8 1 1,410 18 9 2,470 17 11 7,243 14 9 40 o s 9 S,5oo 5 6 2,822 11 8 8,818 13 11 16 6 7 17 7414 8 2 757 10 11 1,932 17 7 "3 14 o 295 i 8 3 745 13 4 2,415 2 1 17 5 o 18 4 204 9 6 223 7 10 7 19 6 Total, North Island... Total, South Island ... 1,676 1,962 ii,i74 5 4 19,769 11 11 S4,74i 66,941 5 3 2 o 5 1- 444 9 9 51,078 7 5 66,993 6 7 62,712 8 8 189,353 6 11 200,501 10 o 389,854 16 11 *II2 19 7 *I02 3 IO 3,638 3o,943 17 3 121,682 7 3 107,522 17 2 129,705 iS 3 Mount Egmont Boad Repairs to No. 1 Cook's Strait Cable ... Expenditure on Railway Lines South (to be recovered from Public Works Department) ... Expenditure on Railway Lines North (to be recovered from Public Works Department) No. 1 Cook Strait Cable, including freight from Lendon and expenses of laying No. 2 Cook Strait Cable, including freight from London, expenses of laying, and 8j miles of spare cable, and demurrage of ship " Zealandia " Five miles spare No. 1 Cable, including freight from London... 1,006 11 6 2,126 17 9 i,939 9 2 2,377 7 5 29,864 o o 13,248 6 8 2,822 4 3 Total expenditure, exclusive of lines in progress 443,239 13 8