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Table 2. GENERAL SUMMARY. Showing Yearly Expenditure out of Public Works Fund, 1880-81 to 1896-97.

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Expenditure. Jlass. Description of Services. 1880-81. 1881-82. 1882-83. 1883-84. 1884-85. 1885-86. 1886-87. 1887-88. 1888-89. 1889-90. 1890-91. 1891-02 1892-93. 1893-94. 1894-95. 1895-96. 1896-97. Services at present charged to Part I. of the Public Works Fund. £ £ £ £ £ £ £ £ £ £ £ £ £ £ £ £ £ 29,701 4,334 3,999 107,041 57,148 11,675 12,454 15,598 8,791 867 1,823 817 242 343 101 Cr. 10 301 I. Immigration Public Works Departmental* 12,896 6,089 6,458 700 6,996 . 5,990 6,606 6,880 §12,499 14,892 II. 16,729 4,762 7,976 3,005 177,706 III. Railways! 1,408 135,632 137,085 106,581 176,224 193,308 IV. Roads: — Roads North of Auckland Main Roads Miscellaneous Roads and Bridges Roads to open up Lands ) 43,773 83,501 17,022 92,519 7,929 111,603 ( 17,566 31,809 61,635 84,631 34,571 30,380 37,165 49,314 33,163 26,833 37,615 61,794 30,788 22,294 39,748 57,157 3,138 13,756 25,989 61,488 264 10,968 26,748 21,954 ( 26,913 (Or. J90 10,770 267 12,799 19,998 28,160 2,172 Cr. {153 7,345 9,905 12,489 24,285 1,586 Cr. +395 4,884 11,739 6,843 27,993 10,757 Cr. }1U 3,830 12,588 10,443 21,989 22^235 j 58,042 j 8,951 1 Cr. +250 2,898 22j 730 9,973 27*,959 17,075 4/289 11,195 52,152 35,936 81,634 Grants-in-Aid 106,399 149,982 138,045 81,264 57,632 I 1 7,144 Cr. +6,364 Village Settlements Local Bodies|l .. Roads on Goldfields Miscellaneous .. .. •• •■ Development of Thermal Springs and Natural Scenery 1,891 12,053 4,412 168 21,513 59 207 32,578 9,439 26^602 15,631 31,622 32,625 25,053 7^015 13,290 12,687 9,795 19^490 20,387 171577 51,117 129 16,023 Total v Roads 230,543 145,606 210,605 328,642 317,043 329,072 265,717 199,109 104,542 83,878 65,441 70,846 76,066 112,263 43,916 66,774 64,292 Development of Goldfields 16,577 13,272 6,824 16,596 8,029 9,032 7,665 1,010 .55 284 821 2,257 3,811 5,272 4,320 5,865 9,345 10,508 V. 56,887 37,912 29,844 CV.+10,438 Cr. 37 VI. Purchase of Native Lands, North Island 24,480 19,532 70,572 34,545 18,457 1,515 5,089 4,144 4,012 23,610 349 Telegraph Extension 43,783 7,485 18,654 25,799 36,010 18,952 22,984 12,047 16,346 16,292 27,773 29,245 16,127 19,229 VII. 35,538 36,791 VIII. Public Buildings :— Parliamentary General Judicial Post and Telegraph Customs Survey Quarantine Station Lunatic Asylums Miscellaneous Hospitals and Charitable Institutions School-buildings Agricultural 55,402 9,336 16!259 1,752 "971 26,695 5,331 16,743 9,939 193 20 996 31,652 8,416 22,652 22,616 1,659 34 848 58,047 34 256 49,814 183 12,227 8,955 830 313 24,992 11,106 4,880 99 461 123 4,007 8 947 15,875 2,772 "274 13,694 24 12,742 8,273 2,227 14,588 8,228 82 10,242 7,256 11,246 1,376 18 15,717 J 2,880 9,892 708 409 8,930 I 454 8,901 1,009 13 16,914 1,588 2,779 6,843 5 11,887 831 5,262 3,154 669 9,374 11,487 3,542 317 3,435 27,341 6,194 647 9 8,178 14,806 7,504 16 39^604 23,107 18,957 13,633 10,936 16,404 21219 99,173 140 82,535 64 88,134 3,792 66,069 62,884 421 51,607 40,000 673 779 Cr.' 140 i\ 500 7,999 15j 000 15,000 837 6,560 20,000 1,127 700 22,143 819 "l59 Total, Public Buildings 205,734 128,352 ! 153,072 164,376 117,361 86,859 89,598 90,529 34,592 35,473 22,819 34,791 31,101 44,032 54,190 76,240 70,579 IX. Lighthouses, Harbour Works, and Harbour Defences :— Lighthouses Harbour Works Harbour Defences 24,512 904 2,397 18,810 4,724 19,874 6,730 29,591 7,213 7,382 17,050 9,601 300 6,508 127,167 3,272 6,004 139,429 2,866 500 73,459 2,504 Cr. +5,000 50,089 1,552 11589 7,293 "l89 2,477 7,347 6,642 4,563 2,612 3,976 651 2,494 234 3,861 3,314 6,067 866 4,667 Total, Lighthouses, &c. 25,416 21,207 24,598 43,534 34,033 133,975 148,705 76,825 47,593 8,845 2,666 7,347 11,205 6,588 3,145 7,409 11,600 Contingent Defence 154,000 133,219 25,000 12,500 •• 5,000 10,554 Rates on Native Lands 25,139 8,446 10,304 5,874 8,250 2,038 Cr. 615 18 ) 415 J 561 340 332 X. Thermal Springs 7,814 2,999 935 2,587 264 Charges and Expenses raising Loans 28,758 3,084 5,356 942 Advance to Westport Harbour, repayable 14,336 iCr.+14,336 Unauthorised 289 Totals for the Services at present charged *-n Part I. of Public Works Fund .. 762,641 491,387 447,596 704,201 629,985 666,168 636,626 440,854 249,590 167,360 128,416 312,371 330,891 333,051 300,817 389,590 414,062 Other Services. Railways:— Construction Works, including Rails, Sleepers, and Rolling-stock, and Additions to Open Lines Roads to give access to North Island Trunk Railway Purchase of District Railways Purchase of Native Lands, North Island 950,395 432,524 436,054 662,046 663,063 537,196 6,832 188,300 432,349 12,900 166,187 70,379 402,318 20,410 267,315 1,898 206,596 248 75,000 24,050 177,015 5,848 18,784 30,759 43,188 29,440 39,219 35,155 32,964 17,841 48,000 Cr. +.12 20,882 13,923 24',129 3, 983 13/913 28^787 57,187 Cr. +2J 428 Total charge to Railways (except the small items in Part I.) 432,524 436,054 662,046 663,063 732,328 681,815 446,857 273,196 305,894 196,776 78,330 129,815 71,946 98,793 20,882 13,923 950,395 Miscellaneous, including Charges and Expenses raising Loans, Interest and Sinking Fund, Public Works Departmental [ 206,605 26,808 13,387 43,341 43,679 76,890 15,043 78,448 91,153 i 12,2941 +.3,084} 9,564 800 1,800 1,800 1,800 1,800 Total, Other Services 1,157,000 459,332 449,441 705,387 706,742 809,218 696,858 525,305 364,349 315,104 206,340 79,130 131,615 73,746 100,593 22,681 Grand Total .. .. ■ ■ 897,037 1,409,588 1,336,727 1,475,386 1,333,484 966,159 {613,939 482,464 334,756 391,501 462,506 406,797 401,410 412,329 427,985 1,919,641 950,719 * Up to 1886-87 this item was not subdivided, and is included under item " Miscellaneous," a t Up to 31st March, 1886, all expenditure on railways was included under one heading. _ Divii { These credits are recoveries on account of expenditure of previous years on appropriations, 8 § Includes Midland Railway arbitration, 1895-96, £5,587. || Previously provided under Part II. II Raising dredge, paid out of Unauthorised ; £250 recovered from Mokihinui Coal Company. 2—D. 1. it foot of table. ided under Parts I., II., and III., frorr amounting to, in 1888-89, £19,426; 1: 1886 to 189: 189-90, £3,2i ,. Parts I. and III. agaii 7 ; 1890-91, £395 ; 1891-! amalgama 12, £111 ; IE ted in 1891-! 192-93, £10,4 32. Part II. closed 1896-! 146; 1893-94, £2,678; 189 97. 14-95, £6,376.