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Return showing Lines authorised and not completed, Length not completed, and Estimated Cost of Completion— continued.

H. J. H. Blow, Under-Secretary. Public Works Department, 21st December, 1897. Approximate Cost of Paper.— Preparation, not given: printing (1,425 copies), £1 6s. 6d.

By Authority : John Mackay, Government Printer, Wellington.—lB9B.

Price 3d.

Lines of Railways authorised to be constructed and not yet completed. Length of each Line of Railway which has not yet been completed. Estimated Cost of completing each suoh Line of Railway. Brought forward ... South Island —continued. Canterbury Interior— Oxford-Sheffield Otago Central Invercargill-Kingston— Lumsden-Mararoa Forest Hill Tramway M. 98 ch. 26 £ 690,000 71 116 36 36 375,000 800,000 19 14 40 0 80,000 20,000 Total South Island 319 58 1,965,000 North Island South Island 201 319 70 58 1,721,000 1,965,000 Grand total 521 48 £3,686,000