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SUMMARY OF WORKS CONSTRUCTED— continued.

List of Works on Goldfields undertaken wholly by the Mines Department, or by Subsidies to County Councils, Local Bodies, and Prospecting Associations, in Progress on the 31st March, 1906.

Nature of Works. Total Cost of Construction, or Amount authorised to be expended. Expenditure, by way of Subsidy or otherwise, by Mines Department. Amount of Liability by Mines Department on Works iu Progress. Summary. £ s. d. 617,691 8 6 175,502 1 5 6,146 9 10 92,433 16 4 115,563 2 1 435 15 9 39,776 4 1 46,283 5 9 5,170 11 4 3,661 18 0 325 8 1 800 0 0 500 0 0 57,955 1 8 3,112 7 0 25,197 1 8 00 0 0 39,781 7 7 £ a. a. 584,619 8 5 103,283 12 2 4,759 6 2 36,740 0 7 111,855 17 3 285 15 9 39,776 4 1 31,265 0 5 3,428 11 4 3,011 18 0 325 8 1 800 0 0 500 0 0 32,455 1 8 3,112 7 0 25,197 1 8 50 0 0 39,781 7 7 £ s. d. 33,072 0 1 450 0 0 Roads on goldfields Subsidised roads and tracks Subsidised roads and tracks other than on goldfields Prospecting Water-races .. Wharves Schools of Mines Drainage-channels Diamond drills Treatment of ores Tracks to open up mineral lands Artesian-well boring, Maniototo Plains Repairing flood-damages Prospecting deep levels Resumption of land Water-conservation Construction of telephone-lines Proclamation of rivers 1,274 10 5 1,612 0 0 1,230,395 19 1 1,021,247 0 2 36,408 10 6

Locality aud Nature of Works. Total Cost, or Amount authorised. Amount of Contributi' n paid by Mines Department. Amount due bv Mines Department on Works still in Progress. NORTH ISLAND. Roads (subsidised). Great Barrier , Island. toad from Sunbeam Mine to battery £ s. d. 300 0 0 £ s. d. £ b. d. 150 0 0 Coromandel County. 100 0 0 50 0 0 [oununga Bridge Thames County. letalling Tapu Creek Road 50 0 0 25 0 0 MIDDLE ISLAND. Roads (subsidised). Buller County. Sharleston Main Road to Croninville Claim 200 0 0 100 0 0 Westland County. 'raok, Muller's to MoLeod's Terrace Claim 50 0 0 25 0 0 Boss Borough Council. lepaire, Donnelly Creek Bridge 200 0 0 100 0 0 900 0 0 450 0 0