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TABLE No. 2. GENERAL SUMMARY. Showing Net Yearly Expenditure out of Public Works Fund, 1892-93 to 1913-14.

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N.B. —The figures in italics, prefixed by " Cr.," are either rec< The totals from 1892-93 to 1896-97, inclusive, include 'veries on aei sxpenditure ;ount of services of previous years or receipts-in-aid applied in reduction of expenditure. mder Native Lands Purchase Account; and from 1894-95 to 1896-97, inclusive, expenditure under Lands Improvement Account. Total Net Expenditure. Description of Services. to 31st March, 1892. 1892-93. 1893-94. 1894-95. 1897-98. 1898-99. 1899-1900. 190O-1. 1901-2 1902-3. 1895-96. 1896-97. Immigration £ 2,145,968 £ 242 £ 343 £ 101 Cr. 10 £ 301 £ 70 £ 105 £ 385 £ 214 £ 139 £ 142 Public Works (Departmental) 359.965 7,790 8.406 8,680 14.300 14,892 9,689 10,090 12,572 12,932 17.771 13.949 Development of Water-power Irrigation and Water-supply Railways 14.257,829 220.894 176,304 247,545 197.105 207.231 Cr. 334 351.600 374,192 417,937 717.723 1,333,940 759. 752 Payment to Midland Railway Bondholders Roads :— „ Roads North of Auckland Main Roads Miscellaneous Roads and Bridges Roads to open up Lands Grants-in-aid Village Settlements Local Bodies Roads on Goldfields Miscellaneous 229,674 11,444,910 j 630,753 799,750 40,772 785 183,759 226,411 12,588 10,443 21,989 7,144 4,412 22,235 I 58,042 22,731 I 9,972 1 ■■ 27,959 17,075 4,289 11,195 I 241,209 248,934 237,351 267,374 354,687 230,349 8,951 2,898 390 20,387 "227 21,513 207 32,578 19,490 17,57/ 49,569 46,550 48,039 48,417 47.573 51 ,690 Or, 1,613 Cr. 1.030 Or. 7,050 Cr. 573 Cr. 365 16,023 Or' 365 Cr. '365 Cr. 347 Development of Thermal Springs and Natural Scenery Roads to give Access to North Island Trunk Railway Lands Improvement Account 78,109 29,440 34.765 17^841 89,207 108,168 103,555 Total, Roads 3,634,923 103,893 146,638 150,278 174,369 167,482 290,413 295,119 285,043 315,791 402,260 282,039 Development of Goldfields 563,358 3,811 5,272 5,865 9.345 10,508 33,117 17,355 21,815 15,907 15,326 24,213 Purchase of Native Lands 1,248,876 57,187 Cr. 10,438 19,575 4,320 Cr. 2,428 78,985 349 Cr. 12 101,009 Cr. 37 61,503 53,182 Cr. 225 32,025 28.688 18,261 15.782 Native Lands Purchase Account 163,411 129,000 Total, Land Purchases 1,248,876 66,324 80,877 101,346 163,411 128,963 61,503 52,957 32,025 28,688 18,261 15.782 Telegraph Extension 634,421 29,245 16,127 19,229 35,538 36,791 29,384 28,551 26,771 50,101 31,729 68,578