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Table No. 19. Table showing Cost of Constructing Telegraph and Telephone Lines during the Year ended 31st March, 1918.

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I,inc. Total Cost, including Material from Stores. Line. Total Cost, includinir, | Material ll'rom Stoics. [telephone Exchanges— Auckland Auckland (automatic) . . Coromandel Dargaville I lamillon Hamilton (automatic) Ivaikohr Ivakaki Kawhia Kohukohu Kopaki Mamaku Mangero Mangonui Matata Mount Eden (automatic) Opotiki Paeroa Patumahoe Ponsonby (automatic) .. Raurimu Remuera (automatic) Rotorua Taumarunui Taupiri Tauranga, To Kuiti Te Teko Thames Tirau Turua Waitoa Warkworth Whangarei Awakino Blenheim Blenheim (automatic) . . Carterton Courtcnay Place (automatic) Dannevirke Eketahuna Eltham Foathcsrston Peilding Gisborne Hastings . . . . Hawera Kahukura Kaitieke Levin Manakau Marton Masterton Masterton (automatio) .. NapierNew Plymouth Pabiatua .. • Palmerston North Patea Pirinoa Stratford Taihape Waikanae .. ".. Waipawa Wairoa Wanganui Wellington Wellington South (automatic) Nelson Murchison Reefton Westport Ashburton Cheviot Christchurch .. Culverden Greymouth Ha warden Kaikoura £ 17,794 5,126 37 331 17,110 226 189 596 1 135 140 208 5 1,364 10 1,049 2,908 .. • 3,240 1,267 856 16 864 181 3,991 1,969 1,268 5,036 44 84 781 2,188 12 5 1,323 701 295 130 2,653 1,407 1,305 358 2,393 2,028 4,575 7,488 1 ,879 790 2,539 407 2,312 1,567 I ,069 2,365 42 5,020 1,702 4,530 2,998 320 20 378 3,539 557 121 503 6,909 15,550 297 2,281 1 57 36 751 502 13,648 747 101 910 107 Telephone Exchanges— continued. Rakaia . . Rangiora Softon Timaru Waiau Waikari Wainiate Balclutha Cromwell Dunedin Gore Invercargill Oamaru Pukerau Queenstown Roxburgh Tapanui £ 357 372 70 1,144 87 |I,077 797 830 1,054 11,386 2,207 2,650 5,718 528 63 2,321 129 Lines — Aniwaniwa-Puketurua (metallic circuit) .. Auckland-Dargaville (metallic circuit) Auckland-Puhoi (metallic circuit) Auckland - Thames - Paoroa (metallic circuit) . . . . Ilamurana Telephone-offloe (on branch line off Tauranga-Rotorua, metallic circuit).. Helensville-Paparoa (metallic: circuit) Kirikopuni Telephone-offioe (on Tango wa-hine-Tangateroria lino) Kopaki Telephone Extension of Hamilton - To Kuiti (metallic circuit) Kopuku Telephone Extension of the MeroerMaramarua Circuit Mahurangi Telephone-office removal (on Warkworth -Mahurangi line ... Mangapuke Telephone-offioe (branch off Waihi Beach Telephone-lino) .. Netherton-Kerepehi Telephone-line Ngapaonga Telephone Extension of the Te Kuiti - Oparuo Circuit Ohaewai—Kawakawa (metallic circuit) Ohautira Telephone Extension of PukomiroWaingaro Tolephone-line Okere-Paengaroa Tolephono wire Opuatia Telephone-office (branch off the Tuakau Glen Murray line Owhiro Telephone-offioe (on Kinohaku-Owhii-i) Branoh Line from main lino Kawhia -Piopio Pukeatua—Puketurua Telephone-line Raglan - Te Akau lines . . Tahekeroa Woodcocks Telephone-line Taupiri—Komakorau Telephone-line Te Kuiti —Te Kumi .function (metallic circuit) Thames - Hauraki Plains Telephone-wire .. Waiorongoniai : Removal of telephone-office (on Te Aroha Waiorongoniai metallic circuit) .. .. Wayby : Removal of office (on WarkworthWayby lino) Gisborne-Kaiteratahi (metallic- circuit) Kopua Telephone-office (a lead off Takapau - Ormondville - Dannevirke metallic circuit) Mangahouhi Telephone-offioe (branoh line off Wanganui-TJpokonui line . '. Motuhora Telephone-offioe (on MatawaiMotu line) Pukearuhe Extension (Urenui—Pukearuhe lino Ratapiko : Removal of telephone-offioe (extension of Tariki-Ratapiko Telephone-line) Riariaki Telephone Extension (branch line from Ruatiti-Orautoha line) Tahunaroa Telephone Extension from Whangamomona to Tahunaroa <. lliwipaiigo Telephone -office (Belgrove — Gordon Downs line) £199,032 98 1,788 456 206 59 1,645 2 1 45 8 15 265 783 199 183 285 17 37 51 371 667 149 12 227 7 21 402 I 9 56 5 14 I 15 82 53 7