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PUBLIC WORKS DEPARTMENT. NATIONAL DEVELOPMENT ACCOUNT (PUBLIC WORKS FUND). Income and Expenditure on Capital Account for the Year ended 31st March, 1924. Construction and Improvement of Roads. Expenditure. £ s. d. I Income. £ s. d. To Expenditure on roads, bridges, &c., By Recoveries on account of expenditure including subsidies to local j of previous years — bodies— Auckland Road District .. 175 8 10 Whangarei Road District .. 95,531 12 9 Wellington Road District .. 12 5 0 Auckland Road District 142,224 6 11 Greymouth Road District .. 1,500 0 0 Tauranga Road District .. 25,530 11 10 Gisborne Road District .. 80,866 8 2 1,687 13 10 Taumarunui Road District .. 62,243 14 10 Balance, being excess of capital exStratford Road District.. .. 111,819 14 8 penditure over capital income on Napier Road District .. .. 19,993 10 5 roads, &c., transferred to— Wellington Road District .. 82,298 0 5 National Develop- £ s. d. Nelson Road District .. .. 27,601 3 7 ment Account .. 781,922 5 5 Greymouth Road District .. 32,759 9 1 Roadmen's huts, &c. 230 16 2 Christchurch Road District .. 15,545 111 782,153 1 7 Dunedin Road District .. .. 17,087 14 7 Invercargill Road District .. 19,698 10 11 733,200 0 1 Compensation for injuries .. .. 1,578 0 0 Advertising tenders, &c. . . 145 9 2 Engineering surveys .. . . 984 6 3 Roadmen's huts, &c. . ■ 230 16 2 Subsidies under section 276, Native Land Act .. .. .. 19 9 2 Expenditure under section 16 (1), Native Land Amendment and Native Land Claims Adjustment Act, 1923 .. .. .. 4,500 0 0 Reinstatement of works damaged by floods (portion chargeable to capital) .. .- 43,182 14 7 £783,840 15 5 £783,840 15 5 Roads and Other Works on Goldfields and Mineral Lands. Expenditure. £ s. d. Income. £ s. d. To Net expenditure on construction of By Balance, being excess of capital exroads, tramways, and tracks in penditure over capital income for mining districts, on prospecting- j year on goldfields, roads, &c., transtracks, and on general works— ! ferred to National Development Auckland District .. .. 759 14 2 Account .. .. .. 3,074 13 9 Nelson District • .. . . . . 435 7 9 Greymouth District . 1, 248 14 4 Invercargill District . . . . 630 17 6 £3,074 13 9 £3,074 13 9

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