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Appropriations for Public Works Services.

LANDS IMPROVEMENT —continued.

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Item ' 1927-28. MINISTER OF PUBLIC WORKS—continued. VOTE No. 64 —continued. £ £ Lands, Miscellaneous—continued. Mangawhara River improvements— 28 Little wood's Landing upwards to Tauhei Junction *1,232 29 Lower Ten-foot Drain and Henry Settlement (£1 900 for £1) 30 Tauhei Junction upwards (£1 for £2) ... 5,576 31 Mangawhero Drainage Board (subsidy, £1 for £2) ... 733 32 Matiere Township (drainage) ... ... 150 33 Motutangi Swamp, Houhora (drainage), (on ac- 500 count of £1,000) 34 No. 2 Road (Te Puke water-supply scheme), (subsidy, 526 £3 for £5) 35 Okiokinga (drainage) ... ... ... 200 36 Orahiri Drainage Board (straightening, widening, 250 and deepening stream), (£1 for £2) 37 Oraka Creek clearing (£1 for £1) ... ... 100 38 Otautau River Board (improvement of Otautau and 1,000 Opio streams), (£1 for £2) 39 Otawhao Block (water-supply) ... ... 500 40 Pastoral Run 114, Mount Potts (river erosion) ... 75 41 Pastoral Run, No. 124, Christchurch (river erosion)... 1,850 42 Piako River Stop-bank (grant to Waitoa Drainage 154 Board, &c.) 43 Piako River stop-banks (near Ngatea), (£2 for £1) ... 1,493 44 Piako River (west bank), (flood-gates) ... ... 1,450 45 Pukekohe Drainage District (subsidy, £1 for £1) ... 100 46 Rangitata River (protective works), (£1 for £2) ... 250 47 Raupo Drainage Board (internal drainage), (£1 4,000 for £1) 48. Raupo Drainage Board (improvements to " G" canal), 500 (£1 for £1) Reclamation of sand-dune and dune-areas and purchase of marram-grass— 49 Houhora-Waipapakauri ... ... ... 650 50 Iiaipara Coast ... ... ... 140 51 Kaitaia ... ... ... 500 52 Muriwai South-Kaipara Head ... ... 250 53 Waipu ... ... ... 850 54 Spottis Creek (erosion) ... ... ... 54 55 Stock-resting reserve, Run 121, Kekerangu (purchase 60 of) 56 Tahuna Drainage (grant to Tahuna Drainage Board) 250 57 Taieri Plain flood protection (half recoverable), (on 40,000 account of £150,000, £1 for £1) 58 Tauhei Drainage Board (Mangahoumia Stream im- 400 provements), (£1 for £1) 59 Te Kao (drainage), (£1 for £2) ... ... 250 60 Te Kura Settlement (water-supply) ... ... 344 61 Te Matai Settlement (water-supply), (£1 for £1) ... 3,000 62 Te Rahu Stopbank, Rangitaiki district ... ... 400 63 Thorburn's Road Bridge (Kumeti Block) ... 170 64 Tokatoka No. 3 Block (Otamatea County) ... 200 65 Tokatoka Nos. 1, 2, and 3 Blocks (Raupo Drainage 2,934 Board) 66 Tokatoka stop-bank and drainage ... ... 3,000 67 Tokatoka Stop-bank (foreshore protection), (£1 for 15,000 £1), (on account) 68 Waikato River (flooding), (£1 for £2) ... ... 100 69 Waimakariri-Ashley (water-supply), (£1 for £2) ... 500 70 Waimakariri River Trust (protective works), (£1 for 10,000 £4), (on account) * AU recoverable.