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anticipated that requirements, at any rate for some few years to come, will be confined to the construction of huts and smaller movable buildings as may be required for the establishment of farm colonies and camps. Summarized hereunder is a statement of the classes of work on which expenditure was made last year :— £ Erection and extensions? of prison buildings .. .. .. .. 1,791 Water-supply and sanitary drainage .. .. .. .. .. 612 Erection of cottages and officers'quarters .. ... .. .. 2,460 Formation of access road .. . . .. .. .. .. 747 Purchase of farm lands and erection of farm buildings . . .. .. 894 Estuary farm reclamation .. .. .. .. .. .. 1,399 Additions to quarry and laundry plants .. .. .. .. 302 8,205 Transfer to Lands for Settlement Account for farming areas acquired in previous years .. .. .. .. .. .. 10,625 Total gross expenditure .. .. .. .. £18,830 Estimated expenditure for the year ending 31st March, 1931, will, on account of the need for economy, be limited to the total sum of £13,500. The following is a summary of the principal works involving expenditure from Public Works Fund that were carried out during the past year. Expenditure at Auckland Prison was limited to a minor alteration to the quarry crusher plant towards the close of the year, the whole involving an expenditure of £145. At the Waikeria Borstal Institution the installation of a sanitary drainage system was commenced, and nearly completed at the 31st March. This meets a long-felt requirement from a hygienic point of view. At the Rangipo Prison Camp a building was erected to provide an association room for inmates and drying facilities for prisoners' clothing. Work at the Wi Tako Prison was confined to the erection of a wool-shed from a dismantled building from the recently demolished Terrace Prison. Progress has also been made in connection with the installation of a high-pressure water-supply for the institution. In Wellington the end of the year saw the erection of seven officers' cottages at Mount Crawford nearly completed, one of these cottages being secured from the Wellington Education Board, and re-erected at a total cost of £200. Other work at Mount Crawford included the completion of the formation of the road access to the prison. This road, being of an easy gradient and a more direct route, will result in a considerable economy in transport costs. The new Wellington Prison is now almost finished, and besides embodying up-to-date ideas for lighting, sanitation, and arrangements for the general welfare of the inmates, as a trial and remand prison it has special facilities for the classification of prisoners on modern lines. Work at the Paparua Prison was confined to certain additions to the quarry plant, the completion of the exercise yards, and to the renovation of farm buildings recently acquired with an additional area of land purchased for farming purposes. At the Invercargill Borstal Institution the only major work was the estuary land reclamation. The dredging-work is now practically completed, and the reclamation will involve a minimum of cash expenditure in future, the work being confined mainly to inmates' labour after a main access road on to the farm has been metalled, and to the maintenance of the protective works which is likely to be an increasing quantity as the fascine work decays or is displaced by storms. Police-stations. The capital expenditure on police-stations for the year amounted to £8,442 out of an allocation of £10,000. The additions to the Auckland Central Police-station were completed, a new police-station was erected at Eastbourne, additional office accommodation was provided at Stratford, and the purchase of the [site and building used as a police-station at Ruatorea was finalized. Contracts have been letTfor the erection of police-stations at Culverden. Cromwell, and Palmerston South to replace buildings which are beyond repair.