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Other work has included the renewal of two road bridges, construction and erection of twelve single men's huts, maintenance of all plant, machinery, buildings, flood-gates, pumping-station, water-supply installations, roads (including regrading and remetalling), attention to noxious weeds, and general care of pastures and live-stock. Expenditure and Rates Maintenance expenditure for the year amounted to £3,233, rates struck amounted to £3,366, and collections, including arrears, totalled £3,515. Net expenditure on construction work amounted to £3,796. The amount shown as expenditure on maintenance may be subject to slight variation on completion of accounts. I have, &c., E. Taylor, Chief Drainage Engineer. The Under-Secretary for Lands, Wellington. STATEMENT OF ACCOUNTS A statement of accounts is published in parliamentary paper 8.-l [Pt. IV].

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