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DETAILS OF ESTIMATES FOR THE

MAINTENANCE OF PUBLIC WORKS AND SERVICES—continued

(a) Expenses of operating the Putaruru-Reporoa Railway were greater than anticipated. (b) Overexpenditure for 1947-48 and additional provision taken this year necessary to meet cost £>f removing splinter-proofing from oil-fuel tanks.

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VOTE—MAINTENANCE OF PUBLIC 1948-49. 1947-48. WORKS AND SERVICES —continued Voted. Expended. Subdivision No. IV. —Irrigation, Drainage, and River-protection and Improvement Works £ £ £ Charges foe and incidental to—continued Works not specified Irrigation works — maintenance of dams, lieadworks, races, weirs, &c., Canterbury schemes : transfer of stores from Public Works Account River protection and improvement works, Lake Ellesmere Outlet Subsidy : Washdyke Lagoon Drainage Scheme 1,000 1,000 24,500 300 41 464 34,674 300 Total —Subdivision No. IV 221,177 223,000 238,483 Subdivision No. V—Railway-lines Charges for and incidental to — Maintenance of unopened railway-lines, including wages of caretakers, materials, costs of operation of goods and passenger services, damages and compensation, hire of wagons, and all other charges : miscellaneous works 30,000 28,000 (a) 41,268 Total—Subdivision No. V 30,000 28,000 41,268 Subdivision No. VI —Plant, Material, and Miscellaneous Services Charges for and incidental to — Demolition of air-raid shelters and splinterproofing, &c. Engineers Registration Act, 1924 (cost of administration, including allowance to Registrar, and fees, &c., of members of the Registration Board), (recoverable) (6)157,000 1,100 15,000 1,100 (b) 94,237 729