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Statement of Expenditure on All Works and Services Chargeable to the Public Works Account for the Year 1948-49

Note. —This statement includes only tlie expenditure on works, and does not include expenditure such as interest, sinking funds, and charges and expenses of loans. J. W. Scott, A.R.A.N.Z., Chief Accountant. E. E. McKillop, M.1.C.E., Permanent Head. The Statement of Expenditure charged to the Public Works Account has been examined and found correct.—J. P. Rutherford, Controller and Auditor-General.

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1 Appropriation. Expenditure. Railway construction £ 380,000 1 £ 128,724 s. 16 d. 9 Housing construction 8,010,954 8,886,321 15 0 Public buildings 1,500,000 1,080,463 4 6 Education buildings 1,395,000 1,650,395 10 8 Lighthouses and harbour-works .. 25,000 8,111 1 4 Roads, &c. 460,000 405,653 14 7 Soil conservation and rivers control 450,000 464,941 14 5 Irrigation, water-supply, and drainage 370,000 286,110 4 11 Highways construction 1,900,000 2,005,569 4 6 Forest development 1,812,400 1.423,838 17 7 Christmas Island phosphate rights 1,500,000 1,375,000 0 0 Totals 17,803,354 1 17,715,130 4 3