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FINANCE The payments and receipts in connection with the Public Works Account and other associated votes and accounts for the year 1949-50 are shown in the tabulation following.

The expenditure administered through the Ministry of Works for the year reached a total of £31,660,165. In addition, a sum of £4,564,603 was expended from the Public Works Account by other Departments — i.e., £2,228,091 Forest Development and £2,336,512 on Education Buildings. The miscellaneous receipts and recoveries by the Ministry of Works amounted to £8,737,978.

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Class of Work. ! Expenditure 1949-50. Expenditure, Public Works Account £ Railway construction 365,087 Housing construction 10,709,616 Public buildings 1,096,958 Education buildings 2,336,512 Lighthouses and harbour works 20,238 Roads 464,649 Soil conservation and rivers control 602,193 Irrigation, water-supply, and drainage 283,756 Highways construction 2,342,139 Forest development 2,228,091 20,449,239 Electric Supply Account: Construction (Ministry of Works) 3,887,046 24,336,285 Expenditure, Other Votes and Accounts Consolidated Fund — Highways— Maintenance, repairs, and renewals 3,275,640 Administration, plant, and miscellaneous expenditure 528,160 Permanent appropriations (rate subsidies, &c.) 336,212 Salaries and expenses, Ministry of Works 1,249,238 Maintenance, public buildings, roads, &c. 983,932 Plant, material, and miscellaneous services 5,478,620 Other accounts (expenditure by Ministry of Works): Amounts not 36,681 included above Total, other Votes and accounts 11,888,483 Grand total of expenditure, Public Works Account and other votes and 36,224,768 accounts, for the year ended 31st March, 1950