PROVINCIAL PUBLIC WORKS.
A gazette was published yesterday containing matter of great importance. It is the proposed plan for the apportionment of the Auckland share of the loan, as prepared and adopted by the Provincial Executive for submission to the General Government and the Legislature. It assumes that £1,000,000 will fall to the lot of our province, and the scheme proposed embraces railway from Mercer to the Waikato Delta, £250,000; railway connecting Kaipara with Auckland, £60,000; supplying water and purchasing auriferous land at the Thames, £90,000 ; roads and purchase of lands in the North, £150,000; introducing immigrants, £100,000; to be lent for harbour works and supplying water in the city, £150,000; and a sum of £200,000, to be reserved for making a railway between Waikato and the Thames.
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Auckland Star, Volume II, Issue 11, 30 August 1871, Page 2
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128PROVINCIAL PUBLIC WORKS. Auckland Star, Volume II, Issue 11, 30 August 1871, Page 2
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