MAKING ROADS.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1860, 20 September 1913, Page 7

MAKING ROADS.

•HALF 'A' MIMON STERLING 'A YEAR As indication of the importance of roads and of. the large sum' expended in their construction and upkeep is given ,in a return presented 'to tfie House of Representatives yesterday, on the motion of Mr, J. 0. Thomson (Wallace). ' This return shows the amounts allocated and expended in each road idistriot for the year ending March 81, 191.3. The grand total allocated for all descriptions of roads waß £1,070,958, of which £471,501 was spent. _ The amounts voted and spent in the different classes are shown as follows, the expenditure being placed in parentheses i Road votes, £529,500 (£209,137); backblock roads, £301,575 (£128,448) j Toads on goldfields, £74,416 (£36,761); opening up Crown lands, £100,000 (£47,951); National Endowment Account, £19,200 (£2689); maintenance, £42,000 '(£42,248); Lands' for Settlement Account, £4267 (£4267). The principal districts faTed as follows, the expenditure again being given in parentheses:—Auckland, £193,279 (£73,576); Wellington, £61,201 (£18,631); Christchurch, £28,693 (£16,522) j Dunedin, £53,070 (£14,270); Gishorne, £94,957 (£49,371);. New Plyjnouth, £64,160 (£47,719); Wanganui, '£78,400 (£42,625); Napier, £22,503 (£17,486); Whangarei, £60,620 (£23,192); Tauranga, £32,335 (£14,522).