THE ESTIMATES

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2827, 19 July 1916, Page 6

THE ESTIMATES

FEW NEW VOTES The Public Works Estimates presented along with tho Statement consist almost entirely ot' tho repetition of unexpended old' voces. This applies especially to load votes, of which there are practically no new ones at all. Following are the principal now votes, the amount expended last year being shown in parentheses:— Railway Construction. ICaihu railway extension, J3XOOO (£12,858); Kawakawa-Hokiauga, ,£IO,OOO (£lB,liiJ'J); Aortii Auckland Main Trunk— Kiiiponni, southwards, £1000 (,£5301); Kaiwaka, northwards, <£30,000 (£40,648; Whangarei-North. Auckland Main Trunk, £50,(J1)u (iaH,32l); VVaipu Branch, £1000 (£289); Waiuku Branch, £15,000 (£20,301); Huntiy-Awaroa, £2000 (£14,590); Bast Coast Slain Trunk—Waihi-Taurauga, £10,000 (,£14,356); Tauranga-To Maunga, £10,000 (£6199); Maunganui-Taneatua, £25,000 (£41,801); Gisborne-Motu, £6000 (.£1827); Napier-Gisborne—Gisborne-Wai-roa, £20,000 (£47,316); Wairoa-Gisborne, £10,000 (£990); AYairoa-Napier, £1000; Napier-Wairoa, £20,000 (317,249); Mount Bgmont Branch, £100 (Cr. £230); Opunake Branch, £25,000 (£25,205); Stiatl'ord-Maiu Trunk—East end, £50,000 and West end, £2,000 (£71,626); ltaetihi-Main Trunk, £15,000 (£20,314); Stono CJuarry line, Rangitikei River, £100; Feather.ston-Alartinborough, £100; South Island Main Trunk, £10,000 (£13,692); Midland-Nelson end, £8000 (£8382); Reel'ton end, £100 (£196); Otira-Bealey, £00,000' (£74,173)1 Broken River to Bealey, £1000 (Cr. £576); Westport-Inangahua, £200 (£9034); Greymouth-Point Elizabeth, £100 (£76); Cuiverden-Wai'au, £20,000 (£9653); Waimato Branch extension, £2000 (£9385); Lawrence-Roxburgh, £500 (£1000); Otago Central, £15,000 (£14,584); Bal-clutha-Tuapeka Mouth, £200 (£41); Cat-liu's-Waimahaka, £200 (£1223); WintonHeddou Bush, £6000; Orepuki-Waiau extension, £1200 (£5713); land claims, damages or losses on goods in transit, and other liabilities, £1000 (£283); surveys, new lines of railway, £2000 (£1613); per-manent-way materials, £70,200 (£57,846). Additions to Open Lines. Way and Worts Branch—North Island Main lines and branches, £60,750 (£43,783); South Island • main lines and branches, £16,200 (£14,868); Whangarei (section (£43); Qisborno section, £6500 (£113); Nelson section, £150 (£3B9)Picton section, £6100 (£59); interlocking signal gear, fixed signals, tablet installation, telegraphs, and telephones, £10,000 (£11,616); locomotive, branch—rollingstock, £240,000 (£316,725); workshops machinery, £10,000 (£13,826). Public Buildings. Parliament Buildings—New buildings and alterations to grounds (on account), £oo,ooil (£16,602/; alterations to . streets surrounding grounds,' £400 (£531); Parliamentary Library, . temporary Parliament Buildings Additions), £450. PuTnic Works Workshop, Wellington (machinery), £900; magazine at Greymouth, £750; Gaol at Templeton, £5000 (£2157); Waikerie Prison, £6000 (£8499) ; Wellington Prison (Point Halswell), £3000 (£699); Wellington Police Training Depot, £4000; Eastbourne Police Station, £850; Wellington, new Police Station in 'Johnston Street (on account), £30,000 (the amount expended last yew was £9520, and against this year's vote there is a liability of £28,776); Wellington Polioe Station, Taranaki Street, £1850 (£7302 was expended last year, and tho liability is £600); Dannevirke Post Office, £1000; Dunedin G.PX). (revoted), £40,000; Heretaunga P. 0., £850; IChandallah Telephone Exchange, £600; Palmerston, messenger's residence, £600; I'etone Post Office, sanitary service, £120; Wellington Telephone Exchange (revoted), £6000; buildings at Ruakura Farm, £1500; at Wcreroa, £1400 (£399); Porirua Mental Hospital, £13,700 (£17,518); Seacliff, £10,800 (£6721); Sunnyside, £38,200 (£15,157). For Education. Grants to Education Boards.—For school buildings, £98,000 (£48,422); for training oolleges, £1000 (£6OS2); for technical schools, £16,000 (£7109); grants to secondary schools, £$000 (£6489); to university colleges, £5000 (£8225); to Auckland University College on account new site (re-voted i. £1000; Otetaike Home £5500 (£12.515); Native schools, £5450 (£2443); industrial schools. £1000 (£1323); special school for girls, £500 (£5364). Workers' Dwellings. Land, £1000 (£3123); road formation, £2000 (£1704); erection of dwellings, £47,000 (£51,066). . Tourist Resorts. Mount Cook Hermitage, £1500 (£450); Mount Cook Hermitage, fencing, outbuildings, etc., £750 (£1608);' Ifotorua drainago works and water supply (on account), £1000 (£l7). Roads and Bridges. Waiwakaiho River Bridge, £975; Alioroa Road £150; Somes Island Road, £100; Wainui River Bridge, £400; Aorerc River Bridge (Nelson), £200; Tiratit Block Roading, £1000; Pouwhakarua Block Roading, £3QO; Upper Gorge Block Roading, £1750; Wiiitutumu Block, Featherston, £100; Rainy River South Block (Nelson), £500; Blackwater South Block (Murchison), £200; Mole Block (Murchison), £500; Slips Block (MurchiiSon), £800; Waitapu Block (Takaka), £250; Okare Block (Buller), £1250. Miscellaneous. Kumara water-race extension across Teramakau River, £2500; drill sheds, mobilisation stores, etc., £2-1,000 (£20,969); railways improvement, £200,000 (£139,754); Lake Coleridge scheme, £54,000 (£55,159); telegraph and telephone lines, £300,000.