PUBLIC WORKS ESTIMATES.

Greymouth Evening Star, Volume XXXI, 24 October 1901, Page 3

PUBLIC WORKS ESTIMATES.

[OUR PARLIAMENTARY REPORTER.]

Wellington, October 23. The Public Works estimates were laid on the table of the House this afternoon. The following are the principal items of general interest: — Government House, Wellington furniture for and renovation of unofficial room in excess of Governor’s Salary and Allowance Act -£1,200 Library W ing Parliament building . ... ... ... ... 400 Shelving etc for same ... ... 1,350 Renovations of old buildings and furniture 2,000 Offices and laboratories for the Mines and Public Health Departments ... ... ... 2,000 Magnetic Observatory', Christchurch ... ... ... 1,000 New Magistrate’s Court House Wellington, estimated to cost £8,500 2,000 Auckland gaol ... ... ... 1,500 Wellington gaol additions etc ... 2,000 Warders’ cottages Lyttelton gaol new vote 800 New gaol Invercargill 1,000 Post and Telegraphs, and Pacific Cable, Station, Doubtless Bay (preliminary vote) ... 3,000 Wanganui Post Office, new building 6,000 Wellington Cuitoir House, estimated to cost £18,590 ... 4,000 Lunatic Asylums, Porirua ... 9,000 Seaeliff Asylum ... 9,000 Levin Industrial schools ... 4,200 Burnham additions ... ... 2,000 New building for school of deaf mutes at Sumner, estimated to cost ... 2,000 Homo for weak minded and epileptic children 1,500 School buildings (special) grants to Boards for school buildings including teachers residence 16,000 Native schools ... 4,000 Technical school buildings aad apparatus 10,000 Agricultural (Wellington) Laboratory and Office 2,000 Hospital wards for special cases at the four centres 2,000 Sanatorium for consumptives (estimated cost £10,000) ... 2,000 Lighthouse at Kiourangi Point, west coast of South Island ... 4,000 Cape Campbell, new lantern and tower 1,000 Tourist and health resorts, Rotorua, and drainage and electric works ... ... ... ... 4,000 Pukeroa and Kuiaru garden and plantations 1,000 Water supply, ditto 1,000 Additional buildings, Hanmer... 2,000 Purchase of native lands ... 30,000 Telegraph extension 40,489 Contingmt and defence arms (new rifles) 91,800 Ammunition for quick-firing guns 11,000 Camp equipments ... ... 6,000 Dnllsheds ... ... ... 7,000 Rifle ranges (including £2,000 for purchase of .land at rifle range, Pelichet Bay, Dunedin) 7,550 Submarine mining vessels ... 22,000