Public Works Statement.

Manawatu Herald, 23 September 1893, Page 2

Public Works Statement.

The Public "Works Statement was laid upon the table of the House on Thursday. The proposed expenditure for 1893---.94 is in Part L, £591,468, and in Part 11., £101,600) total, £093,068, which will leave an estimated balance on 31st March next of £54,560. £15,000 js to be asked for the KamoKawakawa Railway extension, £12,---000 for the Helens'ville section, £18,---000 for theThames-Te Aroha section, and £82,000 for the completion of the Eotorua Railway. £55,000 is asked for for the North Island Main Trunk Line for construction, and £4000 for surveys. £30,000 is to be spent on the Eketahuna-Woodville line, the expenditure on which last year was £8,497, with liabilities of £9,756. The other votes are : —£2500 for Blenheim-Awatere line, £12,000 to complete the Greymouth-Hokitika line, £45,000 for the utago Central to complete the Middlemarch-Hyde section, £7500 for Catlin's River line, and £15,000 for Seaward Bush line. The proposed expenditure on roads is : Main roads, £23,039 ; miscellaneous roads and bridges, and roads to open up lands before sale, £110,---487 ; grants-in-aid, £11,663 ; village settlements, £3380 ; roads to give access to Marton-Te-Awamutu railway, £40,800. A sum of £47,000 is to be asked for for roads on goldfields. The total appropriation proposed for public buildings this year is £140,---000. The votes proposed under the Public Works Fund provide £15,000 for school buildings to supplement the vote of £31,00 already appearing on the Consolidated Fund Estimates. The votes also provides for new Court-houses at Palmerston N. Otaki, Pahiatna and other places