PUBLIC WORKS

New Zealand Times, Volume XLII, Issue 9789, 12 October 1917, Page 8

PUBLIC WORKS

ESTIMATES BEFORE PARLIAMENT

WORKS PROPOSED FOR THE COMIMG YEAR. The Public Works Estimates for the year ending March 31st, 1918. were laid on tho table of the House of Representatives yesterday by the Hou. W. Fraser (Minister for Public Works). A summary of tho principal works is as follows: PUBLIC WORKS FUND. Estimated Amount required to be voted. , .£ Public Works, Departmental '135,000 Railways— Railway Construction. £400,000 Additions to Open Lines £250,000 Public Buildings 310,000 Lighthouses, Harbour Works, and .Harbour. Defences 7,765 Tourist and Health Resorts 5£69 Immigration ; 7,500 Construction, Maintenance, and Supervision of Roads, Bridges, and other Public Works 410.000 Development of Mining o 1.450 Telegraph Extension . -®9’{S9 Contingent Defencd IbWO Lands Improvement - “,wu Irrigation and Water Supply ... 30.000 Plant, Material, and Stores 15,000 Services not provided for Total—Public Works Fund... 1,881,715 Railways improvement Authorisation Act, 1914. Account. £200.000. Aid to Water-power Works Account, Waihou°and OUnemuri Rivers Improve, ment Account. £20.000. Water-Supply Aecouul, DSTN Items of interest from, the Estimates as roncorning Wellington district aro a3 rr"s^ r V>,p. head of public buildings • U d^atc t of £I2OO ter additional land a* Alount Coof-|o/,° and £2500 on ac stations, there is a vote of ter the (police training depot, for pnrchase of a property Brooklyn, XbS.OUU for the new Johnston street buildings ((£17,369 expended 1916-17 and £12,401 lability till March 31st. 1917), Island Bay £IOOO Karori £IOOO. Kelbum (site and building) £9OO, Mount Cook (sergeant’s residence) £7OO, Seatoun (site and building) £IOOO. In connection with post and telegraph buildings there is A rote of lor additions to the G.P.0., Wellington, Hataitai £750. Island .Bay ( 6lte and building) £IOOO, Karon (on account) £250. Kelburn (telephone exchange) £IOOO, parcel post building, .Wellington (on account) £SOOO, Wellington boutn (additions for telephone exchange) £IOO, store, buildings, and yards, Wellington, £3850; Telephone Exchange. Wellington, £6000; Te Aro (additions for de■partmonlal offices) £ISOO, Wadestown < o k a ero°is nt l rote-of £550 for bull shod and yards at Somes Island. £SOO is proposed to he voted for additional buildings at Wergroa. In connection with the Ponrua Men. tal Hospital £11.722 was expended last (year, and £BOOO is set down as a vote for tho coming year. £350- is to be voted for St. Helens Home, Wellington, , and ,£BOOO for the Otaki Sanatorium. , , , . The total amount voted for roads in tlio Wellington district is was expended last year, and -£-10,300 Voted. EDUCATION DEPARTMENT. Votes proposed this year for school buildings, additions .to same, school fittings, furniture, etc., are;—Public schools, £75,000; training colleges, J 213 000: technical schools, .£20,000; second’ary schools. £6000; universities, £6000; grant to. University College, Auckland, for new site and building (on account of £30.000). nil (fIOOO iras voted last year); native schools, £5000; school for the deaf, Sumner, £SO; special schools for the feeble-minded. £6500; industrial schools, £9200; probation and receiving homes, £14,600; free kindergartens. £1700; total, £1*6,100; (total required for current year, ,£100,000..- , - , , ~ >£4oo .is voted for the accommodation of Government departments at the Central Police Station, Johns ton street; (£I7OO for passenger elevator at dopertinehtal buildings; £2OOO for the Dominion Museum (on account); £2OOO for additions tor the Government Printing Offices; £SOOO for uerw fireproof departmental! buildings (on aooount); and £llOO for public works workshop. In the land for settlement account .£14,183 is voted for roalds in the Weliingfcon road district. . ■ £6647 is voted for the construction, maintenance and ■ supervision of _ roads and bridges in tho Wellington district.’ £20,000 is proposed to be voted for workers’ dwellings, £35,437 being voted last year. £SOO is voted for improved farm eettlement in the Wellington district. HOSPITAL AND CHARITABLE AID. Proposed votes for hospital -and charitable aid institutions are Auckland, .St. Helens, £10,000; OhristcTiutrch, tit. Helens (site, and new building), £11,000; Dunedin, St. Helens, £8000; Gisborne, TOwnley St. Helens, £2500; Invercargill, tSt. Helens, £6000; Otafci Sanatorium, £BOOO- Rotorua Infectious Diseases Hospital, £750; Waikato Sanatorium, £10,000; Wellington St. Helens, £350; Wcdtpont, £100; grants to hospital boairds for accommocHaition for con•'.um.ptives. £1500; other hospital expenditure, £2OO. Total, £58,400. Total required for current year, £IO,OOO.