PUBLIC WORKS ESTIMATES.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1928, 10 August 1889, Page 1

PUBLIC WORKS ESTIMATES.

Under the Public Works Estimates, the total amaunt required to be voted for. actual expenditure this year is £574,161, as against £613,939 expended last year. The several votes are as follow : iNo. 1 Account —Immigration, some small j railways, roads, telegraph's, public build- . ings, harbors, and harbor defences—- £ Immigration ... ... ... 3.830 Railways 9.330 Roads ... 145, 1 27 Waterworks on goldfields ... 700 | of Native lands ... 9 396 Telegraph extension 12,700 Public buildings 48,051 Lighthouses, harbor works, and defences 0,382 Rates on Native lands ... 8,585 Thermal springs 2,350 Charges and expenses of raising loan ... 3,084 No, 2 Account —North Island Trunk railway— , Public Works Department ... 100 Railways ... ... ... 31,000 Roads ... ... 692 Purchase of Native lands ... 1,509 No, 3 Account,—rßailways , generally, ex- ! cwpt the N.I. Trunk— . . . , Public Works' Department ... 11,060 Railways ... 600,965

The following are the Canterbury votes for the year ;—Lincoln —Litile River, for drainage of lands in \karoa railway endowment, lo be recouped to the Public Works fund ou.t of the proceeds, of the sale of the land when drained, £4530. Main roads—Nelson-Weaport, GreymouthHokitika, £5300; Hokitika to Christ-' church, £4300; 'Haast Pass track, £340. Miscellaneous roads—Christohurch■Hokitika road, construction in Bealey Valley, £713; roads to open up lands before sale to the Upper Ashley river, Kuku Pass, £238 ; road to Mount Cook and to glaciers, £SOO ; Chau bridge, £1 for £l, £BOO ; to village and deferred payment, blocks, £2OO ; miscellaneous, £399 ; publib buildings—Postal jnd teLgraph, Canterbury, £120; lunaticsUylum, Sunnyiide,! £14,000 ;, iighlhouse, Kaikoura, £IOO ; railway,' Mount Somers brapcji, £4415 ; Blenhaim-Awalare, £IO,OOO. (