PUBLIC WORKS STATEMENT.

Te Puke Times, Volume II, Issue II, 28 November 1913, Page 3

PUBLIC WORKS STATEMENT.

£50,000 FOR RAILWAY.

Wednesday. The Public Works Statement was delivered in the House last (Tuesday) night as follows :— Owing to the financial position obtaining at the close of last session, and in view of the heavy commitments alreany entered into I did not feel justified in making available sor immediate expenditure the whole of the new items appearing on the public works estimates. All authorities issued and offers made in pursuance of previous years' appropriations have however, been duly honored. As soon as the success of the new loan was assured all restrictions regarding new votes were removed. The total expenditure of the past year on public works was the largest in any single year for over thirty years, and amounted to the large sum of £2,711,068. For the current year it is proposed to provide funds as under: ' £ Balance of loan of 1911 100,000 Balance of loan of 1912 894,774 Transfer from Consoli- . dated Fund 675,000 Proposed new loan 1,750,000. The above, with the balance-£376,96s-brought forward gives a gross total of £3,796,739. The estimated expenditure for public works for the current year amounts to £2,995,575, leaving an estimated balance of L 801.164 to be carried forward to next year. The total expenditure on railway construction and improvement work during last financial year amounted to 11,179,077. THE ESTIMATES.

Public Works Depart. 64,200 Railway Construction 825,000 Additions to Open Railway Lines 500,000 Public Buildings 486,000 Lighthouses, Harbor Works and Harbor Defences 21,375 Tourist & Health Resorts 16,000 Immigration. 36,000 Construction, Maintenance and Supervision of Roads, Bridges & other Public Works 580,000 Development of Goldfields 9,300 Telegraph Extension 376,000 Contingent Defence 50,000 Lands Improvement 31,700

T't'l Public Worki Fund 2,995;575 ' VOTES FOR RAILWAY CONSTRUCTION East Coast Main Trunk Line Waihi to Tauranga £10,000 Te Maunga northwards, 2000 Tauranga to Taneatua 50,000 Gisborne-Motu, GO, 000 Napier-Gisborne, N. end 35,000 Napier-Gisborne, S. end 10,000 167,000 Other Lines Kawakawa-Hokianga 40,000 N. Auckland M. Trunk 60,000 Raetihi Main Trunk 20,000 Huntly-Awaroa 25,000 Stratford Main Trunk 85,000 South Island Main Trunk 20,000 Midland 135,000 Westport-Inangahua 20,000 Greymouth-P, Elizabeth 20,000 Catlin's-Waimahaka 30,000 MISCELLANEOUS Courthouse, Te Puke, . 500 Post Office, Paengaroa 400 Tauranga Experimental' Farm 250 Aongete Road, £ for £ 100 Carruth Road 50 Hairini Bridge and Approaches, on account of £2000, £ for £ : Kopurererua Bridge L for L £00 Omokoroa, Lfor L' 200 Oropi Gorge 100 Tahavvai Deviation L for L 100 Tauranga Road Deviation LforL Tauranga to Waihi, LI for LI Te Puna Parish, access to _ sections, to 7, LI for LI 125 Waimapu Riding Roads LI for LI 1,000 Wainui LI for LI 50 Waipapa LI for LI 50 Wairoa River Bridge 5,000 Beach Road to Otaimatua railway Station 2CO Graham Road 200 Maketu to Te Puke 100 Maketu to Waivvhakaretu 275 Matata Inland Road £ for £ 100 PapamoaNo2, 50 Pongakawa Block Access 500 Pukaingatara Block Road 100 Ake Ake Road 100 Apata Parish, access to sections 224 and 225 100 Faulkner Road 200 Harrayßoacl ' 100 Kaimai 500 Kaima, access to sections 579 to 583, Te Papa Parish 300 Komete 200 Mangatoi '500 Mangatoi Stream Bridge 200 Ngamuawahino ' 300

Ngawaro to Te Puke 7! Omanawa 50( Otawa No. 1 Road , • 25( Otawa No. 2 Road ' 50£ Puwhenua 40( Raparapahoe Stream Bridge Otawa No. 1 Road 25C Raparapahoe Stream Bridge Otawa No. 2 Road 750 Raparapahoeiti Stream Bridge. Otawa No. IRd 200 Herepuru North 500 Herepuru South 75 Kaikokopu Bridge 250 Kaikokopu to Taheke 300 Ngongotaha Valley Road 100 Kaituna 200 Korano' 100 Maniatutu 100 Pongakawa to Lake Rotoehu 225 Rangiuru to Mangorewa Gorge * 50 Waihi Swamp Road 250 Tui Road to Government Bush 50 Mangawhero td Kaimai £ for £ 100 Cambridge to Tauranga 200 LANDS IMPROVEMENT Waihi Swamp, Maketu drainage, on account 1,000 ROADS TO OPEN UP CROWN LANDS Minden Block • 500 Otawa Block • -100 Aongatete Block 100 Pongakawa Block 100 Roads to. Open up National Endowment Lands Aongatete Block 100 Kaituna Block 1,600