PUBLIC WORKS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 27 July 1938, Page 5

PUBLIC WORKS

SUBSTANTIAL INCREASE IN ESTIMATES VOTE HIGHER BY £4,500,000 OVER LAST YEAR’S. FIVE MILLIONS ALLOCATED FOR MAIN HIGHWAYS. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, This Day. The Public Works Estimates tabled in the House of Representatives yesterday show the estimated amount required to be voted for the year 1938-39 in the general purposes account to be £10,119,000, as against £6,122,918 expended last year —an increase of £3,996,082. Taking into consideration the electric supply account the total vote in the Public Works Fund is £ll,675,030, as against £7,130,883 expended last year —an increase of £4,544,147. In the separate account for main highways the vote this year is £5,037,200, compared with £4,031,728 expended last year —an increase of £1,005.472. This year’s votes, in detail, compared with the amounts expended last

year, are:— 1938-39 £ 1937-38 £ Public Works, deparmental 198,000 186,954 Railways— Railways Construction 1,440,000 1,120,218 Railways improvements and additions to open lines 2,844,000 1,298,790 Public buildings 1,500,000 687,703 Education buildings 820,000 546,846 Lighthouses and harbour works 46,000 11,677 Development of tourist resorts 50,000 23,159 Roads, etc. 1,410,000 1,126,757 Telegraph extension 750,000 312,260 Lands improvement 187,000 152,001 Irrigation, water supply & drainage 140,000 71,659 Swamp land drainage 19,000 19,402 Settlement of unemployed workers 340,000 310,665 Native land settlement 375,000 254,827 Total— General Purposes A/c 10,119.000 6,122.918 Electric Supply Account 1.556.030 1.007,965 Total — Public Works Fund . 11,675,030 7,130,883 Main Highways Account (sep.) 5,037,200 4,031,728