NEW ZEALAND GOVERNMENT RAILWAY WORKSHOPS (RETURN OF COST OF).

Appendix to the Journals of the House of Representatives, 1929 Session I, D-04

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NEW ZEALAND GOVERNMENT RAILWAY WORKSHOPS (RETURN OF COST OF).

Return to an Order of the House of Representatives dated 7th August, 1929. Ordered, "That there be laid before this House a return showing — (1) The aggregate cost of all the railway workshops, including equipment, recently erected in the Dominion; (2) the separate cost of each workshop respectively ; and (3) the cost of construction or reconstruction recently of the Newmarket Workshop."—(Colonel McDonald.)

Return. 1. The estimated aggregate cost of reorganization of the railway workshops, including the equipment, is £2,279,459. 2. The separate cost of each workshop is as follows :— £ Otahuhu . . .. .. 586,554 Hutt .. .. .. .. 777,912 Addington .. 387,419 Hillside .. .. .. . ■ . 495,385 East Town .. .. .. 32,189 3. The Newmarket Workshops have not been recently constructed or reconstructed. The workshops at Otahuhu have been constructed to take the place of the old Newmarket Workshops. H. H. Steeling, General Manager. 16th August, 1929.

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