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Table I. CASH VALUE of Shipping Telegrams and Amounts chargeable to each Department of the General Government for Telegrams transmitted during the Year ended 30th June, 1874.

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Section of Lino. Length of Section in Miles. Cost of Clearing Bush. Total Cost of Poles for Section, including Delivery. Cost of Wire, Arms, Insulators, &c, including Carriage. Cost of Erection. Total Cost of Section. Cost per Mile. £ s. d. £ »- d. £ s. d. £ s. d. £ »■ d. £ s. d. Brought forward tauranga to Kati Kati Cati Kati to Grahamstown Lhird Wire, from Auckland to Mercer, 40 miles -bird Wire, from Auckland to Grahamstown, 76 miles .hird Wire, from Wellington to Masterton, 60 miles, and from Napier to Waipukurau, 42 miles Grahamstown to Coromandel . atea to New Plymouth, 90 miles, less 28 miles not yet erected ... )nehunga to Junction, reconstruction, 5 miles -bird Wire, Napier to Grahamstown, 270 miles .lanukau Heads Lino ... .ambridgo to Alexandra, reconstruction, 50 miles ... ilakctu to Opotiki Vellington Signal Station Line and Lunatic Asylums lecond Wire, Wellington to Wanganui, completed from Wanganui to Bull's, 26 miles tailway Wires, — Auckland to Penrose, 8 miles,.. 30 62 801 30 43 i,553 5 8 1,584 1 3 1,108 13 6 22,581 15 11 1,041 3 o 2,521 19 5 173 1 6 146 17 6 605 6 3 4,026 17 10 40 5 o 15,888 18 8 530 5 9 1,461 8 6 234 o 9 816 9 7 188 17 2 414 6 9 i,i44 11 3 460 2i,9S3 9 8 1,266 O IO 1,482 15 3 383 18 S 1,136 6 11 1,020 11 10 2,076 12 o 2,002 5 9 36 19 10 6i,977 9 11 2,837 9 7 7,050 4 5 617 19 2 2,125 18 o 1,356 6 6 4,204 18 6 7,i73 14 10 81 IO IO 94 11 8 163 19 2 IS 9 o 27 19 S 13 S 10 140 3 3 115 14 1* 16 6 2 "36 37 18 8 833 17 8 3,680 10 4 34o 5 8 1,844 11 4 1,057 15 7 S,S63 o 4 2,231 18 11 20 12 o 61 19 11 54 844 7 6 1,959 8 3 349 S 8 1,238 9 10 643 4 7 1,301 4 6 1,836 17 9 4,499 2 7 ..6 14 9 83 6 4 4 62 6 o 90 9 8 34 18 6 187 14 2 46 18 6 54 o o 38S 4 3 202 16 6 642 o 9 24 13 10 33 13 11 43 19 6 77 13 5 9 14 2 Totals, North Island Totals, South Island 1,060 1,470 4,246 o 5 10,269 17 3 i4,5iS 17 8 34,929 4 6 40,774 8 5 26,801 3 9 25,784 8 10 36,487 11 o 4o,437 18 7 102,463 19 8 117,266 13 1 96 13 3 79 i5 5 '00k Strait Cable, including freight from London and expense of laying 2,530 75,703 12 11 52,585 12 7 76,925 9 7 219,730 12 9 29,864 o o 'otal expenditure (exclusive of lines in progress) 249,594 12 9 Total number o: * This cost per mile incl f miles of Line, 2,530. Total ludes poles and material for p< number of mil. .rtion of line (2I •a of Wire, 5,182. S miles) yet to be erected.

Colonial Secretary Crown Lancia Customs Defence Judicial Marino Native Postal Public Worts Kegistrar-G-eneral Registrar of Land Treasury Shipping £ s. d. 1,500 6 o 101 1 o 353 9 o 1,186 17 o 77i 4 o 13 12 o 2,111 3 o 1.57i S o 2,786 3 6 179 13 o 49 7 o 689 11 o 1,305 o o £12,618 11 6

Total Cost of the Lines of Telegraph, &c. — continued.