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No. 11.-TELEGRAPH EXTENSION. RETURN showing the AMOUNT EXPENDED for TELEGRAPH PURPOSES out of PUBLIC WORKS and GENERAL PURPOSES LOANS, from the 1st July, 1873, to the 30th June, 1874.

No. of Miles Poles. No. of Miles Wire. I Locality. Amount. 36 5° 5° 54 36 270 5° 5° 54 26 Manukau Line* Grahamstown to Napier, third wire* Poverty Bay Line, completed to Wairoa ... Cambridge to Alexandra, reconstruction Maketu to Opotiki Wellington to Wanganui, second wire completed from Wanganui to Bull's Palmerston to Dunedin, fourth wire Tapanui to Switzers Line Reefton to Lyell' Christchurch to Blenheim, fourth wire completed to Leithfleld £ s. d. 1,419 1 2 5,065 10 o 6,713 7 8 1,836 17 9 4.499 2 7 48 32 33 48 32 29 642 o 9 5 6 3 5 « 1,678 16 1 6,064 15 9 418 7 1 33 35 8 RAILWAY WIRES. Dunedin to Tokomairiro Hampden to Waitaki ... Auckland to Penrose 858 4 9 392 4 2 77 13 5 270 704 New Stations, also sundry material lying in stock, and expenditure on Lines in course of construction not yet brought to charge 30,229 6 3 4,213 12 I 270 704 34,442 18 4 Summary of Telegraph Expendittth: out of Pun: ,ic Works iOAN. ilM. Period. Amount. Poles. Wire. To 30th. June, 1872 ,. 1873 Year, 1873-74 801 170 270 1,260 559 704 £ s. d. 58,297 8 9 32.998 3 3 34,442 18 4 Totals 125.738 10 4 1,241 2.523 * In course of constri iction last rcar.