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TABLE H — continued. TOTAL COST of the LINES of TELEGRAPH, &c. — continued.

Section of Line. Length of Section in Miles. Cost of Clearing Bush. Total Cost of Poles, includnig Delivery. Cost of Wire, Arms, Insulators, &c, including Carriage. Cost of Erection. Total Cost of Section. Cost per Mile. £ s. d. £ s. a. £ a. d. £ s. d.| £ s. d. £ s. d. Brought forward ... Mannkau Heads Line Cambridge to Alexandra, reeonstructiou, 50 miles Maketu to Opotiki Wellington Signal Station Line and Lunatic Asylum Second Wire, Wellington to Wanganui, completed from Wanganui to Bull's, 26 miles Poverty Bay Line Kaipara and Bay of Islands Line Masterton to Waipukurau, Third Wire, 115 miles Foxton to Palmerston Fourth Wire, Wellington to Masterton, and Waipukurau to Napier, 102 miles Tokatea Line ... Thames Alteration, includind Pukorokoro Line, 9 miles Second Line, Wanganui to Hawora, 58 miles Second Wire, Wellington to Wanganui, completed from Wellington to Otaki and. Bull's to Foxton, 82 miles Fourth Wire, Waipukurau to Porangahau, 18 miles Second Wire, Wellington to Wanganui, completion of, 32 mile3 ... Ohinemutu Line Rangiriri to Mercer, reconstruction, 9 miles Hawera to New Plymouth via Mount Egmont Palmerston to Feilding ... Waiwera Line from Warkworth Wellington Pilot Station ... Third Wire, Wellington to Wanganui, 140 miles ... Wellington to Wainui, reconstruction, 127 miles Kawakawa to Mongonui ... Railway Wires, —■ Auckland to Penrose, 8 miles Waipukurau to Kopua New Plymouth to Inglewood, including loop line to Waitara 36 "54 4 107 220 "25 '"4 23 15 0 5,323 6 8 49 9 0 833 17 8 844 7 6 1,959 8 3 62 6 0 54 0 0 3,524 10 0 4,993 15 0 96 5 6 653 12 3 138 7 6 83 1 10 19 7 0 551 0 3 340 5 8 349 5 8 1,238 9 10 90 9 8 385 4 3 5,610 4 0 2,685 16 0 1,542 9 0 283 13 0 932 5 2 27 12 5 420 8 4 693 16 0 2,875 4 4 1,057 15 7 643 4 7 1,301 4 6! 34 18 6 202 16 6: 4,519 6 3 5,256 0 6! 555 6 5 1 241 10 2 677 2 5 91 5 8 811 8 3 211 16 0 1,937 6 5 2,231 18 11 1,836 17 9 4,499 2 7 187 14 2 642 0 9 13,677 15 3 18,258 18 2 2,194 0 11 1,178 15 5 1,747 15 I 201 19 11 1,281 5 7 924 19 0 5,363 11 0 61 19 11 36 14 9 83 6 4 46 18 6 24 13 10 127 1-6 7 82 15 4 19 1 6 47 3 0 17 2 8 50 9 11 142 7 3 15 18 11 65 8 2 321 17 0 216 16 3 354 7 11 893 1 2 49 12 3 "a 187 14 6 9 12 0 328 1 6 109 13 0 976 10 9 21 16 0 1,492 6 9 141 1 0 46 12 8 70 10 6 26 17 6 66 16 3 93 13 9 10 8 2 49 12 25 0 0 1,236 3 6 235 6 0 946 10 4 93 19 0 1,629 10 6 111 3 9 3,837 4 4 440 8 9 78 6 2 36 14 0 16 2 499 6 6 426 1 3 30 10 0 178 3 3 21 4 11 616 19 2 53 4 0 1,720 10 2 104 18 11 107 10 7 52 9 5 172 12 0 1,146 5 8 923 2 1 2,241 19 9 16 0 3 "53 84' 7 9 1,094 15 6 962 16 6 865 6 10 654 2 5 1,138 8 7 1,493 9 2 3,098 10 11 3,194 15 10 24 8 0 60 5 7 19 627" 5 11 33 13 11 143 1 5 43 19 6 247 18 7 77 13 5 1,018 5 11 9 14 2 53 11 10 4 88 16 11 187 19 11 233 10 7 510 7 5 127 11 10 Totals—North Island Totals—South Island 1573 1861 10,251 5 4 19,769 11 11 50,382 14 11 59,219 11 3 46,790 14 0 47,411 9 2 58,655 10 5 55,999 4 3 166,080 4 8 182,399 16 7 *105 14 2 * 98 0 2 No. 1 Cook Strait Cable, including freight from London and expenses of laying No. 2 Cook Strait Cable, including freight from London, expenses of laying, and 8J miles of spare cable, and demurrage of ship "Zealandia" Five miles spare No. 1 Cable, including freight from London 3,434 30,020 17 8 109,602 6 2| 94,202 3 2 114,654 14 8 348,480 1 3 I 1 , 29,864 0 0 13,248 6 8 2,822 4 3 Total expenditure, exclusive of lines in progress 394,414 12 2 I number of miles * Average cost pi of wire, 8,035. Tl ir mile. lis mileage of lini Total number of miles of line, 8/ 134; total in wire is exclusi'e of Canterbury Raibva; wires,