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For purchase of Native lands, North Island (exclusive of purchases under the North Island Trunk Eailway Loan), with debits amounting to £12,000 (less £11,000 which is to come in to credit from Part 11. of fund), we propose to allocate £16,000. For telegraph extension, with debits amounting to £26,070, we propose to allocate £41,100. For public buildings, with debits amounting to £120,360, we propose to allocate £212,410. For lighthouses, with debits amounting to £2,932, we propose to allocate £8,300. For harbour works, with debits amounting to £500, we propose to allocate £500. For harbour defences, with debits amounting to £130,000, we propose to allocate £130,000. For rates on Native lands, with debits amounting to £25,700, we propose to allocate £25,700. For Thermal Springs, with debits amounting to £3,500, we propose to allocate £3,500. And for charges and expenses of raising loans, with debits amounting to £8,000, we propose to allocate £20,000. Finally, for all the services under this fund, with debits (consisting of expenditure, liabilities, and engagements at 30th September last) amounting to £709,284, we propose to allocate £1,075,060.

The following table will probably show these results in a form which will be more convenient to honourable members:—

* This amount would have been required for expenses of raising sufficient loan to cover actual deficit.

PUBLIC WOEKS FUND.—PAKT 11. Coming now to Part 11. of the fund, being the portion devoted to the North Island Main Trunk Eailway, we had unexpended on the 31st March last the sum of £674,315, and on 30th September this was reduced to £615,258, with liabilities amounting to £137,474. Starting with the balance at the end of the year, namely, £674,315, the expenditure suggested by the Engineer-in-Chief, if the work is to go on vigorously from both ends during the present and next three years, is £619,800, which would leave a balance unexpended on the 31st March, 1891, of £54,515.

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Debits. Consisting of Expenditure from 31st March to 30th September, 1887, and Liabilities and Engagements at the latter Date. r Class of Works. Proposed Allocation. Immigration .. .. . • • • • • • • Public Works Departmental Services .. .. .. . .• Railways (other than those provided for under Parts II. and III, of Fund) Roads of all classes Waterworks on Goldfields Purchase of Native Lands, North Island, exclusive of purchases under the North Island Trunk Railway Loan .. .. £12,000 Less amount which is to come into credit from Part II. of Fund £11,000 £ 13,702 6,000 3,500 366,020 2,000 £ 70,720 13,000 3,500 528,330 2,000 Telegraph Extension Public Buildings Lighthouses Harbour Works .. Harbour Defences .. .. . • < • Rates on Native Lands Thermal Springs Charges and Expenses of raising Loans 1,000 26,070 120,360 2,932 500 130,000 25,700 3,500 8,000* 16,000 41,100 212,410 8,300 500 130,000 25,700 3,500 20,000 For all Services under this Fund 709,284 1,075,060 s