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Table No. 22 — continued. Statement showing the Expenditure on, and the Cost of, Telegraph Construction during the Financial Year ended 31st March, 1897 — continued.

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Line. Expenditure. aterial from Stores. fotal Expendituri during the Year. Pahiatua, Ngaturi, and Makuri Aohanga ... ... ... Mangaweka Plimmerton Worser Bay Berhampore Martinborough ... Hukanui ... ... Blenheim-Port Underwood Nelson-Wakapuaka No. 3 Birchfield Hinde's Ferry ... Kumara railway-wire Old John's Okarito Burke's Pass-Tekapo Springfieki-Bealey Woolston ... ... ... • ... Ohoka Christchurch Baceeourse Timaru ... Closeburn ... .... Orepuki-Puysegur Point Cambrian's-Beck's Lumsden-Queenstown ... '.. Oamaru—Georgetown ...-n - Mornington ... ... ' Clinton-Gore ... Hillgrove-Moeraki North-east Harbour Maori Point Opoho Bureau ... Bullendale Kurow-Otiake ... ... ... Clarksville Waikoikoi Kurow ... ... Caversham Bureau ... ... .... £ s. d. 402 1 7 9 0 0 144 11 6 12 9 8 1 12 0 1 12 0 £ s. d. 329 8 4 7 U ? 127 15 4 54 18 10 18 2 9 6 8 8 7 7 2 £ s. d. 731 9 11 16 12 8 272 6 10 67 8 6 19 14 9 8 0 8 7 7 2 0 12 6 2 14 6 4 6 3 5 19 5 71 17 6 23 18 4 2 16 3 1,002 8 7 536 6 7 326 11 0 15 14 8 14 19 7 100 19 5 5 19 0 6 12 2 3 0 0 154 2 5 1,085 17 0 65 7 7 15 0 415 5 2 39 8 4 13 6 1 10 10 4 16 19 9 35 8 10 74 12 3 6 8 10 0 7 0 0 15 10 13 10 6 0 12 6 2 14 6 2 4 0 2 2 3 5 19 5 33 19 6 23 18 4 2 16 3 190 6 6 211 19 4 150 6 5 11 14 8 14 19 7 90 16 6 5 19 0 37 18 0 812 2 1 324 7 3 176 4 7 4 0 0 10 2 11 6 12 2 3 0 0 100 15 9 690 10 10 56 19 8 15 0 213 15 0 81 1 7 8 11 0 3 14 0 15 0 14 0 3 53 6 8 395 6 2 8 8 4 201 10 2 8 6 9 4 15 1 7 9 0 16 4 9 21 8 7 74 12 3 6 8 10 0 7 0 0 15 10 13 10 6 9,082 55 5,636 1 6 5 6 4 2 13,128 8 9 22,210 10 55 6 5,636 5 3 4 .2 Cook Strait cable No. 2 ... Purchase of 40 knots cable .,, , Purchase of material, &c 14,773 13 0 22,017 15 11 27,902 1 9 Total expenditure to 31st March, 1896 36,791 8 11 734,559 12 11 /Total cost of lines I Auriv JftPfl 97 Total expenditure out of Public Works Fund to 31 st March, 1897 £771,351 1 10 £27,902 1 9