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Statement A.

Statement B. The distances of connections with main lines of the following offices are as under:—

Name of Office. Capital Cost of constructing Line. Apiti Ballance via Mangahao Beck's Bullendale Cardiff Crookston Epsom Halswell Hanmer Plain via Upper Waiau Perry Hukerenui Kilbirnie Kiripaka Lake Tekapo ... Maharahara Makara Makuri via Ngaturi Mangahao. (See Ballance.) Mataura Island Maungakaramea Maungatapere. (See Poroti.) Ngaturi. (See Makuri.) Nuhaka Ohiwa Peel Forest Pohangina. (See Eaumai.) Poroti via Maungatapere ... Eaumai via Pohangina The Camp Upper Waiau Perry. (See Hanmer Plain.) Waikaka Waimata Valley Wainui £ s. d. 352 18 3 325 7 4 237 19 2 117 17 3 148 10 1 130 7 5 25 0 0 36 11 11 732 11 6 309 8 6 15 17 7 210 0 0 536 6 7 227 0 11 117 14 6 731 15 3 52 6 11 309 9 10 35 0 0 277 17 11 529 17 11 578 0 0 356 8 7 121 0 0 397 7 1 286 11 9 145 9 2

Offices. Miles of I Miles of Poles. | Wire. Remarks. Apiti Ballance ... Beck's Bullendale Cardiff Crookston ... Epsom (bureau) Halswell ... Hanmer Plain Hukerenui Kilbirnie ... Kiripaka ... Lake Tekapo Maharahara Makara Makuri Mangahao... Mataura Island Maungakaramea Maungatapere Ngaturi Nuhaka Ohiwa Peel Forest Pohangina Poroti 10 8 7 4 2* 5* 10 8 3 3 5 24 71 ' 2 1 9 14 11 6 20 Nil 3 7 Nil Nil 2 4 9i 8| 13 Nil 10i Nil 13 8 8 From Fowler's. „ Pahiatua. „ Cambrian's. „ Skipper's. „ Stratford. „ Tapanui. „ Auckland. „ Christchurch. „ Culverden. „ Hikurangi. „ Wellington South „ Whangarei. „ Burke's Pass. „ Woodville. „ Wellington. „ Pahiatua. Intermediate between Pahiatua and Ballance. „ on Wyndham-Fortrose line. From Mangapai. Intermediate between Whangarei and Poroti. „ Pahiatua and Makuri. Loop on Gisborne-Wairoa line. Intermediate, Whakatane and Opotiki. From Woodbury. „ Ashhurst. „ Whangarei. Intermediate between Ashurst and Pohangina. From Dunedin. Intermediate on Hanmer Plain line. From Gore. „ Ormond. „ Duvauchelle's. 24 i 8 14 2i 3 18 Nil 1* 7 Nil Nil 1 2 9i 8f 13 Nil 1* Nil 10 8 6 Raumai The Camp... Upper Waiau Ferry Waikaka ... Waimata Valley Wainui