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Table No. 21. Return of the Cost of Maintenance of Telegraph Lines for the Year ended 31st March, 1900.

Table No. 22. Statement showing the Expenditure on, and the Cost of, Telegraph Construction during the Financial Year ended 31st March, 1900.

District. No. of Miles. Travellingexpenses of Inspectors and Linemen. Extra Labour. Value Cost of of Material Material purchased. issued from Stores. Salaries of Inspectors and Linemen. Total Cost of Maintenance. Averaga Cost per Mile. £ s. d. 1,035 19 1 1,221 2 5 709 15 4 653 5 11 589 1 5 11 0 2 69 19 8 £ s. d. 1,563 6 8 1,786 4 7 861 7 3 814 17 10 738 16 4 1,196 10 0 285 11 8 £ s. d1,185 0 1 627 19 3 237 5 0 197 11 9 601 11 1 13 7 7 181 16 8 £ s. d. 574 7 2 1,890 10 0 727 15 1 975 11 0 678 6 2 1,051 8 7 £ s. d. 2,767 0 0 2,387 0 0 1,890 0 0 1,240 0 0 1,428 0 0 £ s. d. 7,125 13 0 7,912 16 3 4,426 2 8 3,881 6 6 4,035 15 0 2,272 6 4 537 8 0 £ s. d. mckland Vellington Telson lanterbury >tago .. 'ables .. Itores .. Totals 4,290 4 0 7,246 14 4 3,044 11 5j 5,897 18 0 9,712 0 0 30,191 7 9

Line. Expenditure. Material from Stores. Total Expenditure during the Year. Telephone exchanges,— Ashburton Auckland Blenheim Christchurch Dunedin Feilding Gisborne Greymouth ... Hawera Invercargill ... Masterton ... Napier Nelson New Plymouth Oamaru Palmerston North Thames Timaru Wanganui Wellington ... £ s. 22 2 '692 5 14 9 228 12 575 17 372 14 78 9 7 3 463 1 162 2 16 18 24 13 35 13 331 12 52 8 48 12 1 5 39 15 91 15 466 11 d. 2 8 0 1 6 9 6 4 0 8 9 2 9 2 3 5 0 5 8 5 £ s. d. 68 6 8 915 14 91 51 14 li 579 16 6i 1,147 19 8J 835 5 54 150 18 5f 52 0 0 1,103 3 11 257 14 10J 109 9 71 121 14 41 131 7 5 680 2 0 92 9 34 £ s. d. 90 8 10 1,608 0 5i 66 3 1| 808 8 7| 1,723 17 2| 1,208 0 24 229 7 llf 59 3 4 1,566 4 11 419 17 6£ 126 8 4£ 146 7 6J 167 1 2 1,011 14 2 144 17 6J 48 12 5 1 7 5* 111 4 7f 523 12 3 1,781 4 8£ 0 2 51 71 9 2f 431 16 7 1,314 18 Si Total exchanges Auckland-New Plymouth ... Waipapa Whitianga-Gumtown Te Kao Opononi-Hokianga Heads Mangonui-Peria-Oruru ... Tokatea-Cabbage Bay-Coromandel Coromandel-Driving Creek-Tokatea Whakatane-Taneatua Paeroa-Paeroa Railway ... Waitara-Awakino-New Plymouth Waitara-Tikorangi Stratford-New Plymouth Sentry Hill ... - ... Eltham-Stratford Bltham-Ngaire Otakeho-Pihama . .., .... Pipiriki-Te Horo Makirikiri Ohingaiti-Mangaweka ... Mangaweka-Moawhango 3,726 3 8 245 13 7 11 6 0 5 10 24 0 8 125 5 3 362 9 5 136 16 4 38 0 2 4 11 8 9 10 10 29 12 5 4 15 7 0 0 4 16 0 13 9 0 1,687 17 8 70 13 6 29 7 8 568 10 11 8,115 18 9i 4 13 0i 45 4 5i 5 15 10| 17 12 8 51 16 2 148 7 8 10 19 0 51 6 5| 92 16 6| 66 18 5 402 5 8£ 5 16 4i 56 18 Hi 47 12 Ui84 18 lOf 638 8 5i 27 4 5J 11,842 2 5£ 250 6 7| 11 6 0 45 4 5£ 10 16 10£ 41 13 4 177 1 5 510 17 1 10 19 0 188 2 9J 38 0 2 97 8 af 76 9 3 431 18 1£ 9 17 9£ 63 18 11£ 52 8 ll| 98 7 lOf 2,326 6 1£ 97 17 1L| 29 7 8 1,085 7 6 516 16 7-