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Table No. 25. Table showing the Expenditure on, and the Cost of, Telegraph Construction during the Financial Year ended 31st March, 1906.

Line. Expenditure. Material from Stores. Total Cost during the Year. telephone exchanges,— Ashburton Auckland Blenheim Christchurch Dannevirke ... Dunedin Feilding Gisborne Greymouth ... Hamilton Hawera Hokitika Invercargill ... Lawrence Masterton Napier Nelson New Plymouth Oamaru Pahiatua Palmerston North Eotorua Stratford Thames Timaru Wanganui Wellington ... Westport Whangarei ... £ s. d. 36 17 1 5,512 19 9 101 10 7 2,745 3 2 70 19 8 4,244 19 4 292 10 6 179 7 2 115 1 0 50 1 6 16 3 1 11 11 10 119 11 6 57 4 6 622 7 10 817 6 6 10 8 11 77 7 10 109 3 8 40 4 2 226 14 5 26 10 10 3 15 11 218 6 10 207 0 9 247 19 7 4,516 7 1 42 12 10 22 7 3 £ s. d. 107 1 9 9,517 18 3 393 4 11 13,826 18 7 185 10 5 6,177 18 8 626 2 6 666 5 11 218 11 11 96 2 3 110 17 7 5 9 10 524 4 5 81 12 5 1,400 7 2 1,503 16 8 250 10 4 220 5 11 217 12 3 96 2 11 678 10 5 69 4 1 93 15 0 410 2 9 506 19 7 755 15 6 8,528 2 3 109 12 9 41 7 6 & S. d; 143 18 10 15,030 18 0 494 15 6 16,572 1 9 256 10 1 10,422 18 0 918 13 0 845 13 1 333 12 11 146 3 9 127 0 8 17 1 8 643 15 11 138 16 11 2,022 15 0 2,321 3 2 260 19 3 297 13 9 326 15 11 136 7 1 905 4 10 95 14 11 97 10 11 628 9 7 714 0 4 1,003 15 1 13,044 9 4 152 5 7 63 14 9 Total exchanges 20,742 15 1 47,420 4 6 68,162 19 7 Leigh-Pakiri ... Waiharara re Uku Kutarere Druanui Manawaru-Aratiatia, &c. Waingaro- Waimai re Kuiti-Mangapehi Pukekawa - Glen Murray Dpper Waiwera Moewh are-Waikiekie Pe Eauamoa - Oparau-Kawhia Kaipara Plats ... Ruarangi-W aikiekie Dngarue-Mangaroa Ponga-Hunua ... Kaurihohore Eangatiki Paterangi jrrahamsfern ... Eairini Pukenui Euntly-Ohinewai Whangarei-Aponga Whangape Kaitaia-Herekino Matangi-Tauwhare Waitoa Dtara - Waioweka Valley 0 8 0 6 14 7 7 17 6 6 15 3 17 11 7 8 4 3 5 9 0 10 19 1 5 10 11 68 8 11 21 9 10 63 18 7 56 14 7 17 13 4 17 19 7 14 18 10 13 6 6 10 19 1 6 6 2 68 8 11 142 8 11 74 16 3 210 5 7 75 14 2 120 17 7 153 19 4 5 18 10 81 3 8 481 19 10 38 18 6 12 14 2 9 17 1 77 8 8 8 12 11 34 7 11 5 18 6 55 12 8 274 19 1 195 18 11 398 17 8 24 8 11 20 4 7 28 3 7 120 19 1 10 17 8 153 11 0 58 0 10 120 17 7 17 9 44 2 2 384 19 11 17 13 0 2 18 0 13 8 59 10 0 153 19 4 4 11 1 37 1 6 96 19 11 21 5 6 9 16 2 8 13 5 17 18 8 8 12 11 11 12 9 2 0 0 33 1 8 67 1 5 15 19 1 22 15 2 3 18 6 22 11 0 207 17 8 179 19 10 398 17 8 "i 4 2 24 8 11 16 0 5 28 3 7