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RETURN No. 7. Expenditure on Additions to Open Lines, charged to Capital Account, for the Year ended 31st March, 1907.

Total Exvienditure. laterial on hand at 31st March, 1906 Ixpenditure charged to Vote 88 by Treasury Vote 18 „ .. .... £ s. d. 5,669 0 9 308,149 19 0 3,510 10 0 Less material on hand at 31st March, 1907 317,329 9 9 8,435 12 4 Expenditure on Works, &c.— Way and Works Branch .. .. .. .. £108,050 7 8 Locomotive Branch .. .. .. .. .. 200,843 9 9 £308,893 17 5 Way and Works Bbanch : Particulars op Works, etc. Section. Work, &c. Amount. Total. Whangarei Auckland Telegraph and telephone facilities Sidings,loading-banks,stockyards, approaches, crossings,&c. Additions to station buildings Bridge-work Ballast-quarry and plant Telegraph and telephone facilities Tablet-working £ s. d. 1,163 17 3 274 11 8 I 1,762 18 6 456 12 1 615 4 11 423 7 0 £ s. d. 234 18 9 Wellington - Napier-New Plymouth 4,690 11 5 Sidings, loading-banks, stockyards, approaches, orossings, &c. Additions to station buildings Additions to dwellings Fencing Viaduct, Mangarangiora Departmental offioes, Wellington Land Telegraph and telephone facilities Signals and interlocking Tablet-working 4,015 5 4 3,024 3 0 239 9 4 126 18 10 3,523 1 6 1,510 10 0 175 0 0 844 16 5 4,079 16 8 230 16 11 Hurunui-Bluff — (ChriRtchurch District) Sidings, loading-banks,stockyards, approaches,crossings, &c. Additions to station buildings Additions to dwellings Weighbridge Purohase of land Additional works for Locomotive Department Telegraph and telephone facilities Signals and interlocking Tablet-working 992 1 3 8,110 3 0 794 18 4 226 7 1 1,957 10 0 319 13 4 23 19 3 7,729 1 11 375 3 6 17,769 18 (Dunedin District) Sidings, loading-banks, stockyards, approaches, crossinge.&c. Additions to station buildings Additions to dwellings Telegraph and telephone facilities Signals and interlocking Tablet-working 135 8 9 35,232 9 0 385 3 10 26 9 4 16,102 17 11 4,865 2 6 20,528 17 8 (Invercargill District) Sidings, loading-banks, stockyards, approaches, crossings, &c. Additions to station buildings Additions to dwellings Fencing Additional works for Locomotive Department Tablet-working 262 18 9 1,313 9 1 923 6 1 199 7 10 231 13 2 3,382 9 6 56,747 11 4 Westland 6,313 4 5 Sidings, loading-banks, stockyards, approaches, orossings, &c. Additions to station buildings Weighbridge 344 5 5 1 523 9 7 182 13 10 Nelson Pieton Furnaces for footwarmers Additions to station buildings 1,050 8 10 28 8 5 680 8 10 £108,050 7 8