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TABLE H. TOTAL COST of the LINES of TELEGRAPH throughout New Zealand, and of the Cook Strait Cable.

Section of Line. Length of Section in Miles. Cost of Clearing Bush. Total Cost of Poles, including Delivery. Cost of Wire, Arms, Insulators, &c., including Carriage. Cost of Erection. Total Cost of Section. Cost per Mile. £ a. d. £ s. d. 547 2 10 £ s. d. 96 10 11 £ s. d. 262 12 7 812 15 6 469 11 0 1,720 13 3 3,760 19 0 3,661 6 0 503 12 6 800 0 0 3,808 0 0 3,019 17 9 £ s. d. 906 6 4 812 15 6 2,407 12 4 13,108 19 0 13,743 1 2 14,057 6 7 503 12 6 800 0 0 3,808 0 0 7,002 17 0 £ s. d, 37 15 3 «42 15 € 75 4 £ 69 7 C Z>63 0 7 c58 6 0 All 18 11 elOO 0 C /21 12 £ 104 10 5 Riverton to Inyercargill ... Bluff to Invercargill Inyercargill to Mataura ... Mataura to Waitaki Waitaki to Hurunui Hurunui to Nelson White's Bay Line Port Chalmers Line Christchurch to Greymouth Greymouth to Westport ... Blenheim to W roodend, reconstruction (including White's Bay Line), 194 miles Palmerston to Naseby Tokomairiro to Q.ueenstown Tokomairiro to Q.ueenstown, reconstruction, 140 miles Third Wire from Dunedin to Oamaru (including loop line to Kakaimi, 4 miles), 94 miles Christchurch to Hokitika, reconstruction, 146 miles Christchurch to Akaroa ... Nelson to Motueka Greymouth to Keefton ... Leittraeld to Waiau Invercargill to Winton ... Hokitika to Ross Kaiapoi to Rangiora Greymouth to Westport, reconstruction, 67 miles Inyercargill to Balclutha, reconstruction, 70 miles Havelock to Nelson, reconstruction, 25 miles Third Wire, Oamaru to Christchurch, 161 miles Second Wire, Christchurch to Hokitika, 146 miles ... Second and Third Wires, Hokitika to Greymouth, 60 miles Fourth Wire, Palmerston to Dunedin, 33 miles ... Reefton to Lyell Tapanui and Switzer's Line, from Clinton ... Fourth Wire, Blenheim to Christchurch (completed from Christchurch to Leithfield), 29 miles ... Naseby to Clyde Line Southbridge Line Cargill's Line from Roxburgh Geraldine Lino from Temuka Fourth and Fifth Wires, Christchurch to Bluff (completed from Christchurch to Dunedin and from Bluff to Clinton), 307 miles Christchurch to Hokitika, reconstruction, 146 miles Tokomairiro to Queenstown, reconstruction, 140 miles Greymouth to Hokitika, reconstruction, 30 miles Blenheim to Christchurch, reconstruction, 206 miles Nelson to Lyell Second Wire, Greymouth to Lyell, 82 miles 24 19 32 189 218 241 7 8 176 07 "54 140 4 50 32 50 37 14 20 8 1,229 3 3 1,951' 7 6 100 0 0 65 10 0 10 10 0 2,649 0 0 401 3 0 1,199 0 0 8,353 18 0 6,554 8 8 5,213 14 0 1,070 16 5 5,136 12 5 754 14 10 264 12 0 1,881 16 5 805 2 6 872 13 2 1,440 14 0 801 12 4 295 2 0 172 12 6 207 0 0 675 14 3 1,221 3 0 379 18 6 936 2 10 739 1 4 3,034 7 9 3,427 13 6 3,953 3 4 960'15 4 2,022 15 4 247 2 2 830 16 11 446 13 5 721 5 8 375 5 8 1,101 6 7 688 2 5 156 4 11 208 11 6 48 2 8 69 16 9 113 15 5 17 15 0 1,935 7 2 3,484 12 0 435 19 9 4,432 1 4 2,247 3 10 426 15 9 873 12 11 817 18 5 321 11 2 1,795 9 11 847 4 6 209 1 0 200 12 6 37 17 6 1,216 9 1 706 12 3 144 5 2 1,077 10 8 10,743 19 9 1,437 16 9 4,432 1 4 2,247 3 10 1,522 4 8 3,202 2 9 2,409 16 7 1,580 0 0 6,986 10 6 2,336 19 3 660 7 11 982 19 6 293 0 2 1,962 0 1 2,041 11 5 541 18 8 3,949 0 8 55 7 7 26 12 e ,r/31 13 i 16 1 C 16 3 1C 21 18 6 48 3 11 49 7 t 139 14 7 63 3 2 47 3 E 49 2 11 36 12 £ 29 5 £ 29 3 3 21 13 i 24 16 C 290 6 0 1,286 7 0 518 13 6 2,095 6 6 14 7 C 499 7 0 216 2 5 715 9 5 11 18 £ 32 3,863 3 6 15 0 0 898 5 6 335 11 3 799 15 9 212 13 10 503 11 0 563 5 1 6,064 15 9 17 1 4 189 10 £ 48 615 13 4 669 9 5 393 13 4 1,678 16 1 34 19 f 56 30 2,35110 3 649 9 2 286 9 7 3,311 11 6 353 8 0 131 17 6 632 19 9 217 6 10 418 7 1 6,296 1 6 1,220 4 0 14 8 ( 112 8 5 40 14 6 2 16 4 0 157 1 0 24 0 10 197 5 10 98 12 11 12 30 11 9 324 1 10 33 17 3 388 10 10 32 7 C 1,041 7 8 6,339 19 6 1,768 14 10 9,150 2 0 29 16 2,610 0 6 252 11 0 462 2 0 1,294 5 3 4,618 18 9 31 12 685 8 0 41 12 9 110 15 0 837 15 9 5 19 1,181 9 0 789 19 1 451 6 5 1,757 9 1 4,180 3 7 139 6 118 101 18 1 4,210 5 8 1,099 17 6 5,429 8 3 1,885 12 3 2,649 19 1 1,645 9 7 2,435 2 9 4,732 17 5 14,724 15 9 22 19 124 15 405 7 6 654 1 0 619 5 4 1,678 13 10 20 9 Carried forward ... a Purchased from Southland I ic. e Purchased from private hi U2.017 18s. lOd. for new material. Government, b Includes •m. f Purchased from C £150, purchase of Canterbury Groverr. Lyttelton line, c anient, (j Purehat Approximate CO! led from Otago ( it. d Approximate cost of poles, Jovernment; total cost includes