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Immigration and Public Works Appropriations.

CLASS V.—EOADS— continued. Item. 1879-80. MINISTER FOE PUBLIC WOEKS— contd, £ s. , d. £ £ 8. d 31 VOTE No. 96— continued. Boads to open up Lands befoke Sale — continued. Wellington — Blocks V., VI., IX., X., and XIII., Kairanga Survey District, Palmerston North, 24 miles, to open 8,582 acres Blocks II., III., VI., VII., X., and XI., Mangaone District, and Blocks XIV. and XV., Mangano District, Forty-Mile Bush, 17 miles, to open 21,280 acres Sandon Township, Manawatu District, Kiwitea Block, 14 miles, to open 7,000 5,000 0 82 5,055 0 0 83 acres Blocks IV., X., and XIII., Wellington Country District, 13 miles, to open 10,000 1,400 0 0 34 acres Pahiatua and Puketoi Blocks, 20 miles, to open 50,000 acres Tokomaru Block, to open 16,500 acres ... Otamakapua Block, to open 140,000 acres Heao Block, to open 8,400 acres 1,953 3 3 35 6,000 2,000 2,000 1,000 0 0 0 0 0 0 (I 0 88 37 88 24,408 3 3 89 Marlborough — Eoad through Crown lands, Bai Valley, 8 miles, to open 6,000 acres ... 1,000 0 0 1,000 0 0 40 41 Nelson — Aorere Valley, Collingwood, 23^ miles, to open 25,000 acres Ahaura to Kopara Flat, 12 miles, to open 10,000 acres Reef ton to Maruia, Matakitaki, and Buller, 60 miles, to open 20,000 acres 4,321 3 4 42 1,781 1 10 4,000 0 0 10,102 5 2< 43 44 Canterbury — Eoad to Upper Ashley, to open 30,000 acres Drainage of Lake Ellesinere, to lay bare 20,000 acres 4,975 0 0 400 0 0 Westland — Kokatahi River to Hokitika River, 4i miles, to open 1,000 acres Mount Bonar to Poerua Eiver, 5 miles, to open 5,000 acres Mapourika Lake to Waihou Eiver, 8 miles, to open 5,000 acres Mahitahi River to Haast Eiver, 37 miles, to open 25,000 acres Wataroa and Waitangi-taona, 5 miles, to open 6,000 acres In the County of Westland ... 5,375 0 45 M 640 13 0 47 1,480 0 48 1,310 0 °i 40 4,000 0 50 1,500 0 1,000 0 0 o: 9,930 13