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Table B (To accompany Public Works Statement, 1886.) Summary of all Services chargeable to Public Works Loan, showing Liabilities at End of March, 1886, and the further Amounts required to be authorized for Expenditure during the Year 1886-7, and for Liabilities to exist at the End of that Year.

Item No. Class of Work or Service. Liabilities at End Of March, 18S6. Estimated Amount requirod to be voted for Expenditure during 1886-7. Estimated Amount required to be authorized to cover Expenditure during 1886-7, and also Liabilities current on 31st March, 1887. £ £ & 1 Immigration 7,000 19,200 19,200 2 General Departmental Expenses, including Cost of defending Messrs. Brogden's Claims, and Expenses of Railway Commissions 719 28,000 28,000 Railways— 3 New works —Construction and land 224,113 403,400 900,400 4 Additions to Open Railways 50,160 93,000 150,000 5 Permanent-way, Sleepers, and Rolling-stock 112,072 150,000 220,000 6 Surveys for New Lines of Railway 1,247 3,000 3,000 Total Railways 387,592 709,400 1,273,400 Roads— 7 Roads North of Auckland 32,147 34,600 34,600 8 Main Roads 14,277 24,900 32,100 9 Miscellaneous Roads and Bridges 34,881 52,600 69,000 10 Grants-in-aid under the Roads and Bridges Construction Act, including Subsidies to Local Bodies 66,884 97,000 122,000 11 Roads to open up Crown Lands 61,372 61,500 147,000 12 Improvements, Village Special Settlements 5,000 5,000 13 Roads on Goldfields 44,789 52,000 78,400 Total Roads 254,350 327,600 488,100 14 Waterworks on Goldfields 14,963 15,100 23,700 15 Purchase of Native Lands, North Island 36,455* 100,000 100,000 16 Telegraph Extension 3,700 21,700 21,700 17 Public Buildings 23,255 112,000 177,500 18 Lighthouses and Harbour Works, including Harbour Defences 164,411 127,800 140,900 19 Charges and Expenses raising Loans 30,000 30,000 20 Contingent Defence 12,500 12,500 •21 Bates on Crown Lands 35,400 35,400 Grand Totals 892,445* 1,538,700 2,350,400 ' These amounts are exclusive of £202,145 prospective liabilities inter into the question of this year's transactions. m account of Native land pun jlmses, which di tot