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PUBLIC BUILDINGS, NEW ZEALAND. 4. —APPROXIMATE Classified Table of the Public Buildings and Offices of the Colony (including Principal Outbuildings and Dependencies); showing also School Buildings and Residences; but exclusive of Railway Buildings. Note. —See under "List of Buildings" in report of Engineer-in-Charge, 31st March, 1890. SUMMARY.

Col. 1. The mansions only are counted as main buildings ; the lodges, stables, guardhouses, &e., as accessories. Col. 2. Special buildings are—Admiralty House, Auckland; Parliament Houses, three ministerial residences (Premier's residence is not Crown property), Colonial Museum, Museum House, and new Government Printing Office (old printing office is not Crown property), Wellington. Col. 3. In the cities and larger towns a number of public offices for different departments are grouped in one large block. Where this is the case, the building has been classed in this column, and the various departments have not been again credited under their own headings with such of their offices as are included in these blocks. Col. 4. The figures hereundor do not include only the actual courthouses. Where there is a residence, the property of the Crown, attached, it has been counted arid added in as a separate main building. Col. 5. Police gaols as well as larger gaols are included in these figures. The dependencies are gaolers' and warders' residences and cottages, &c. The temporary prisons on the harbour defence-works at Auckland, Wellington, L} 7ttelton, and Dunedin are not counted in under gaols, but under column 14. Col. 6. The figures hereunder do not include only the actual police stations. Where there are detached quarters or cottages, the property of the Crown, occupied by the police on the station, they are counted in as separate main buildings. The outbuildings and dependencies are lock-ups, stables, forage-stores, &c. Col. 7. Customhouses are as often as not located in departmental blocks (see column 3 above). The figures hereundor show, therefore, only those customhouses which are separate public buildings. One or two of them haye residences attached, counted in as main buildings. Col. 8. Tho figures hereunder do not include only the actual postal and telegraph offices. Where there are detached quarters or residences, the property of the Crown, occupied by the Postmaster or his staff, they are-counted in as separate main buildings. The dependencies are stores, stables, &a. Post offices, &c, in railway buildings are not included.

NOTES. Gol. 9. Auxiliary asylums are counted in as separate asylums. The dependencies are attendants' cottages, stores, workshops, laundries, Medical Superintendents' residences, &c. Col. 10. Motuiti Island, Somes Island, Quail Island, Goat Islands. The figures indicate the number of separate main buildings at each. Col. 11. All immigration barracks, except those at Addington. Caversham, and Invercargill, have been or are in process of being handed over to local bodies or otherwise disposed of, and can, therefore, hardly be ranked as public buildings. Col. 12. There are 32 lighthouses and 74 dwellings, &c, shown under main buildings. The lighthouses are—Auckland, 8 ; Hawke's Bay, 2 ; Taranaki, 1; Wellington, 2 ; Marlborough, 4 ; Nelson, 4 ; Westland, 1; Canterbury, 2 ; Otago, 8. Col. 13. The buildings included under this head are magazines and barracks. The dependencies are ma,gazine-keepers, cottages, residences at Mount Cook Depot, &c. The drill-sheds for Volunteer purposes throughout the colony are not counted in at all, as the Crown's rights are not proprietary. The Crown has subsidised drill-sheds to the amount-of about ±9,000. Col. 14. There are included uncler this head buildings acquired along with lands purchased for defence purposes, omsers'jjugjrters^tletiiched.living barracks as apart from casemates in the forts, and sheds, stores, &c, of the submarine-mining depots" The dependencies are larger sheds, stores, &0., of the construction department. Casemate}?partillery-stor.es, &c, which are really parts of the fort, are not counted in. Col. 15. These are some miscellaneous buildings, such as Survey quarters, Public Works quarters, "Water-race ~ Managers' houses, Native chiefs' cottages, Mines Department buildings, &c, and other undejined smaller buildings, in the various districts. Cols. 16, 17, 18, 19. Thcs&figures give the numbers of schools, ordinary and Native ; also the number of residences.

It should be specially noted that the residences are not always separate from the schools, and in a great many cases are under the same roofs. The Education Department cannot supply the number of residences which are actually separate buildings from the schools without considerable inquiry. It must not, therefore, be taken that tkere are 429 schools and 281 residences in the North Island, making 710 different buildings; but that there are 429 schools, and that 281 of these have residences attached to them, but whether under the same roof or separate is not indicated by the figures. Neither a,re outbuildings and dependencies given, as there is not sufficient information to hand. Education districts do not march with provincial districts, and, therefore, for the purposes of this return, cannot be subdivided further than into North Island and South Island. General Notes. Hospitals are not included : the Government largely built and subsidised them, but they are now handed over to Trustees, with endowments and subsidies, and, therefore, hardly rank properly as Government or public buildings. Railway buildings are not included. They are administered by the Commissioners, and statistics regarding them are provided in railway reports. Outbuildings and dependencies do not include conveniences, wood- and coal-sheds, shelters, &c, but only the more substantial and important detached out-offices : in many cases, such- as. gaols and asylums, as shown by notes to columns above, they include large and small residences. In the classes of minor buildings, on the other hand, residences are counted in as main buildings, being offim larger than the offices. This return is only approximate, but gives a fairly-correct representation .of the public buildings of the colony. There is a mass of information to hand, but its perfect arrangement and classification involve a very large amount of time and olerical labour and verifying correspondence throughout the colony.

Description. Provincial District of Auckland. I Provincial Provincial j Provincial District District District of of of Hawke's Bay. Taranaki. Wellington. Provincial District of Marlborough. Provincial District of Nelson. Provincial District ol Westland. Provincial Provincial District District of of Otago, Canterbury. including Southland. Totals. Public Buildings—subdivided into North Island. South Island. Totals as before. School Buildings—subdivided into North Island. South Island. Totals. Remarks. Public Buildings and Offices .. 231 51 35 119 31 68 59 115 200 909 436 473 909 Ordinary Schools 429 638 1,067 Eesidenoes not included. See notes to columns 16, 17, 18, 19. Native Schools 56 9 65 * urn Outbuildings and Dependencies 183 35 37 104 23 55 42 112 162 753 359 394 753 Outbuilding and dependencies of School Buildings not included. See notes to columns 16, 17, 18, 19. Totals 647 414 80 1-2 223 54 123 101 227 362 1,662 795 867 1,662 485 1,132 DETAi: 3 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 L5 16 17 18 19 Government Houses. Special iuildings. Large Blocks of Departmental Offices. Court Buildings. (raol Buildings. Police-! Build station lings. Custoi Buili lhouse Lings. Postal and Telegraph Buildings. Lunatic Asylum Buildings. Quarantine-station Buildings. Immigration* barrack buildings. Marine Department Buildings. Defence Buildings. Harbour-defences Buildings. Miscellaneous. School Buildings. Prorincial District. Main Buildings and Offices. Outbuildings and Dependencies. B*s bUH ngS B.nldSgs oSL SSS. Brings ;' SS Main iuildings and. Offices. Outbuildings and Dexiendencies. Main Buildings and Oflices Outbuildings and Dependencies. oSL a DeS, BuSfgs ™gS Bu^ngs^S"88 Main Buildings and Offices. Outbuildings and Dependencies. Bu^Sngs buddings Unices. denoi6s , T ■ OutOrdinary Eesi- Native ResiSchools. dencea. Schools, dences. Auckland .. 1 4 1 1 6 6 38 10 5 8 69 86 6 3 49 27 2 6 5 4 35 27 3 1 11 5 10 ll -=* u o Hawke's Bay 1 1 5 1 3 1 20 20 1 1 10 6 1 1 5 3 3 1 2 1 1 4 3 1 8 429 281 56 52 Daranaki 6 2 1 13 25' 4 2 2 4 Wellington 1 5 7 8 2 2 14 6 3 13 26 31 1 1 18 17 2 6 5 3 8 3 15 4 11 6 6 Harlborough 1 1 5 1 1 4 9 6 6 8 5 3 1 3 ] kelson .. -. /Vestland .. 2 2 12 13 6 4 1 3 1 2 14 20 19 20 2 2 1 2 17 9 16 6 1 1 2 6 13 2 7 3 4 1 2 3 5 T3 d [■£ o h j 638 535 9 janterbury 3 3 14 7 4 6 37 59 1 1 19 14 1 8 5 4 11 2 5 4 4 2 5 2 6 )tago (including Southland) 4 4 35 12 4 2 63 89 2 2 35 14 2 6 4 5 7 3 27 18 3 3 7 4 7 Totals 20 20 142 48 25 33 256 358 15 11 167 108 10 35 19 16 18 106 69 42 16 34 16 45 1,067 816 65 61