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Table No. 21. Return of the Cost of Maintenance of Telegraph Lines for the Year ended 31st March, 1898.

Table No. 22. Statement showing the Expenditure on, and the Cost of, Telegraph Construction during the Financial Year ended 31st March, 1898.

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District. No. of Miles. Travellingexpenses of Inspectors and Linemen. Extra Labour. Cost of Material purchased. Value of Material issued from Stores. Salaries of Inspectors and Linemen. Total Cost ol Maintenance. Average Cost per Mile, ■ uckland Vellington •Telson ianterbury )tago .. !ables .. tores .. 1,671 J l,609J I 858 ! 857 1,488 £ s. d. 850 8 4 1,327 16 4 716 5 5 893 6 1 756 4 6 20 7 5 85 17 6 £ s. a. 1,386 1Y 4 2,424 10 11 1,194 12 G 2,544 6 0; 627 1 11 69 10 0 74 15 3 £ s. d. £ s. d. 288 5 5 650 8 4 437 8 3! 3,825 0 6 112 0 10' 649 8 9 670 2 5i 1,085 6 6 293 3 9! 495 7 10 47 16 6 228 3 11 £ s. d. 2,403 15 0 2,917 0 0 1,516 5 0 1.512 1 8 1.513 11 8 £ s. d. 5,579 14 5 10,931 16 0 4,188 12 6 6,705 2 8 3,685 9 8 137 13 11 388 16 8 £ s. d. Totals 8,321 13 11 2,077 1 1 0,705 11 11 9,862 13 4 ; 31,617 5 10 4 17 ;6,484 4,650 5 7

Line. Expenditure. Material from Stores. Total Cost during the Year. Telephone exchanges, — Ashburton Auckland Blenheim Christchurch Dunedin Gisborne Greymouth ... Hastings Invercargill ... Masterton Napier Nelson New Plymouth Oamaru Palmerston North Thames Timaru Wanganui Wellington ... £ s. d. 4 2 6 510 1 5 0 9 0 92 9 4 188 4 6 32 13 9 3 0 0 6 2 3 4 16 5 27 14 4 22 0 0 1 10 0 30 8 4 11 15 5 5 15 .6 9 7 2 3 14 0 69 13 9 522 9 1 £ s. d. 22 7 2 457 1 9 24 4 0 116 6 11 743 14 5 175 10 10 50 0 6 61 11 4 7 15 8 177 12 10 118 1 2 £ s. d 26 9 8 967 3 2 24 13 0 208 16 3 931 18 11 208 4 7 53 0 6 67 13 7 12 12 1 205 7 2 140 1 2 1 10 0 182 0 7 42 2 9 39 18 2 9 7 2 8 17 6 307 17 8 4,481 6 5 151 12 3 30 7 4 34 2 8 5 3 6 238 3 11 3,958 17 4 Total exchanges Sfew copper wires,— N apier-Wanganui Wanganui-New Plymouth Blenheim-Kaikoura Kaikoura-Waitaki Waitaki-Dunedin Waipapakauri ... Kaeo-Totara. North Dmanaia Eikurangi-Hukerenui ... iuckl and-Whangarei Mangapai-Maungakaramea 3 nehunga-M angere Auckland-Henderson Eenderson-Waikomiti ... ~nd-Waihi Auckland-Manukau Heads Pokeno-Mercer Paeroa- W aikin o Plymouth-Awakino Daonui [nglewood-Tarata 1,546 6 9 516 1 10 107 9 7 395 6 10 223 7 6 199 14 4 159 18 9 16 10 6 52 9 1 930 9 6 25 11 5 44 12 5 9 7 4 2 3 8 4 19 "9 4 10 0 2 10 0 18 10 1 15 0 28 13 9 3 0 0 88 18 5 6,372 13 7 587 8 3 105 12 0 130 4 9 3,135 15 0 1,185 1 0 2 10 11 61 18 0 20 17 4 989 11 4 7,919 0 4 1,103 10 1 213 1 7 525 11 7 3,359 2 6 1,384 15 4 2 10 11 221 16 9 37 7 10 52 9 1 1,920 0 10 25 11 5 108 8 7 31 8 7 16 15 0 4 19 9 161 16 4 18 14 0 18 10 1 15 0 28 13 9 3 0 0 187 16 2 63 16 2 22 1 3 14 11 4 157 6 4 16 i 0 98 17 9