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SUMMARY OF WORKS CONSTRUCTED— continued.

List of Works on Goldfields undertaken wholly by the Mines Department, or by Subsidies to County Councils, Local Bodies, and Prospecting Associations, in Progress on the 31st March, 1903.

Nature of Works. Total Cost of Construction, or Amount authorised to be expended. Expenditure, by way of Subsidy or otherwise, by Mines Department. Amount of Liability by Mines Department on Works in Progress. SUMMABY. Roads on goldfields Subsidised roads and tracks Subsidised roads and tracks other than on goldfields Prospecting Water-races Wharves Schools of Mines Drainage-channels Diamond drills Treatment of ores Tracks to open up mineral lands Artesian-well boring, Maniototo Plains Repairing flood damages Prospecting deep levels Resumption of land Water-conservation Construction of telephone-lines Proclamation of rivers £ s. d. 516,896 7 11 173,799 1 5 6,146 9 10 82,082 12 10 100,514 8 8 435 15 9 32,144 18 1 42,813 10 10 5,170 11 4 3,164 0 6 325 8 1 800 0 0 500 0 0 51,000 0 0 3,112 7 0 23,764 5 10 60 0 0 31,301 6 8 £ s d. 468,833 0 5 102,703 12 1 4,759 6 2 31,278 16 11 97,128 6 4 285 15 9 32,144 18 1 27,997 3 2 3,428 11 4 2,514 0 6 325 8 1 800 0 0 500 0 0 25,500 0 0 3,112 7 0 23,039 5 10 50 0 0 31,301 6 8 £ s. d. 48,063 7 6 1,512 1 11 1,82117 7 2,454 14 9 725 0 0 jl,074,031 4 9 , 855,701 18 4 54,577 1 9

Locality and Nature of Works. Total Cost, or Amount authorised. Amount of Amount due by Contribution paid Mines Department by Mines on Works Department. j still in Progress NORTH ISLAND. Roads (subsidised). £ s. d. 200 0 0 Thames County. toad Taniwha to 4th Branch Tairua River £ s.- d. £ s. d. 100 0 0 Thames Borough. Hearing dibris, Waiotahi Creek 225 0 0 112 10 0 112 10 0 Ohinemuri County. jow-level tunnel, Jubilee Mine (E. Kersey Cooper) 1,500 0 0 651 0 0 99 0 0 Piako County. tepairs Waiorongomai Tramway 150 0 0 75 0 0 MIDDLE ISLAND. Roads (subsidised). Buller County. jong Tunnel-Addison's 500 0 0 250 0 0 Grey County. Protective works, Big Grey Bridge .. Tew River Bank Road Videning " Frollis " Track tepairs No Town Creek Bridge >aparoa track to Garden Gully ••. 200 0 0 300 0 0 400 0 0 200 0 0 200 0 0 79 8 1 20 11 11 150 0 0 200 0 0 15 0 0 100 0 0 110 0 0 1,300 0 0 189 8 1 485 11 11 Tuapeka County. i'itigerald's Bridge 1,500 0 0 410 0 0 340 0 0 Knapdale Road Board. itaitland Village to Mining Reserve 100 0 0 50 0 0