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RETURN No. 7. Expenditure under Vote for Additions to Open Lines, charged to Capital Account, for the Year ended 31st March, 1904.

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Total Expenditure. [aterial on hand at 31st March, 1903 ixpenditure charged to Vote 87 by Treasury £ s. d. 37,114 5 2 333,960 16 10 371,075 2 0 23,088 4 8 Less material on hand at 31st March, 1904 .. Ixpenditure on Works, &o.— Way and Works Department Locomotive Department Lake Wakatipu steamers £117,223 12 11 215,901 11 1 14,861 13 4 £347,986 17 4 ' Way and Works Depaetment : Pabticulabs op Wobks, etc. Section. Work, &c. Amount. Total. £ s. d. £ s. d. 78 18 0 Whangarei Auckland Respacing sleepers Additions to station buildings, platforms, dwellings, &o. .. Additional works, water-services, &c, for Locomotive Department Sidings, loading-banks, stockyards, approaches, and crossings Widening bridge, Remuera Relaying Respacing sleepers Bridge-strengthening Telegraph facilities Signals and interlocking Tablet-working 759 2 2 2,604 4 4 383 18 5 124 16 0 564 7 6 355 10 0 659 7 2 499 19 7 3,707 19 5 2,601 13 3 9,192 16 0 Wellington - Napier-New Plymouth Additions to station buildings, platforms, &o. Additional works, water-services, &c, for Locomotive Department Sidings, loading-banks, stockyards, approaches, and crossings Additions to dwellings Additions to Eastown Workshops Additions to wharf, Foxton Access to beach, New Plymouth Creosoting plant Land Relaying and bridge-strengthening Respacing sleepers Telegraph facilities Signals and interlocking Tablet-working Departmental offices, Wellington 12,260 17 ll 1,067 0 5 2,401 11 5 1,152 2 0 526 17 5 228 10 9 248 7 0 165 2 6 411 12 0 3,721 10 4 1,360 18 0 283 19 5 2,001 15 7 907 18 11 14,517 4 8 Hurunui-Bluff — (Christchurch District) Additions to station buildings, platforms, &o. Additional works, water-services, &o,, for Locomotive Department Sidings, loading-banks, stockyards, approaches, and crossings Buildings for acetylene-gas generators Poot-warmer furnaces Purchase of buildings, Christchurch Westinghouse-brake shed, Addington Overhead bridge, Lincoln Relaying Respacing sleepers Bridge-strengthening Telegraph facilities Signals, interlocking, and tablet-working 3,509 5 11 1,354 9 2 864 3 1 179 5 2 648 6 5 3,245 0 0 4,774 17 1 141 10 2 2,124 7 6 543 18 0 357 6 10 170 12 4 2,368 3 6 38,187 6 Additions to station buildings, platforms, &c. Additional works, water-services, &c, for Locomotive Department Sidings, loading- banks, stockyards, approaches, and crossings Additions to dwellings Lightening rock slopes, Ofcago Central Railway Building for acetylene-gas generators, and foot-warmer furnaces Bridge, Caversbam Relaying Respacing sleepers Bridge-strengthening Telegraph facilities Signals and interlocking Tablet-working 10,434 18 1 20,281 5 2 (Dunedin District) 1,879 5 9 408 19 6 573 11 8 984 13 7 185 14 2 1,327 6 0 1,128 15 0 451 4 0 199 9 1 194 11 2 1,733 16 8 261 0 3 19,763 4 X. Carried forward 90,571 12