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Table No. 18. Table showing the Cost of Maintenance of Telegraph and Telephone Lines for the Year ended 31st March, 1917.

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District. TravellingoSo. SgJKf L E ab0 ™ Material. Linemen. Upkeep of s.s. Tutanekai. Rural Total Salnvips of Telephones: Expenditure and Assistance out of Vote i;„™.„ to Settlers. Maintenance. J-unemen. Total Cost of Maintenance. Average Average Cost Cost per Mile per Mile of Wire. of Line. Auckland Wellington Nelson 13,351 16,149 3,012 4,054 i 3,776 j 1,126 2,041 2,899 £ 3,173 2,394 1,061 993 1,723 | £ 5,104 5,979 838 1,120 1,106 £ 6,937 12,460 802 1,909 4,519 £ £ £ 15,214 20,833 2,701 4,022 7,348 £ 7,586 11,787 1,348 4,761 5,008 £ 22,800 32,620 4,049 8,783 12,356 £ s. d. 1 14 2 2 0 5 1 6 11 0 19 11 £ s. d. 5 12 6 8 12 9 3 11 11 4 6 1 Canterbury 8,826 Otago 8,982 17 6 1 4 5 3 Total 13,896 j 9,344 j 14,147 j 26,627 50,118 30,490 80,608 50,320 1 12 0 5 16 0 Cables 374* 444 1,908 248 4,703 7,303 7,303 19 10 6t Stores 29 1.617 6,133 7,779 1,877 9,656 Rural telephones — Assistance to settlers .. 8 2,156 1,771 1,633 1,633 1,633 Laboratory, &e. I 3,935 3,935 Wireless stations •• I .. 124 1,027 1,144 2,295 2,295 ! Total telegraph-lines 13,896 3,897 ; 17,793 9,949 2,182 12,131 1,633 ;3,063 35,110 32,367 35,912 50,694 20,855 35,923 4,703 105,430 Telephone exchanges 142,469 21,452 11,476 71,022 Grand total 193,163 | 1,633 108,173 68,279 176,452 42,307 47,399 4,703 * Knots. f Per knot.