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Table No. 13. PUBLIC WORKS FUND. Statement showing the Net Expenditure under Appropriations for the Year ended 31st March, 1928, compared with the Year ended 31st March, 1927.

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I | I " ! " ~ ! Vote - 31st'March? 1928. | 31st March?1027. Increase. Decrease. £ £ I £ I £ Public Works, Departmental .. .. 130,688 115,444 15,244 Railway-construction .. .. 908,669 1,096,368 .. 187,699 Additions to Open Lines .. ... 233,153 384,439 .. 151,286 ! Public Buildings—General .. .. .. .. 42,554 119,864 .. 77,310 Courthouses .. .. .. 7,531 1,261 6,270 Prison Buildings and Works.. .. 22,359 22,812 .. 453 Police-stations .. .. .. 5,561 7,411 .. 1,850 Postal and Telegraph.. .. .. 77,194 86,052 ! .. 8,858 Agricultural .. .. ■■ 2,863 4,164 .. 1,301 Mental Hospital Buildings .. .. 51,119 68,635 .. 17,516 Health and Hospital Institutions .. 14,361 15,840 .. 1,479 Timber-supply and Sawmills, &c. .. j Cr. 6,997 8,512 .. 15,509 Acquisition and Operation of Quarries .. : Cr. 9,325 6,302 .. 15,627 Lighthouses.. .. .. •• 7,979 5,758 2,221 Harbour-works .. .. •• 15,891 13,262 2,629 Development of Tourist Resorts 36.673 31,981 4,692 Department of Immigration .. 67,157 184,918 .. 117,761 Roads, &c. .. .. .. 669,832 575,131 94,701 | Roads on Ooldfields .. .. 2,330 2.230 100 Roads to give access to outlying districts 33,642 .. 33,642 Telegraph Ext -nsion .. .. .. 625,540 558,041 67,499 Contingent Defence .. 39,986 : 34,014 5,972 i Lands, Miscellaneous .. .. 72,898 j 56,267 16,631 Irrigation, Water-supply, and Drainage.. ! 49,735 56,937 .. 7,202 Plant. Material, and Stores .. .. Cr. 1,288 i Cr. 24,148 22,860 Transfer to Main Highways Account, 200,000 ' 400,000 .. j 200,000 Construction Fund S'rvices not provided for .. .. 264 1,190 .. 926 272,461 804,777 272,461 Totals .. . . j 3,300,369 j 3.832,685 , .. 532,316