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by other Departments; the net expenditure totalled £5,154,542, of which £846,139 was expended by other Departments. In addition the Department collected £1,028,416 from sales of electricity and from other forms of revenue.

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Expenditure, 1935-36. Total Net . , Exnenditure to Class of Work. j ; 8 [ st Maroh , Gross. Recoveries. Net. 1936. Expenditure, Public Works Fund. Railways £ £ £ £ New construction .. .. •• •• •• 8,088 42,986 Cr. 34,898 38,670,448 Improvements and additions to open lines .. .. — 335,213 42,304 - 292,909 17,911,888 Eoads. . .. .. •• •• •• - 522,702 78,325 - 444,377 22,986,307* Public buildings .. .. - 409,649 62,769 346,880 12,069,672' Lighthouses, harbour-works, and harbour defences .. .. 5,629 2,708 2,921 1,322,048 Tourist and health resorts .. .. •• •• 15,021 1,338 13,683 717,136 Telegraph extension .. .. •• •• 260,271 64,891 195,380 11,755,918 Departmental -251,189 151,805 99,384 3,091,929 Irrigation, water-supply, and|drainage .. .. •• 152,718 67,304 85,414 1,303,179 Lands-improvement .. .. .. •• 97,568 59,659 37,909 928,036 Swamp land drainage .. .. •• •• •• 25,160 12,238 12,922 55,917 Settlement of unemployed workers .. .. .. 220,567 69,222 151,345 664,485: Native-land settlement - 337,854 265,953 71,901 357,971 Plant, material, and services .. .. .. •• - 343,390 320,952 22,438 140,987 Dairy industry loans .. .. •• •• 10,750 .. 10,750 10,750 Cost and discount, raising loans, &c. .. .. .. .. .. .. 3,828,307 Closed accounts (for more detail see Table 1) .. •• •• .. .. 7,995,340 Totals, General Purposes Account .. .. 2,995,769 1,242,454 1,753,315 123,810,318! Electric Supply Account (previously Aid to Water-power Works Account) — Construction (expenditure as per accounts in Table 5) .. 193,331 .. 193,331 13,112,485 Working-expenses (expenditure as per accounts in Table 5) 197,968 .. 197,968 Waihou and Ohinemuri Rivers Improvement Account .. .. . . .. 709,740 Totals, Public Works Fund 3,387,068 1,242,454 2,144,614 137,632,543 Expenditure, other Votes and Accounts. Main Highways Account — Revenue Fund— Annual appropriation (maintenance, interest and loan redemption) 1,576,069 116,787 1,459,282V Permanent appropriation (rate subsidies, interest on transfer from Public Works Fund, &c.) .. .. 460,125 .. 460,125 Construction Fund — Annual appropriation 530,471 97,203 433,268«; 5,978,495* Consolidated Fund (maintenance, public buildings, roads, &c.) 197,507 52,105 145,402 Closed accounts (for details see Public Works Statement, 1933) .. .. .. 18,955,387 Unemployment Fund (expenditure by Public Works Department) : Amounts not included above .. .. .. 511,851 .. 511,851 Totals, Other votes and accounts .. .. 3,276,023 266,095 3,009,928 24,933,882 Grand total of expenditure, Public Works Fund and other votes and accounts for the year ended 31st March, 1936 .. 6,663,091 1,508,549 5,154,542 Capital expenditure to date .. .. •• •• 162,566,425 * Includes £4,500 expended under section 16, subsection (1), Native Land Amendment and Native Land Claims Adjustmen Act, 1923. t Excludes expenditure on Workers' Dwellings totalling £319,918 transferred to State Advances Accounl % Includes £4,865 expended under Finance Act, 1932 (No. 2), section 6. § Does not include expenditure under Ellesmere Lan Drainage Act, 1905, or £1,226,000 transferred to and included in Main Highways Construction Fund. || Excludes interest an loan charges. f For annual income and expenditure accounts, see Appendix E. ** As per accounts in Appendix E.