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Appropriations for Public Works Services.

ELECTRIC SUPPLY ACCOUNT.

Development of Water-power (including New Works and Working-expenses and Maintenance, Salaries, Travelling-expenses, Audit Fees, Exchange on Remittances Abroad, Compensation for Accidents to Workmen and Motor-vehicles, &c., and all other Expenses).

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— 1937-38. Vote No. 52.—Development of Water-power — £ New Works and Purchase of Materials for Stock .. 1,027,000 Working-expenses and Maintenance .. .. .. 358,000 Gross Total .. .. .. 1,385,000 Credits-in-aid .. .. •• •• 15,000 NET TOTAL . . .. .. ■ ■ 1,370,000 MINISTER OF PUBLIC WORKS. £ £ ELECTRIC SUPPLY ACCOUNT. VOTE No. 52. Development of Water-power. 1 North Island Scheme — New works and purchases of materials for stock — £ £ Ara-puni-Horahora works .. 342,000 Manaah ao-W aikaremoana works 203,000 545,000 Working-expenses and maintenance — Arapuni-Horahora works .. 75,000 King's Wharf Station, Auckland (half additional net cost of operating and half capital charges) . . • • • • 37,000 Mangahao-Waikaremoana works 113,000 225,000 770,000 2 South Island Scheme — New works and purchases * of materials for stock — Lake Coleridge-Waitaki works 449,000 Southland works .. .. 92,000 541,000 Working-expenses and maintenance — Lake Coleridge-Waitaki works 90,000 Southland works .. ■■ 43,000 133,000 674,000 3 Providing meals for overseas and other special visitors . . 100 4 Surveys and investigations of other schemes . . . . 800 5 General expenses not chargeable to any particular work 100 Estimated credits-in-aid under Section 51 of the Public Revenues Act, 1926 — £ New works, &c. .. •• 12,000 Working-expenses, &c. .. .. 3,000 15,000 Gross Total .. .. 1,445,000 Amount required for Current Year .. .. 1,385,000 Credits-in-aid .. •• •• 15,000 NET TOTAL—VOTE No. 52 .. .. 1,370,000 TOTAL .... .... •••• £1,370,000