ENDING 31 MARCH, 1 940.

Main Highways Account.

CONSTRUCTION, RECONSTRUCTION, ETC., OF MAIN HIGHWAYS—continued.

X.B. Xn addition to the amounts included above, the following estimated amounts required for the services mentioned will be expended under special Acts without further appropriations : — £ Abolition of toll-gates (Taranaki, Hawera, and Eltham County Councils), (Finance Act, 1925, Section 20 (2) (a)) ■ ■ 1,500 Advances to local authorities (Main Highways Amendment Act, 1926, Section 2) .. .. .. .. 35,000 Hutt Road annual charges (Wellington City Council), (Finance Act, 1927 (No. 2), Section 33) .. .. .. 25,000 Interest on amounts transferred from Public Works Fund (Finance Act, 1931 (No. 3)) .. .. .. .. 61,300 Subsidies to local authorities (Finance Act, 1931 (No. 3); Appropriation Act, 1916, Section 9; and Municipal Corporations Act, 1933, Section 71) .. .. -• •• •• •• •• .. .. 210,000 332,800

Authority: E. V. Paul, Government Printer, Wellington.—l 939.

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No. .—Native Land Settlement— £ £ £ Subdivision No. I.—Development of Native Land Settlement Schemes .. .. .. 1,150,000 720,000 1,034,976 „ II.—Development of Natives' Lands .. .. 100,000 130,000 106,155 „ III.—Native Ho