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YEAR ENDING 31 MARCH, 1943.

MAINTENANCE OF PUBLIC WORKS AND SERVICES.

Minister of Public Works. AN ESTIMATE of the Sum that will be required in the Year ending 31st March, 1943, to defray the Salaries, Contingencies, and other Expenses relative to Maintenance of Public Buildings, Roads and Irrigation Works, Plant, Material, and Other Services. Summary.

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1942-43. 1941-42. Salaries. Other Charges. Total. Voted. Expended. Vote —Maintenance of Public Works and £ £ £ £ £ Services — Subdivision I.—Public Buildings .. .. 14,850 112,186 127,036 141,400 134,829 II.—Roads .. 136,100 136,100 111,800 53,238 „ III. — Irrigation, Drainage, and River-protection and Improvement Works .. .. 175,450 175,450 274,780 188,744 IV .—Railway-lines 6,850 6,850 4,320 2,581 V. — Plant, Material, and Miscellaneous Services .. .. 1,365,764 1,365,764 2,337,450 5,286,215 Gross Total 14,850 1,796,350 1,811,200 2,869,750 5,665,607 Credits-in-aid 1,311,200 1,311,200 2,269,750 5,155,146 NET TOTAL .. .. .. 14,850 485,150 500,000 600,000 510,461 = . L , Number 1941-42. ot Persons - VOTE—MAINTENANCE OF PUBLIC WORKS 1942-43 1942-481941-42 AND SBRVICES - Voted. Expended. Subdivision No. I. — Public Buildings. £ £ £ Expenses incidental to the Maintenance of Public Buildings, including Additions, Improvements, Fittings, Furniture, Gardens, and Grounds — Other Charges for and incidental to — Accident compensation, sick-pay, holiday pay, and special leave to workmen .. .. .. .. •• 1.500 1,600 762 Government Buildings throughout the Dominion —■ Office requisites, fuel, light, power, water, cleaning, scavenging, and other annual services (£800 recoverable) .... 7,000 7,000 5,610 Courthouses 5,000 5,000 6,014 Customhouses 100 100 61 Departmental Buildings 17,000 20,000 (a) 16,810 Gaols .... 3,000 3,000 2,536 Mental Hospitals .'. 20,000 25,000 15,809 Police-stations 12,000 16,000 16,112 Quarantine Stations 100 100 408 Other Government Buildings 2,000 5,000 1,794 Rents (£3,000 recoverable) 10,000 10,000 8,851 Replacement works (transfer to Public Works Fund vote "Public Buildings") (6)10,000 10,000 10,000 (a) Includes expenditure on Government Buildings, Auckland, £737; Customhouse, Wellington, £790; restoration of fire damage, Defence Building, £1,285; old Lands and Deeds Building, Bimedin, £2,496. (b) Transfer to Public Works Account to cover expenditure of a maintenance nature.