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FINANCE The payments and receipts in connection with the Public Works Account and other associated votes and accounts for the year 1945-46 are shown in the tabulation following. The expenditure for the year administered through the Department reached a total of £22,703,748, of which sum £2,577,969 was on account of the Dominion's defence programme and ancillary expenditure in connection with the war. The amounts received by way of credits-in-aid and miscellaneous receipts totalled £7,300,189. As from Ist April, 1945, receipts which were previously shown as credits-in-aid in all votes within the Public Works Account and Subdivisions I and II of vote "Maintenance of Public Works and Services," Consolidated Fund, have been included as " Miscellaneous Receipts." This procedure will be followed in future for all subdivisions of vote " Maintenance of Public Works and Services " and for all votes within the Public Works Account.

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Class of Work. Expenditure, 1945-46. Expenditure, Public Wokks Account £ Railway construction 308,050 Housing construction 5,710,135 Public buildings 665,264 Education buildings 1,187,823 Lighthouses and harbour-works 11,593 Roads, &c. 171,604 Soil conservation and rivers control 212,272 Lands, miscellaneous 59,691 Irrigation, water-supply, and drainage 390,312 Linen-flax development 403,809 Totals, Public Works Account 9,120,553 Electric Supply Account — Construction 3,302,033 Working-expenses 1,039,166 4,341,199 Expenditure, other Votes and Accounts Main Highways Account— Construction, reconstruction, and improvements 179,600 Maintenance, repairs, and renewals 1.886,633 Administration, plant, and miscellaneous expenditure 90,862 Interest, fees, &c. 29,923 Permanent appropriations (rate subsidies, &c.) 258,099 Consolidated Fund— Salaries and expenses, Public Works Department and Ministry of Works 813,720 Maintenance, Public Buildings, Roads, &c. 582,369 Plant, material, and miscellaneous services 2,822,821 Other accounts (expenditure by Public Works Department) : Amounts 2,577,969 not included above Totals, other votes and accounts 9,241,996 Grand total of expenditure, Public Works Account and other votes and 22,703,748 accounts, for the year ended 31st March, 1946