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existing carriage shed into a paintshop. It will also be
possible, in the future, by excavating into the hill which
adjoins the yard and which is Crown land, to provide for the
accommodation of nineteen more engines and thirty-six more coaches in addition to the fourteen engines and twenty-eight coaches mentioned in paragraph 3.
6.
The estimated value of the land and buildings
which it is desired to acquire is shown in Enclosure 3. The
land is valued at $129,928 and the Crown land which it is pro-
posed to exchange for it is valued at the same figure. This
exchange, if affected, will form a debit to railway account and
a credit to Land Sales. The value of the buildings is estimated at $58,305.38.
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now required is as follows:-
The estimated cost of providing the accommodation
$23,516.00
94,900.00
Lengthening of Paintshop.
Running Shed for 4 trains.
Rebuilding Stores.
Forming yard and laying necessary
tracks including purchase of rails, crossings, building of culvert and fencing.
7,150. 00
50,600.00
$176,166.00
8.
I have to ask your sanction of these proposals
and permission to provide accordingly in the Railway Estimates
for 1915 and to incur so much of the expenditure during the
current year as it may be possible to spend. I shall be glad
to learn your decision by telegraph.
I have the honour to be,
sir,
Your most obedient,
humble servant,
Br
Governor,&c.
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