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APPENDIX XVI.

COST TO STATE OF WORKS UNDER LAND PROJECT.

Clerk to the Committee of Public Accounts.

Qns. 235 and 286.

With reference to the inquiry on the subject at the meeting of the Committee of Public Accounts on the 9th October, I have to state that the average approximate net cost to the State of works carried out under the Land Project, exclusive of administrative expenses, is:—

Section A—£10 per acre.

Section B—£37 per acre.

Work done under Section A usually comprises minor drainage, clearance of scattered furze and light scrub, removal of fences, etc. Section B work comprises intensive drainage, clearance of dense scrub and boulders, removal of fences and the application of lime and phosphates up to a maximum of £5 per acre.

(Signed) J. DEMPSEY,

Accounting officer

16th October, 1957.