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Health Department.
The Commonwealth Health Department’s works cover quarantine stations, health
laboratories in the tropics, mining areas and certain industrial areas, a School of Health
at the Sydney University (£36,500) and serum laboratories.
Works under these headings have been carried out to the extent of :
Year c
1928-29 20,961
I929"3° 28,127
I93°"3I 6,981
I93I"32 150
I932"33 1,260
I933"34 2U74
I934“35 17,300 (projected).
Commonwealth Offices, Brisbane.
A new office building—£90,000—is now under construction.
Unemployment Relief Works.
Apart from the expenditure on new works, etc., listed above, the Public Works Section
expended the following amounts from Appropriations for Unemployment Relief Works :
Year £
I93°"3I 26,471
1931- 32 236,425
1932- 33 97,922
1933- 34 159 >357
Total... £520,175
As far as this Section is concerned, the money was devoted to works such as repair
and maintenance of Commonwealth buildings, earthworks, roads, paths, drainage, and
improvements to various Commonwealth establishments, etc., and the erection of certain
buildings at th.6 Flinders Naval Depot and the serum institutes.
d0 not include other and more comprehensive schemes which were under¬
taken jointly by the Commonwealth and State Governments.
Federal Capital Territory.
The works undertaken during the period comprised :
. T^16 completion of the Australian Institute of Anatomy and of the plant industry
building at the C.S.I.R. establishment at Black Mountain; the erection of some 50 cottages;
construction of swimming-pool (£12,000); new service reservoir and pipe line thereto
4j,0°i extension of pumping plant (£10,000); roads—bituminous surfacing of existing
roads, low-level bridge (£3,000); stormwater drains; extension of sewage treatment