SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATES.

Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 239, 9 October 1928, Page 21

SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATES.

810 POLICE VOTE.

FORK BOMVB COSTS ISOOO.

MAORI ARTS AND CRAFTS ASSISTED. (By Telegraph.—Parliamentary Reporter.) WELLINGTON, Monday. The Supplementary Estimates provide additional votes totalling £257,418 in respect to the Consolidated Fund items, and £14,398 on the Public Works Fund. The sum of £15,000 is provided for additional subsidies to hospital boards. A further £200 is voted for the General Assembly library. There are substantial votes for Government Buildings throughoout New Zealand, £2000 being provided for courthouses, £4350 for departmental buildings, and £8000 for mental hospitals. Niue Island fruitgrowers are to receive £288 for losb of fruit on the motor ship Maui Pomare, £60 is voted for inquiry into that loss, and there is a £1000 grant towards the purchase of fruit graders for Cook Islands. Erection of accommodation at Makogai for lepers is to cost £1000. />«Ann A compassionate allowance of xrfuuu is provided for the widow of the late Sir William Sim, Supreme Court judge. Increased Police Expenditure. The increase of one shilling a day given to police constables entails an additional £16,972, a total of 930 officers receiving the rise. Increases in salaries for all ranks have resulted in a total extra Police Department vote of £21,544. The widow of the iate Inspector Kemp will receive £125, and the widow? oi Constable Mahoney and Wales £laO For assistance towards mining a sum of £5884 is voted, which includes an additional £4884 towards prospecting for cold. , . _ . The Department of Internal Affairs vote includes £1000 for displays at local shows and exhibitions, and 511 respect of publicity in England for New Zealand produce. Representation '» overseas exhibitions has cost £240 additional to the sum in the main Estimate pnd publicity work in connection with minor trade exhibits £200. £50 is voted on account for the erection of a memorial to the memory ol Fid ward Gibbon Wakefield and Colone William Hay ward Wakefield. An addi tional £1000 is provided for the tainment of visitors to the Dominioi and official functions, and the promisee ' £2000 for the Tasman flyers is voted The.'Board, of Maori Arts and Crafti receives £800. A sum of £500 is vote, for expenses of the Olympic-team. £201 for reformative* work in St, Mary i Homes, Otahuhu, and a grant of _£25 to the War Funds Council for Soutl African Vpterans. . In respect of the Parliamentary dele •ration to Canada £1000 is voted, an« there if £2000 on account for the pro posed Wellington. r carillon. _ _ The Medical Committee appointed b 1 the Minister of-Health to inquire-int' , the adequacy of accommodation for T.B patients is to receive £1000 expenses. Naval Defence Vote. An additional £36,850 is voted fa naval defence, including fc repairs and alterations to the oil tanke Nucula, £4000 for oil fuel for tank and ships, £10,300 for storey, an £3500 for erection of a drill hall for th Naval Reserve at Auckland. Furnisl ings aftd outfitting of drill halls is t cost an additional £400. A vote c £400 is provided for expenses in cox nection with' the visit of Air Marshi Sir John Salmond. Grants to member Of the New Zealand Military Forcei in lieu of accrued and retiring leavi total £1417. Towards the expenses c the team of riflemen to Victoria nea March £250 is voted. In respect of tli search for the obstruction which cause the casualty to the steamer Northuir berland, £227 is provided. The sum t £1000 is set down for delegates' ej penses to the industrial conference, th: being an additional vote. For agricultural investigation an research £1725 is voted, the largcs item being £1000 for field experiment Pork Bonus Costa Another £5000. An additional £75,000 is provide in respect of the bonus on the expoi of pork and there is £50Q for guarantc on the export of eggs. Carriage of fo< der for starving stock entails a vote * £1100, and an additional £27,000 given as a portion of freight rates c fertilisers. An additional £500 granted for dairy research, and an add tional £4000 is voted for beautificatic of the area in the vicinity of the lai Mr. Massey's grave and access to Poii Halswell. The Lands Department provide £5000 for the payinent of local rati on unoccupied farms in the hands 1 land boards.