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SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATES

TOTAL VOTE OF

£401,036

£160,000 TO PUBLIC

WORKS FUND

EXPENSES OF SPECIAL

COMMITTEES

From Our Parliamentary Reporter.]

WELLINGTON, September r ls,

A total vote of £401,036 is provided for in the Supplementary Estimates, which were introduced by GovernorGeneral’s Message, in the House of Representatives to-day. Of this .sum £213,324 is voted to the Consolidated Fund ordinary revenue account, £160,000 to the Public Works Fund and the balance to separate accounts and accounts outside the public accounts. A grant of £35,000 is provided for Lincoln College.

Items of genera'l and local interest in the estimates are as follows: — Internal Affairs Department (£6648); —A sum of £75 is voted for rail fares in the Dominion of the New Zealand delegation to the British Commonwealth of Nations Conference, Sydney. For the purchase of drugs beneficial in effecting a reduction in the prevalence of hydatid disease in dogs there is a vote of £6OOO. Part of this sum is recoverable, as the owners of dogs are required to pay a prescribed fee in respect of the drug supplied. The recoveries from this source are estimated at £SOOO this financial year.

Expenses of the Parliamentary Committee on Health and Superannuation are represented by a vote of £4OO. Marine Depai'ment (£1717): —An additional £IOO voted for investigation and research concerning the protection of toheroas.

Native Department (£3632): —The appointment of additional officers, as a result of the expansion of activities in the direction of native land development, native housing, and promotion of native employment, is responsible for an item of £2107. Naval Service: —An additional £20,000 is voted for the purchase of land at Devonport, for the site of Royal Naval barracks; but this sum is offset by an amount of £22,000 provided tor in the main Estimates, but not required.

Air Department:—Grants towards the funds of the four territorial squadrons are estimated at £3OO. An additiona" £ISOO is voted for the transport of territorials attending parades, and for 'a reirejher course for the Dunedin squadron. A sum- of £BO is voted to cover the expenses of Air Marshal Sir Edward Ellington, Inspector-General ol the Royal Air Force, and two staff officers. while on a short visit to the Dominion as guests of the Government. Department of Agriculture (£16.213) —The main item is a vote, of £10,000( for the carriage of lime by rail for bona fide farmers, this amount being additional" to the sum of £120,000-pro-vided in the main Estimates. - Department of Industries and Commerce (£ 3960):—There is a vote of £l5B to cover the cost of reports on experiments carried out at the Duffield Iron ■ Corporation. Works... Banbury, on the' production of steel from Taranaki ironsands, and the cost of a further report on the Renn Krupp process for the production of iron sponge. Department of ■ Scientific and Industrial Research (£7lls):—The vote includes grants totalling £2OOO to the Cawthron . Institute, Massey College, and Lincoln College, and a payment of £6OO for the standardisation of local body by-laws by the Standards Institute.

Education Department (£79,755): — The vote includes a grant of £47,300 to education boards for teachers’ salaries and house allowances. There is also an amount .of £43,05.8 for the maintenance pf : public .schools and training Colleges. ‘ ; Credits in aid total £23,334.

i ..Public Buildings ( £ 100,000) vidual-. votes' ■arc as follows:—Lincoln College, "1 £35,000;’ Massey College, £17,000; additional premises at' Mira-mar-Film'Studios, \ ; £ 1400; new Native Department ■ r biiildihgs, ; Sydney street, Wellington; . £2000;- glasshouses for plant disease division, Auckland, £1050; pew ;Police stations, £38,460. - Lighthouses and ‘Harbour . WorksAn additional. £SOOO is proyided for padio direction finding... beacons, ” and the .-electrification of lights... Development of Tourist-Resorts:—A sum 'of £SOOO is to. be spent mainly on general improvements ‘at , the. Hermitage, Mount. Cobk; and’ on the provision of thermal baths at Taupb; ; Dairy’ Industry : Account;— A vote of l£7oo includes' £SOO as expenses for the Guaranteed‘ Prices Advisory Committee, which recently reported 'to the Government.. ■ .

Broadcasting Account ‘ (£6693): There is only one vote for the’ National Broadcasting Service, being a contribution of £863 to the Radio Research Committee. -Miscellaneous votes for the Commercial Broadcasting Service total £5725, including £3875 forcapital expenditure in Christchurch and Paljmerston North. ' j Unauthorised Expenditure:—A grant pf £22^,500-is Ltd:, tb'meet pbrtibn/of the losses sustained -by the company since its inception, 1 ’■ ■' ?-

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Press, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22508, 16 September 1938, Page 12

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SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATES Press, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22508, 16 September 1938, Page 12

SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATES Press, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22508, 16 September 1938, Page 12

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