DEPARTMENTAL VOTES.

Chronicle (Levin), 16 August 1946, Page 6

DEPARTMENTAL VOTES.

Customs Department: £250,395 (£20(5,778), the. increase being due to general postvvar expansion. Land and Income Tax Department: £551,890 (£403,8(53). Salaries show an increase of £44,000 wliilo expenses ineidental to tlie decentralisation of tlie department are up bv £38,000. • Stamp Duties: *£154,978 (£179,159), the deerease being due to tlie fact tliat there is no longer any.i^efund .of racing revenue from Patriotic meetings w-liich last year amounted to £40,073. Audit Department: £100,908 (£90,977). Public Service Commissioner's Office: £37,510 (£29,330). Tlie Public Service rehabilitation and stall' training scheme is estiniated to cost £3035 compared with £323 last ■ vear. Internal Affairs Department: £1,075.775 (£830,412). Destruclion of deer is j estimated to c.(7st £40,500 (£20,015). | Grauts and subsidies for physical wel- ; fare are estimated at £25,000 (£3295). ' The care of war graves is shown at £8500 (£3G02), the increase being due

to the fact that the cost of cariug for the graves of seidiers of the iSecond World War had hitherto been cliaTged to the War Expenses Account. The provision of £20o0 is made for the e£penses of the war history and war archives while £2000 is set aside for the salary of the editor-in-ehief of tlie War History. The grant made to General Preyberg to meet the cost of transporting his family, staff and effects from Britain to New Zealand is £5000 while the expenses of conveying the retiring Goverupr General, Bir Ovril Newall and party home were £4500. A grant of £1250 is being made to Alalta. war memoriai hospital for children and £125,000 is provided for the maintenanee and upkeep in New Zealand -and transport and incidental expenses to and from New Zealand, of Polish evacuees. Island Territories Department: £445,200 (£384,873). The .vote inciudes £10,300 on account for radio reconstruclion in the Cook and otlior islands, £3000 for subsidising the cost of roading development in Western Samoa, £0340 (£3100) for Government scholarsliips in New Zealand for students from Western Samoa and £9,100 (£699) for mspection and equipment for lsland schools. The cost of operating the Alaui Bomare is estimated at £05,000 (£69,352). frinting and Stationery Department: £427,705 (£352,720), tlie increase being due chiefly to purchases of niachinery, plant and tools and to the fact that the quantity of paper and ollice rcquisites urdered last year was npt to liand by Marcb 31. Marine Department: £388,029 (£300,880). .The vote uicludes £47,270 for working expenses of the barque Pamir (previousiy cliarged to tlie War Expenses Atcoum ), and £6000 (£992) for plaiiting oysters. There is an increase of £20,000 for tlie maintenanee of'Westport liaroour, xuost of whicli is for dredging, while £3000 is provided for a wireless telephony installation at Westport. This is oue of severn stations be-j j ing equipped to enable vessels iitted j with wireless telephony equipment to' ,'ontact land stations. ' j i-iaaour Department: £200,820 (£134,- j 7 97). The vote inciudes tlie eargo conLi'oi conuniUee 's expenses £15,OOU (previousiy cliarged lo war expenses but il2,UoO is recoverablo, and Ihe cost of extended liours of work on the water | u'ont £00,000 (previousiy charged to wai* expenses). Native Department: £440,884 (£310,745 j. 'J'he vote inciudes £3000 for ear■pentry aud allied trade training and £13,0(K) for the Alaon Purposes Eund. rhe transfer to the Land for Bettlement Account is £20U,U00 whicli is tvvice as much as last -year, This sum is to subsiilise the bringing in of marginal land.. Valuation Department: . £144,800 (£84,470). Fees to valuers are estimated at £59,587 (£24,802), the increase , being , due to Ihe r,evaluation of districts and increase in land saies work. Electoral Department: £148,853 (£2-3,-40})). The vote inciudes £50,000 for cost>f takiug the general election, £12,500 for the licensing l»oll, £50,000 for the preparation of tlie rolls, £250 for licen .-Tng commiltce elections, £7500 for the rornialiyn of new rolls consequent un the alteratipn of electoral boundaries and £3000 for tlie expenses oi' the Bep resentation Oonimission. Census and Statistics Department: £159,000 (£70,322). Alost oi tlie increase is due to tlie eugagemeut of addi tional stall" for the tabulation of the 1945 census results aud to the purchase. of inechanical appliauces. NationaJ. Service Department: £2841 (£370,813). This department has been absorbed into tlie National Employment' Service. v National Employment Service: £020,477 (£180,995). Under tlie heading of eiuployment promotion there is £140,000 for uccoimnodution for workers. The vote for tlie liome aid service is £25,044 (£1575) including £10,000 i'or establishing hostels for the accommodation and training of home aids. Grauts, subsidies, etc., for the promotion of employment is set dowu at £150,000 (£107,992). | Crown Law Office: £11,383 (£10,200). | Police Department: £1,042,458 (£739,j lOl). This inciudes salaries £812,853 | (£595,420) and apart from £77,000 ! which was rutstanding at ALarch 31, the increase is due to the provision for a 1 full complement in the police force.