THE ESTIMATES.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 873, 20 July 1910, Page 8

THE ESTIMATES.

APPROPRIATIONS FOR THE YEAR.

INCREASES OF SALARY,

The Estimates for the year wero brought down in the House of Representatives yesterday. They include a considerable number of increases of salary.

The following figures show the principal appropriations for this year, the amounts expended last year being shown in parentheses:— Permanent Appropriations. — Civil list, £35,500 (£33,730); interest and sinking fund, £2,472,788 (£2,307,461); under special Acts of the Legislature, (£1,053,218); total, £3,672,110 (£3,514,409). Annual Appropriations.—Legislative Departments, £28,443 (£28,634); Department of Finance, £43,375 (£36,773); Post and Telegraph Department, £913,733 (£855,862),- Working Railways Department, £2,223,275 (£2,168,189): Public buildings, domains, and maintenance of roads, £83,190 (£86,729); Native Department, £18,366 (£18,874); Justice Department, £370,56L (£365,920); Mines Department, £24,447 (£24,704); Department of Internal Affairs, £235,098 (£256,466); Defence Department, £216,400.(£194,050); Customs, Marine and Harbours, and Inspection of Machinery Departments, £120,135 (£122,782); "Department of Labour, £22,827 (£24,212); Department of Lands and Survey, £237.290 (£233,743); Department of Agriculture, Commerce, and Tourists, £181,578 (£189,914); Education Department, £925,642 (£859,243); total, £5,644,360 (£5,466,095). ■ ' Finance Department. The salary of the Assistant Secretary to Lho Treasury (Mr. R. B. Vincent) is increased from £500 to £600,' and that of tho Cashier (Mr. C. E. Chitty) from £365 'to £380. . '-....■ The salary of the Registrar (Mr. Hayes) is increased from £450' to £475. , The allocation for ' discount; exchange, and stamp duty on remittances to London is .£4OOO (voted last year, £1000). Financial Adviser to the Government, ■ London, £400 (£42U). ' post and Telegraph. The, ocean shipping subsidies arc tiualtofcd. The allocation for advertising is £300 (expended last year, £1113). Lodging allowances to cadets, £4140 (£5968), speoial allowance to telegraph message boys during their first year's service, £480 (£1285). Public Buildings, Domains, and Roads. The salary of , tho Government Architect is increased from £550 to £575. Other differences are:—Government House, Auckland, £50 (£178), temporary vice-regal residence £400 (£1189), Parliamentary Buildings £3500 (£5426), Old Parliamentary Buildings (partial restoration, et<T.) £550 (£5057), Wellington Custom Houao (renovations), £375. . . Native Affairs. The salary of the TJnder-Secretary of the Native Department, Judge Fisher, is increased from £625 to £650. , : Defence. The salary of the Chief or the Genoral Staff (Colonel A. W. Robin) is increased from £525 to £625. Finance Member (Mr. F. B. Mabin), from £325 (received as accountant) to £425. ■ ■ • ' ■ The Inspector-General (Colonel R. H. Davies) gets an increase from £525 to £623. ■ The Adjutant and QuartermasterGeneral goes from £290 to £425. ■ ' New provision is made 'for a Director of Military Training and Education (Imperial staff officer), £650, and Director of Military Operations and Intelligence (Imperial staff officer), £500. The staff officer to Chief, of Staff gets an increase from £275 to £325. Staff-officer to Adjutant-General, £280 to £330. Officer Commanding Wellington District, £350 to £425. ' J Officer Commanding Auckland District, £350 to £375. :■ ' : Commandant of Cadets (Major Macdowkl), £333 to £450. Director of Stores, £350 to £375. _ For arms aaid accessories for junior cadets the allocation is £4000 (£1500), camps of instruction, £800 (£300). ■ The annual grant for rifle prizes for shooting, open to Territorials only, is increased from £7000 to £10,000. Expenses, etc., of officers sent to, Engla-nd for instruction, £1000 (£300). Customs and Marins. The salary of the weather reporter (Rev. D. C. Bates) is increased , from £300 to £320, and that of the chief inspector of fisheries (MK Ayson) from £360 to £375 Other figures are: Introduction of Atlantic salmon, £1000 (£B39);'picking an-.l sale of oysters, £100 (£5500); planting oysters in Hauraki Gulf, £500 (£350). . . Labour. The salary of the Secretary of Labour (Mr. E. ,'fregear) is increased from £600 to £625, that of the Chief Inspector of Factories (Mr. J. '. Lomas) from £375 k. £440, Chiei Clerk, £310 to £320; and Accountant and Inspector of Factories, £2G5 to £250. . Lands and Survey. The salary 'of the Surveyor-General (Mr., J. S'trauchon) is increased from £662 to £675. ; Agricultural and Tourists. The salary of the Secretary for Agriculture and Commerce is proposed to ho raised from £500 to. £550, whilst that of the Chief Clerk is. increased from £365 to £375, and that of tho accountant from £260 to. £285. Other increases include:— Editor of Publications, from £265 to £280: . ; -'. ' Biologist; £230 to £250. Assistant £230 to £250. For tho collection of agricultural and pastoral statistics £50 is to bo voted this year, as against £1000 voted last year, of which only £2.was expended. In all £1450 is proposed! to be voted for the expenses of Departmental • exhibits at A. and P.'shows, which work cost £705 last year. The vote for tho preparation and distribution of publications is to bo £600, as against £186 spent in that regard 111 1909. Live Stock Division, Increases in salaries in the Live Stock and Meat Division are proposed as under: — Director, £625 (£600). - Assistant director, £:110 (£400). Senior veterinarian, £JOO (£375). Veterinary officers in charge of laboratory, £350 (£325). ' Laboratory assistant, £260 (£250). Overseer laboratory farm, £155 (£140). ' Laboratory nttendant, £135 (£130). Poultry £240 (£215). As regards this division there is to bo a compassionate allowanco of £134 to the widow of D. L. Luxford, late district agent, Napier. Other items witli expenses last year in parentheses are: —Poultry, plucking and grading depots, £500 (£1020); oxporimenfcs in regard to_ bush sickness, £300 (£67); inoculation of calves for black leg, £125 (£60); passages of now veterinarians from England, £300; testing stock and disposing of diseased cattle, £150 (£6B). . .. Experiment Farms. Increases in the Field and Experiment Farm Divisions aro:—. ■Assistunt director. £340 to £360. •Hemp instructor, £250 to £261).

From the list of salaries there appears to have been considerable pruning in this division, which affected, inter aliu, over 30 inspectors in all. Only £744 was spent on the destruction of noxious wued.s on Native lands last year, but £3000 is proposed to be voted this year. t Fcr experiments in cultivating North Auckland, gum lauds £250 is suggested to bo voted. Other items of interest are as under, with expenditure last year in parentheses : —Co-operative field experiments, £1000 (£547); working of Moumahaki Farm, £2500 (£3452); and" Wereroa, £3000 (£3979); purchase of stud stock, including expenses of importation, £2000 (£685); training of young men at Ruakura Experiment Farm, £1000 (nil). . Orchards and Apiaries. In the Orchards, Gardens, aitd Apiaries Division the salary of the assistant director is to bo increased from £280 to £350, and that of the vine and wine instructor from £185 to £195. Votes also include the following, with expenses last year in parentheses:—rExpenses in connection with outbreaks of orchard ant! garden disease, £100 (£7); fostering tho bee industry, £50 (£9); and seeds and plants for distribution, £25 (£6;. . . ■■ Dairy Produce. In the Dairy Produce Division tho salaries increased include: — Director, from £550 to £575. Assistant director, from £375 to £385. Other votes in this division, compared with those last yesr in parentheses, include.: —Cow-testing Association, £300 (£32); purchase of dairy requisites and produce for experiments, £350 (£150); reworking "dairy" butter, £150 (nil). Commerce Section. Under the commerce- section appeat the following items, with corresponding expenditure last year in parentheses: — Advertising and purchase of books, photographs, and distribution of pamphlets, books, etc., £200 (£56), promotion of the sale of New Zealand produce in outside markets, £300 (£B6). The subsidy of-£4BOO for the Canadian steam trade service is omitted. Tourists Department. In. the Tourists Department items of interest, with expenditure last year_ in parentheses, are: Fencing and grassing Deer Pafk, Paraparaunra,_£l72 (£69); importation and distribution of game .and'fish, £400 (£881). - .The salary of the clerk at Tβ Aroha is to be increased from £198 to £210, and that of the clerk at Rotoroa from £195 to £2io. . : . :. Other increases include: Engineer at Rotorua, £550 to £600; gardener, £168 to £204. Education Department. For free text books £4500 is allowed, against £1605 so spent in 1909, and the figures in respect of illustrations, etc., are £500 and £250 respectively. Secondary and higher education votes include £3200 for Otago University, mining, medicine, dental, and veterinary, science, with £2000. so expended la-st year. Towards the maintenance of the Home for Backward Children, £1400 wa-s devoted last year; £2500 is so scheduled this year. . Other votes under the heading miscellaneous services include: — New Zealand geology balance writer's fee £255. . :..-.*. Subsidies to public libraries, £3000. Grant ..for .'.rebuilding Paimerston North High School, destroyed by fire, £2775.', , . State Coal Mine Department. ' ■ Under this heading votes appear as under:—Houses for employees, £500'; payment of royalty to the Greymouth Harbour Board on State coal sold to the public, £1000; do. of special rate, £1000 :(against £4457 so -paid last year), purchase of land for Wellington depot, £4000, purchase and erection-of equipment do., £2000. Public Trustee. It is proposed to increase the salaries ■ of— ■ The Public Trustee from £850 to £1000. • ■ - Chief Clerk, from £505 to £550. Inspector, £450. to £500. Assistant-solicitor,. £250, to £260. The sum proposed,to be voted in respect of the office of accountant is £315, against £350 last year, and in regard to the position of examiner) £245, as against £300. ' . ~.. State Fire Insurance/ . The salary in respect of tie position of the general manager of this Department, is given at' £500, and;, small increases,are"given to some officers. ; . ■ State Advances Department. Increases in this Department'. include:- 1 -; ■ Deputy Superintendent, , £425 to £450. . : •.• .'■ .' Accountant, £265 to £300. Solicitor, £300 to £325.. ' Provision is made for a receiver at £240 per-anmim. . : . ilustics Departmont. The salary of the Registrar of the Patent Ottice has been raised from £400 to £420. In regard' to the salary of the Chief Olork'in tho Police Department there is aiF'iacrease from £390 to ; ■Tho■Registrar, Sheriff, and Registrar of tKe. Court' of-Appeal in Wellington 'is to have his salary increased irom £475 to £495. . An increase from £234 to £350 is proposed m connection with the salary of the visiting .adviser to tho .Prisons Department. Among proposed increases in connection with the Police Department are: Editor- Police Gazette, from • £219 to £250; storekeeper,. £200 to £242. Tin; Commissiaoer of Stamps, etc., will, it is proposed, get £625, as against £450 paid last year; the Accountant, £310, insteadof £295;. whilst other increases to various officers are also shown. ■ It is proposed to give the EegistrarGrneral of Land, etc., £620, instead of £600 per annum; the Deputy-Registrar, £400, in'place of £385; and the Second I Assistant, £240,. in lieu of £225. Internal Affairs. ■In the Department of Internal Af-fairs-it. is proposed that the Under-I Secretary's salary be increased from £600 to £625, and the Chief , Clerk's from £385 to £400. It is proposed that tho salary of the Cliiof Clerk of the Audit Office be raised from £500 to £550; that of the 'Clerk and Deputy Registrar-General from £290 to £305; and that of the Erfitor of the Year Book from £290 to £305. Tho sum of £50(1 is provided for preliminary expenses, in connection with tho 1911 census. ■ Tho salaries for the High - Commissioner's office amount to £6110, as against £6177 so expended last. year. The secretary is to get £700 (£763 voted for the position last year), Trade and Immigration Representative, £700 (£583), Accountant £350 (£307), Produce Commissioner £460 (£460), Veterinarian £400 (£100), and clerks and messengers £3500 (£2500). Li the Dominion Laboratory it is proposed that the Mining Chemist should receive £230, instead of £265. ■ The estimate for the Government Printer's salary is £700, against £675 last year; and that of the Superintending Overseer is £275, instead of £260. Under the heading "Scddon Memorial" appears the item, cost of grave ' and monument, £700. There is to bo an increase in tho salary of tho Inspector-General of Mental Hospitals from £950 to £975. A grant is proposed to swimming: associations of £-00.