MORE ESTIMATES.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 991, 5 December 1910, Page 8

MORE ESTIMATES.

} THE SUPPLEMENTARY LIST. ROADS AND BRIDGES. OVERSEA VISITS BY MINISTERS. The Supplementary Estimates, whict were brought down in tho Houso ol Representatives early on Saturday morning, contain a number of interesting items. Under the heading "General, Expense: in Legislative Department," appear vote; of £140, compassionate allowance t( widow of J. L. Cooke, late clerk ir Bills Office, and £31 compassionate allowance to widow of R. Crabb, lat< messenger. 'The cost of the Parliamentary In quiry.ro allegations of Mr. J. B. Hine M.P., including reporting, printing, anc passages, fares, and expenses of wit nesses attending committees of botl Houses is set down at £1500. The salary to bo allowed the office] who is appointed superintendent of the National Provident Fund is fixed ai £50. The Treasury votes include the item Financial Adviser to' the Govern menfc, London, balance of salary t< March 31, 1910, £57. In regard to tho conveyance of mail: by sea, there is an item: San Franciscc sorvice, £3666. Other items under tho heading o: Post and Telegraph Department in elude £260 compassionate allowance t< Louisa Lcvick, widow of W. D. Levick chief clerk, post office, Gisborne, ant an allowance of £30 to E. P. Reeve on account of the death of her hus band. New Sawmill at Kakahi. Railway Department votes emhraci one of £300 compassionate allowanci to Mrs. M. E. Calton, on account o ail injury to iier husband, and £3001 plant for new sawmill at Kakahi. Under the heading Native . Depart rnent, appears an item: "£400,; allow ance-to C. D. Pitt, late president-To kerau Maori Land Board on' re tirement." Included in tho increases of salarj in the Justice Department-, is one o: £50 to tho Visiting Adviser, and then is an item: "Expenses connected witi Reformatory Farm, Tokonui," £1000.' Additional compensation to' Jlarj M'Guire,on account of the death oi her late _ husband, Sergeant Johi M'Guire, is awarded to the extent o: £250. Compensation to children (£soo' and funeral expenses (£34) of late Con stable H. H. Hancox, accidentally drowned whilo on duty, are provided. There is a compassionate allowanc< i of £200 to Michael Quirke for loss o I his son, who was shot whilo assistinj '; the police at Palmerston North.. I Provision is also made for compas--1 sionat-e 'allowance to the widow of thf 1 late Sergeant Archibald M'Phee, to th< extent of £100. (In tho Mines Department, votes are £75 expenses of Under Secretary attending Conference of Australasian Institute of Mining Engineers ; at Mouni < Morgan; £50 special trains for meet- | ing of the institute at Waihi in 1911 , and £300 fori prospecting at Retaruk* coalfield. Printing Department votes include £220 for a computer, £72 for print ing report of' Auckland Tramways Commission, and £316 for printing repori of the Ohinemuri Commission. A vote of £500 is proyided as a ; grani v to Karitano Homo, Dunedin,".£sso. ;be- '< ing Plunket nurses, 11 at £50' each, ■and £600 subsidy to societies for the promotion of health of women and I children. \ An allowance' of £650 is set down for the New Zealand Farmers' Co-op--1 crativo Distributing Co., on account [ of losses caused by operations of Wellington State Coal depot. ;• Allowances are made of £150 to ' Wm. Tyers, Inspector of Taxes, and £200 to J. H. Richardson, ' ActingCommissioner, Taxes Department. Compassionate allowances to W. Purchase, messenger, High Commissioner's office, on retirement, £222, and £15G to widow of H. D. Matier, late temporary clerk, Postal Department-, are provided. A vote of £5000 appeared as compensation to J. J. Meikle, in full and final payment for wrongful imprisonment, but was reduced by the Houso to £2500. Thero is an item, "£IOOO. contribution towards Antarctic Expedition, Captain Scott." Coronation Votes. . Other it-ems are: Coronation expenses in Now Zealand, on account, £1000; contribution for memorial to Hon. A. Pitt,, Nelson, £300; Departmental inquiry, Taxes and Valuation Departments, £1000; and Dominion Day celebrations, 1910, £100. A donation of £1000 for .reb'ef of distress caused by disaster in Wellmgn Colliery, Whitehaven, England, ■ is proposed. The expenses in connection with the decease of King Edward VII, and accession of King George V, are set down at £400. A vote of £7400 is provided to cover the expenses in connection with military reviews, etc., during Field-Marshal Lord Kitchener's visit. There are votes of £1500 for Premier's visit Home in regard to Coronation ; £450 for Hon. G. Fowlds, and £200 for his soiretary, in connectioa with his visit to South Africa. Other votes are: Festival of Empire, £2500; additional grant to 6wimming associations, £100; grant in aid of free, art galleries, £2000; official entertainments in London during Coronation, £500; payment to shareholders Westport-Cardiff Coal Co., £1000; payment to medical officer, London, £1000; payment to Public Service Superannuation Fund for 1910, in rcr.pect' of Polico Provident Fund, £2500; mid subsidy of £300 (£ for £) to Bickertnn Fund.' aTIio following ' gratuities are provided : Widows of late' members of Legislature, Mrs. . Baume, £300; Mrs. Trask. £300; Mrs. Holmes. £300; and Mrs. Scotland, £300, besides a gratuity of £100 to Mrs. Harris for special services rendered by her ■ late husband. An item appears: Seddon memorial— Cost of grave and monument (additional), on account of £3000, £500; also subsidy of £ for £ on subscription for Seddon memorial (bust), to bo placed in Seddon Memorial Technical College, Auckland. Defence. Defence votes include: £110, visit of cadet representatives to England and Canada; £250, passages and expenses of cadets attending Australian Military College-; compassionate allo.wanco to James Mathers, on account of tho loss of their son, £100; and payment to James MTjeavey, in rcspect of liabilities of the Horowhenua Mounted Riflo Corps, disbanded, £128. There is to bo a compassionate allowance to Mrs. Thos. Redmond, on account of fatal accident to her son, an officer in tiie Customs Department. Marino Department votes include £250 as grant for improvement and maintenance of Foxton Harbour; compassionate allowance to Kathleen Clements, owing to the death of her 'husband, £100; £1000 for installation of wireless telegraph apparatus on one steamer. / . Agricultural Department votes include: Collection of statistics, £700; expenses bush-sickness, £200; purchase of,stud stock £600j young meai's

I quarters at Ruakura, £1500; guarantee on experimental shipment of apple 3 - £325.

Expenses in connection with various exhibitions are: Argentine, £750; Bri-tish-Japan, on account, £200; : Roubaix, on acounfc £2250, £200. Thero is an additional vote of £1000 for subsidies to public libraries on basis of voluntary contribution. Public works votes include: £2000 Foxton-New Plymouth (Manawapou de- ). viation); new steamer Lake lVakatipu, on account, £10,000; reduction of grades and improvement of curves on :h North Island Main Trunk line and -,f branches. There arc votes of £700 (Government House Auckland, repairs and renova- '£ tions); £1500 (ditto, refurnishing); Parliament Buildings, alterations to streets surrounding grounds, on ac,s count, £2000; and £1000 purchase of [ land Quinton's corner, on account, ™ £1000. in te ROADS AND BRIDGES VOTES. te . - WELLINGTON DISTRICT. Additional votes for roads and bridges 6 ' in the Wellington district are—Carring'd ton Road (Upper), (£1 for £1), £150; t- Saunders Road (£1 for £1), £100; Ma;h ngaro,- £50; Aim Ahu,-£250; ■ Ridge Road, £150; Murray's Track (deviation), (Mataroa Township), £100; Ross 2r Track (continuation), (Mataroa Township), £250; Tauakira Block (devia-t-ion), £500; AVanganui River Road (left bank), £200; Ngahape Road (£1 1: for £1), £200; Waipaws. River Bridge, Waipawa (£1 for £1), «00; Waipukurau Traffic' Bridge (repairs),'(£l for , £1), (on account) £250; Lagoon Road s -(north), £100; Manaia, £50; Manga:o rere, £100; Akitio River Bridge (£2 for c £1), (on account of £800), £200; Ma--0 kuri to Pongaroa (£1 for £1), £200; P>" Otawliao, £200; Pahiatua to Makuri 1 (£1- for £1), £200; Otangauo Stream j Bridge (Fauhy's), £250; Craigielea, £100; Kaiwhat-a, £150; Mangarai, £150; C) Master ton to Tinui (£1 for £1), £50; s " Mikimiki, £50; Bimutaka Hill (improvement), £150; Ruakokopa'tuna, £50; Waihonga Bridge (£1 for £3), (on account), £250; Wharau to flat Point, =e £100; Gladstone Road, £100; Harris = p Road, £75; Ngarr.ra R-oad, £100; OdJin's Road, £100; Otaki Gorgo Road (£1 for £1), £250; Phillips Road, £200: Porirna Railway Station to Mental Hospital, £50; Shannon to Eketav" huna, £150; Mungaroa River Bridge, °" £300; Mungaroa to Upper Hutt, £50; Whiteman's Valley, £50. •y of A' FLAX-DRESSING MACHINE. re ; » REFUND OF DUTY, "y On the item, "Refund of duty on sf patent fiax-arcs&ing machine, £1320, V in the Minister in charge of the Depart°f ment (the Hon. T. Mackenzie), in reply to Mr. T. E. Taylor, explained that the 3) machine in question had been_ imported a- into tho Dominion by people interested ly in fostering the flax industry. The cost • was £6100, and tho Government pro--30 posed to make a refund of the amount of of tho duty paid. ig Pressed for further - information by Mr. Ma-ssey, the Minister explained s- that the machino was "the. first of its 16 kind, and the Government in its desiro 10 to oncourago efforts >to improve the treatment of flax had conceded - the refund of this particular duty. Tho machine was so constructed that in ad;i- dition to its main function of dressing the flax, fee method of which enhanced the value of tho fibre, certain by-l-i products could also be treated; He had no .information as to results. So far as ho knew, tho machine was not yet in use. k" Mr. W. H. Field (Otaki) mentioned that the Flax Millers' Association had been assured. that the Government was ; prepared to consider proposals for the 'improvement of the industry, and a T- -asked-to supply the.necessary details. I >' """■ The"passage of the Supplementary '® Estimates through Committee was com- " pleted at 4.40 p.m. ... n. ;