THE IMPREST ACT.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1788, 28 June 1913, Page 6

THE IMPREST ACT.

APPROPRIATIONS TOTAL Tho Imprest Supply Act passed yesterday makes provision for appropriations totalling ,£772,400., Following aro the schedules:— FIRST SCHEDULE. £ The Consolidated Fund 500,000 Tho Public Works Fund 200,000 Aid to Water-power Works Account 15,000 Irrigation and Water-supply Account 2,000 Opening up Crown Lands for Set- , tlement Account 4,000 The National Endowment Account 300 The Land for Settlements Account 2,000 Tho State Forests Account 2,500 Tho State Coal-mines Account,... 25,000 The Scenery Preservation Account 2,400 Tho Wcllington-Hutt Railway .and Road Improvement Account... 500 The Railways Improvements Acoount 3,000 Tho Nativo Land Settlement Account 300 The Waihou and Ohiriemuri Rivers Improvements Account 1,000 £758,000 SECOND SCHEDULE. £ Tho Government Insurance Account . '>"10 The Government Accident Insurance Account ' 1»000 Tho State Fire Insurance Account 1,600 Tho Public Trust Offico Account 2,500 Tho New Zealand State-guaran-teed Advances AccountAdvances to Settlers Branch Account 2,000 Advances to Workers Branch Account 200 Advances to Local Authorities Branch .£14,400 GOVERNMENT CAUCUS. Most of. the members of tho Reform party are remaining in town for the wcelc-cnd, and the caucus which was adjourned on Wednesday evening will bo continued to-day. It is' understood that the .principal business before the caucus will bo routine preparations for the session. - NEW PARTY IN EMBRYO? A rumour, an elusive one, it should be said, is going tho rounds that there is au Independent party in embryo in the House. The member who is credited with bavin? originated tho scheme is Ml'. T. M. Wilford. and some half-a-dozen names are mentioned when the "party's" jiossibilities are being discussed. It does not, however, seen) to bo at all probable that those members will join Mr. Wilford, or that the embryo will over develop. Tho rumour need not, be taken foriously except as a possible indication that all is not quite well with the Opposition party. PRESENTING THE..SPEAKER. Three motor-cars wero requisitioned yesterday forenoon to convey tho'Hon. F, W. Lang, the nowly-clccted Speaker of the House of Representatives, his proposer and seconder in tho Speakership election, Messrs. J. Bollard, and A. S. Malcolm, and other members of Parliament, to Government House, where tho Speaker was formally presented (o his Excellency (he Governor. >