THE SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATES

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2299, 5 November 1914, Page 6

THE SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATES

SOME OF THE VOTES Following are some of the more interesting of the votes on the Supplementary Estimates:— - . . Education Boards, subsidies on bequests and contributions, £600. University Colleges, subsidies on bequests and contributions, £1000. House Staffs, ' Reader and Clerk of Bills, House of Representatives (£200), £10; Record Clerk (£160), £10; Chief- Librarian (£550), £25; Assistant-Librarian (£375), £15; two assistants (£285 and £190), £15. each, £30; two assistants (£285 and'£2lo), £10 each, £20; Hansard reporters (seven at" £375, three at £365), each £10, £100; Clerk to Hansard Supervisor (£195), £10; Committee Reporter (£200), £10. Attendants and nightwatchmen increases amounting to £58. Other Votes. '. Bonus to messengers and orderlies, 40 at £5/£2OO. Bonus to attendants, 44 at £5, S at £3, £226. Compassionate allowance to widow of late Donald M'Leay> £50. Grants to Bellamy's, £200. Treasury. Increased salary, ono at £850 (also Superintendent Stato Advances Office £100), £25; one at £470, £25. Postal Department. Madrid Postal Conference—Grant to Secretary to cover expenses of self and private secretary, £428: steamer fares. £200. . ■ ■ Compensation to widow of late J. MComiskey, postmaster, Upper-Hutt, £520. ... • ■ .. : Native Department. Increase to salaries, one at £700, £25; compassionate allowance to widow of late H. P. PaTata, £45. Justice Department. Increases to salary- One at £675, £2-5 ; grant to the Rt. Hon. Sir Joshua Williams to cover travelling expenses to England, £500; increase to.salary, one at £700, £25. ; - ■ ■ '. . Mines, " Allowance to sufferers from pneumoconiosis, £500. Compassionate allowance to widow of late W. C. Gasquoirie, general manage State Coal Mines, £500. Huntly Commission, £200. . Grant to relieve distress consequent on Huntly accident (on. account), £200., ./■ '. ■ • '• ■ ■ - • ' Printing report of Huntly Commission, £20U. ' ■ ' . Internal Affairs. Increase to salary—One at £625, £25. ' Commissions of Inquiry (additional), £700. M. . •■; . • . Hector Observatory, clearing ground, £200. Grant towards expenses of InspectorGeneral of Hospitals when visiting British and other hospitals and institutions, £200, . - : ■ Smallpox epideinio (additional), ■£3000. -■■ .. .... ■:,■■■- ■.. i

Subsidies to nursing associations. .£SOO. . ■ "■■.:■.■ •.-.■.■■ . Subsidy: to,Plunket nurses;. £200. Allowance to Lady: Guinness, £500. Cost of war risks insurance scheme, £150. .. ■ ■-. . . .-; ■■ Expenses in connection with visit of His Exocllency the Governor to Gb'ok .Islands (additional), £2000. • Grant _to F. Lawry, £160.- ■ Historical records of New -.Zealand (Hon." It: M'Nab), cost of ■ printing, £400. ■ ■ . -'■. ■ - ■''.■'■■ Defence. - Increase to salary—lnspector of Riflo Ranges (£375), £25. ' Customs and Marine. 'Increase to salary—One at £700, £25j Aquarium, Newtown Park, expenses, £250. •'•■-■: .;,-.. Auckland Waterways Commission, £ioop;. : ■ .-;.■ Grant * to ; Robert Pitcaithley for losses in connection with Wellington dock, £200.;' ■■- ; ■ ■ Legal and'other expensee of Mr. W. T/ Jennings, an action to remove Mm from the >Vaitara Harbour Board, , £19. Payment to diver for examining wreck of : Kairaki, £100. •■ . ' - Labour. ' Increase to at £625, £23; one at £180 (£2O), (eight months), £14, i--, ■,-. Lands. to salary—One at £800, £50; one,-at £650, £25. \ Agriculture. ', Inorease to salary, at £650, £25.' Grant to leaao Hopkins,for services in connection with tne bee industry, £1501' . : .:. .- ;- . ■'',• , . ■ ■ '.Freight on fertilisers and seed wheat for patriotio purposes, £230. ■• •■ Porchase of wheat in Australia, £11,274. : Transit expenses to San Francisco for E. Clifton and family, £145; A. Macpherson and family, £200; M. O'Brien and family, £250. •' ' - Eduoation. . ■ Increases to salaries; at-£825, £50: at £675, £25. . •• ; 'Council of Education, allowances and travelling expenses •of membere, £250. Lectures by Professor Findlay (additional), £130. ' •■■ State Fire. V Commission on Profits—General Man. «Ker, £200; contributions to fire boards, £C 0; :■: . . '■'■':

Publlo Works. Increases to salaries—l at £925/ £25: 1 at £65Q, £25. ■ , . .' ; Allowance to F. W. Furkert, Inspecting Engineer, towards cost of defray- ■ ing travelling expenses on his recent visit to Europe and America in connection with irrigation and light railways, £150. ~ ■■■•■.• .... ■■-. Pouto Point game eanctuary, £1000. Government Printing Office, additions (on account), £5000.' • Reformatory for Women, £1000. ■ Hastings, P. and T. storage yard, £300. ; • ; . ■ • ■ Ohakune East, P. and T. Office site, £400. . / ■•■■... Special school for girls, £4000. Harbours. . . Akitio, on account of £15,000- for harbour improvement, £1000: Hokitika, sea protective-works (additional), £500. •■••:. Toiirlst. Tonga Tiro National Park Hostel huto' tracks improvement! £500. Road Votes. Karioi to Eangiwaea (on account of Waimarino £4000) (£1 for £1), £250; •TVaipapa (Tauakira Block), (£lfor £1), Wanganui, £150; Waihau, Hawke's Bay, £250; Wairoa-Napier Road, £1000; Waiwakaiho River Bridge (£1 for £2), Taranaki, £300; Egmont Road (Upper), £100; Maikai, £200; Autawa, Clifton, £100; York Road, £100; .Moki (East End), Wliangamomona, £100; Manawaiwiri Stream Bridge (£1 for £1), Stratford, ■£100;,\Vaiwiri Stream Bridfie (£1 for£l), £100; To Popo Stream Bridgo (£1 for £1), Stratford), £100; Waitotara River Bridge (Lower), \(on a&count of £800 (£1 for £1), Patea, £250; Ahiiiihn to Kauarapaoa, Waitotara, £250; Wirilmna (£1 for £1), Hawcra, £100; Maii(xntcweka Stream Bridgo, liiinsitikei, £250; Mangaweka Township (Main Road),(£l for £1), £100; Whareroa (Piirakiiretu Block) (£1 for £1), Kanuitikoi, £250; Hill Top Road (£1 far £1V Kairanira and Horowhemlx

£200; Torere, Rangitikei, j£J2oOl Mangoira, luwitea, £150: Jen-' Ben Koad (access to Section 2, Block V, Makaretu S.D.), Waipawa, £200; Pahw " atua to Pongaroa (on account of £800), (£1 for £1), Pahiatua, £400; Wood'? ville to Makairo-Coonoor Road(£l foi £1), £400; Matheson's Corner (Gorge* Balance Road), Pahiatua, £100; Quarry Bead, Eketahuna, £200; Pof» and feauhders Boad, Masterton, £200:'Wa». ngaehu, Hauricoville, £200; Mt. Holds* worth. Track, Masterton, £50: Hoiki, Wairarapa South, £50; Makahakf ■Hjdge, Masterton, £225; roads to opea up: Oroua Block, £700. Unauthorised Expenditure. •£° st i s ? f °- B - Morison in connection * with drafting Native Land Amendment p ! '/foi^ 111 ,? Rati ng Act Amendment ?i of West Coast Set ., tlement Bill, 1913, £525 ■ Gr ? tU i ts i to , Mrß< lf - on ao ... count of death of her husband, Dr. A.'