THE SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATES

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2509, 12 October 1915, Page 6

THE SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATES

SOME OF THE VOTES

MANY INTERESTING ITEMS

Tho Supplementary Estimates, which were passed by tho House last night, contained rather more votes of general interest than usual. < Following were the more important of the general votes, and also those of local interest:— War Expenditure. £ Interest on advances on account of War Loan; say '.. 275,000 Miners' Phthisis Act, Pensions 3,000 War Pensions 150,000 Legislative Departments. Staff of Minister leading Legislative Council 150 Retiring allowance -■ to Major Shepherd, Jate Serjeant-at-Arms, equal to half his yearly salary .120 Bonus to Parliamentary Com-. mittee clerks (5 at £5) . 26 Increase to salary, clerk Hansard supervisor 10 Officer in chargo Parliament Buildings (£450), increase ... 50 Bonus to attendants 225 Grant to Bellamy's 800 Passages of members (additional)' 600 Allowance to late Assistant Librarian in lieu of 3 months' notice - . 75 War Pensions. Honoraria of members of War Pensions ' Board, (one at £1000, 6 months, one at £50, six months) 75 Medical fees on account of war pensions 100 Travelling expenses ' 100 Public Buildings. Rents .:. 2,500 Nelson Departmental Buildings, additions and repairs, etc. ... 500 Wellington (motor garage extension) 850

Professional Serviocs, Services of Mr. C. B. Morison: ' Drafting Native Land Amend 1 - 1 ment Bill, drawing series of clauses for Native land Claims Adjustment Bill, drafting Hating Act Amendment Bill, and drafting West Coast Settlement Act' Amendment Bill during session of 1914' 76 Grant to Professor .J. W. Salmond, Solicitor-General, for special services iu preparing the Cook Islands Bill 7 810 Payment to.M. Myers, solicitor, Wellington, in respect of work done in connection with the West Coast Settlement . Reserves Amendment Act, 1913 273 . Internal Affairs. Expenses of national register 2,000 Expenses of by-elections : 600 Amount required! to fill places of officers on leave with the Expeditionary Force 2,950 District Nursing Associations (grant) 500 Cost of repatriating to Samoa 64 natives exiled to Saipan by the German Governor of Samoa (on account) . .. 500 Cost of administering war. risk insurance scheme (additional) 2,000 Grant to P. Lawry, late M.P. (additional) :. 100 Gratuityto widow of late mem- • ber of Legislature, Mrs. G. Laurenson (additional) 300 Gratuity to widow of late member of Legislature, Mrs. . Bollard 300 Payments, to retired officers 1 (Messrs. Strauchon, Vickerman, Hogbcn, and Petrie), acting on commissions 279 Payment to the Teachers' Superannuation Fund of amount of arrears due '.by the late Captain J. H. Goulding (killed in action) 96 Payment to officers of the Public Service for performance of special duties 500 Provision for petitions, etc., . under consideration 1,000 Board of Trade. Salaries of members of the. Board of Trade:— I One at £1000 One at £600 One at : £600 £2,200 Public Works. Melling Settlement lload forma- . tion .......! 100 New Public Buildings, Nelson "3 3 750 Wellington, Defence Headquarters (additions) 600 Paekakariki Hill (£1 for £1) ... 50 Tiniahanga Road. (Waipiuva) ... 100 Allan Creek Bridge (Collingwood) 100 Blenheim to Stronvar (£1 for • £1) 150 Mangapapa (Wliangamomona) 200 Miscellaneous. Instruction of polite in jiujitsu ; 1 15 Compassionate allowance to Louis Gabriel, Rcefton, first discoverer of gold, West Coast, South Island ; 25 Remission of duty on flour and wheat .(additional) 1,250 Remission of duty on oats (additional) ... 250 Procuring and maintaining launch for Wellington Marine Surveyors 400 Expenses of Wellington Patent Slip Inquiry 21 Planting Oysters'in Cook Strait ■50 Irrecoverable fee for seaworthiness surrey of s.s. Walkure 2 Repairing and improving Konepuru Canal 60 Survey of site for fislierman'3 landing place, Waikauae ..... 40 Allowance to International Association for Labour legislation, Basle, towards cost of collecting and publishing. information respecting the Labour laws of various countries 5 Wanganui River mail service (subsidy, additional) ........... 581 Carriage of starving stock and fodder for same 500 Purchase of wheat iu Australia 400 Comnassiouate allowance to widow of late Thomas Boothroyd Garlick, Director of Physical Training in Public Schools ....'. .. 300 Amount expended in connection 1 with purchase lof wheat in Canada,. £208,911, less amount received on sale of wheat, £115,139 93,771 Travelling allowances to C. E. Matthews, Inspector of Prisons, while visiting Australia to study the Australian Prisons System 93 Contribution to Huntly Fund ' 200 Cost of repairing motor-car used by tlio Prime Minister, which was maliciously damaged at public meeting in Ponsonby; Auckland ........ 20 Freight, etc., on gifts to Belgians 456 Payment of war risk insurance premiums of provisional declarations made oil goods ordered for shipment on various vessels in accordance with Imperial Government's reinsurance scheme 3,249 Allowances and expenses of the board a pointed to iiiviv,'.ijjata claims for N.Z. war medal > u 68

Special allowances to officers and iion-conimissioncd (fiicer.s temporarily employed en tho N.Z. Staff Corps and Permanent Staff to replace officers \vho ' aro absent with Expeditionary Forco Remission of duty on Christmas and Now Year presents sent by members of the N.Z. Expeditionary Forco Expenses of Valuation of Land Commission .• Expenses of G. L. Tacon's visit to South America to investigate and report upon the market prospects for the snle of New Zealand fruit in South America