THE ESTIMATES
SELECTION OF THE VOTES
• Following are the more interesting of the items and totals in the estimates of expenditure brought down in tho House of Representatives last night■ . (In everycase the amount in parentheses is that of the expenditure last year.) Civil .List: .£27,300 (-£20,280). Interest and Sinking Fund: .£3,925,791 (.£3,190,798). Under Special Acts:, £2,093,600 (£1,452,077). Total Permanent Charges: •£6,022,334 (.£4,672,875). Legislative Departments: ,£36,120 (£31,479), , ■ . finance Departments: ,£170,9136 (£90,00®." (The' increase shown in the vote is owing to the apparent non-expenditure of a great part of last year's Naval Defence vote of £100,318.) P?st and Telegraph. Department: ■£1)366,659 (£1,294,712). Working Railways .Department: £8,045,-000-(<£2,910,854); gross revenue, estimated, .£•1,400,000, actual <£4,518,356; State sawmills, iU7G,OOO, less estimated credits .£56,000, £20,000 (.£7664). '. Public Buildings, Domains, aiufßoads: £117,200 (£100,780;. Native Department: £24,814 (.£24,878). Justice Department: <£490,625 (£458,295); saddlery and polico vans, including two motor vans for the conveyance of prisoners, and a motor-car for general' police purposes, £2200; allowance to Mr. A. T. Ngata. M.l 1 ., for services rendered in proceeding to Maiiftapohetu to induce Rua Hepetipa. to-submit to arrest, £93. Mines Department: £31,613-.(£28,552). Department of Internal Affairs: £493,723 (£401,992); travelling allowances of Ministers, <£1500 (<£1688); travelling expenses of Ministers, .£ISOO (.£1829); travelling allowances and expenses of private secretaries to Ministers, £1800 (£2131); Secretary to Cabinet (also Clerk of Executive Council £50), £575 (£550); salary, allowances, a'n<l expenses ;New Zealand oflicial war. ' correspondent, £1000 /.£552); contribution towards funds of New Zealand War Contingent Association in London for wounded and invalid New Zcalanders, £500; cancer, venereal diseases, and dental conditions, investigations "and treatment' in connection there- - with, £2000 (new vote); baths for soldiers at Public Tenid Swimming Bath. AYellington, £100; difference between ordinary and special railway fares for members of Expeditionary Porce, £12,000 (£67-12); expenses in connection with raising and distribution of various relief funds, £4000 (£2772); grant towards cost of nublication of tho scientific results of the Mawson Antarctic Exnedition, £500; grant to Philosophical Institute for research work, £250; grant to P. Lnwry/ £100 (£156); grants for special services, £3000;; investigation of
tho mosquitoes of New Zealand, J!ilO; Pacific cable, Now Zealand's ■ proportion of estimated deficiency, .£1000; telegrams beyond the Dominion, <£IG,OOO (.£11,752). Defence Department: =£494,923 (.IM-32,228); medlcalTees for examination on registration, .£IOOO . (.£575); grant to the widow of T. J. G.'ltutlnnd, lato wan-ant officer, R.N.Z.A., equivalent to one year's pay, .£205; pension of 1 ? . G. liawson, continued to his widow, .£ls; transport of troops of tlio Territorial Forces, ,£22,000 (,£9GOG). Customs, Murine, and Harbours, and Inspection of Machinery' Departments: i£IGG,OOI (.£101,225); grants to Cook Islands Government of an amount equivalent to the Customs duties collected in New Zealand on goods afterwards shipped to those islands, .£1874; refund of duty on furniture presented for use in New Zealand hospitals and charitable institutions, .£100; on half-tone blocks used in printing the Countess of Liverpool's Gift Book, .£l3; on memorial window to the late. Sir William Russell, .-£7O; on motor ambulance chassis, .£47. . Department of Labour: ' .£33,520 (£II,G7G). Department of Lands and Survey: .£237,353 (.£235,322). Department of Agriculture, Industries, and Commerce :..-;£224,523 .(,£191,774); exhibition at New York of gold medal exhibits from San Francisco Exhibition, X'3oo; experimental farm work at Ashburton, .£1500; at other locations in South Island, XGOOO. .. Education: .£1,407,857 («£1,329,166); temporary working editor, "School Journal" (ten months at .£2OS; teachers' salaries, ,£867,000 (,£822,838); capitation (including present and trade fret places), technical- and • continuation classes,.£05,000 (i£SO,OSB). ; - . State Forests:- <£32,543. (.£30,313); State' C'oal Mines: .£215,435 (i20G,458).
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Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2799, 17 June 1916, Page 14
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