THE SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATES

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 32, 1 November 1917, Page 5

THE SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATES

, A LIST OF VOTES

The Supplementary Estimates for this year were brought down in the House ot llepresentatives yesterday morning, following aro tho most important or interesting votes in the Estimates:— Tho war bonuses for the various Departments are as follow:—Legislative, £955; Treasury, £540; National Provident, £380; Land and Income Tax, £600; Pensions, £1GO; Post aud Telegraph, £66,001); Kiiilwiiys (war bonus aud increased allowances), .6265,000; Native Department, .£700; Justice, £2200; Prisons, •CiMliO; Cook Islands, ,£180; Police, .£12,000; Stamps, £100; Land and Deeds Hegistry, £1200; Mines, .£475; Internal Affairs, £8320; Audit, £1000; Printing and Stationery, £5100; Mental Hospitals, 48750; Tourists, .£3000; Public Scrvico Commissioner's Office, £141; Publio •Health,. £1700; Adjutant-General's Branch, .£5000; Customs, £2100; Marine, ..£2160; Labour, ,£880; Lands and Survey, .£9000; Valuation, .0908; Agriculture, £6200; Education, £60,815; State Forests, .82550; State Coal Mines, .£575; Public Trustee's Office, .£3500; Government Insurance, .£1200; State Fire Insurance, £525; State Advances Office £600. In many Departments speoial allowances are granted to officers temporarily performing Higher duties. Following aro other items on the Estimates :— Legislative Departments.—Bonus to Par. liamentary watchmen, attendants, charwomen, otc, during eession, £340; charwomen (additional), £700; printing of Hansard (additional), £1500. Post and Telegraph Department.—Halfpay to experts with the forces, £2712; purchase of motor-cars, £2500; fraudulent withdrawals from Post Office Savings Bank, £930; Post Office inquiry at Auckland, £450; Working Railways Department; caeh etole/i nt Nelson station, £030; increased night allowances to members of Division II and allowances to members on transfer in excess of tho regulations £7000. Public Buildings.—Purchaso of Lands in Wellington settlement for post and telegraph purposes, £770; Veterans' Home, Auckland (repairs and renovations), £500.

Native Department—Refund of amount recommended by Judges MacG'orinick and Wilson to bo paid in respect of rents retained by the Government in. Tβ Haka No. 7 and Te Tapuae Blocks, Eotorua. .£560.. .

Prisons Department.—Superintendent Borstal Institution, Invercargill (six months), £250; administration of Fmt Offenders' Probation Act and preventive work, ,£700; refund of licenso fees overpaid in. error by the New Zealand. Lonn ami Mercantile Agency Co., .£IOOO. Mines Department.—Advances to oilboring companies, iiJOOfl; expenses in connection with conferences between Government and Miners' Federation and coal-mine owners, .£350. To cover defalcations and deficiencies of H. E. Eadoliffe, late chief clerk, Mines Department, .£SOO.

Internal Affairs.—Private secretary and official secretary to tho Governor-General, ■£500; cost of administration and expenses in connection with the censorship of kinematograph films (additional), .£500; fresh-water fisheries (eipenses in connection with), including vrages of workmen, purchase of land, and erection of buildings (additional), official war correspondent (salary, allowance, and expenses), .£1600; renovation of graves of New Zealand soldiers who, died within the Dominion in connection with the present war, and expenses incidental thereto, ,£250; renovation of graves of soldiers and others who were killed or died in connection with the Maori War (additional), MOO; administration of Military Service. Act, E*gistration of Aliens Act, ,£2500; preparation and printing of rolls (additional), .£17,000; insurance or High Commissioner's staff against air-raid risks, ,£SO; refund to officers of High Commissioner's Office of difference between the amount of income tax payable in England and New Zealand, .£750; expenses in connection with war section of Museum and with tho British National War Museum, iilOO; scientific and industrial research, .£250; compassionate allowance to and expenses to Guide M'Cprmick in connection with tho eruption at Waimangu, ifMOO; administration of Social Hygiene. Act, i£1500; medical and nursing services in country districts, ,£2000; expenses iu connection with Advisory Medical Board, •£250; compensation to W. Davey, post <itiice messeuger (Wellington) for injuries received when opening a tin containing poison, .£SO; expenses in connection with the raising and distribution of various relief funds, including .postage and railway fare, concessions to patriotic societies and freight on gift goods, .£6000; establishment and maintenance of New Zealand Hospital at Etrambieree, France, .£IO,OOO (less amount recoverable from war expenses account, .£3000); expenses in connection with kineinatograph films token in France and elsewhere for patriotic purposes (additional), .£750; cost of entertaining visitors to the Dominion and of official functions (additional), ,£100; expenses in connection with tne review ot New Zealand troo/ps and the King on Salisbury Plain and similar functions, .£100; grants in settlement of petitions referred to Government for favourable consideration, ,£1500; grant to V. Lawry (additional), .£100; grant to Minister of Agriculture and private secretary to cover expenses of visit to Australia in connection with the purchase of wheat, o£l'2; preservation of aboriginal rook paintings, .£250; grant to Hutt County Council in full and final payment for. upkeop of road between Trentham Camp and Taita, .£3OO.

Customs Department.—Expenses incurred in obtaining confidential information from United States and Canada concerning tho value and origin of goods, i£soo; towards cost of river protection works, ' Waikanae, £U>; bridges across Raneilniki and Tarawerea Rivers, .£2000; purchase of sheep for Kapiti Island, ,£500; remission of rent to members of Expeditionary Forces (additional), ,£502; roading .preparing for settlement of Crown lands, Mokoreta Survey District, Southland, .£2000; value of improvements on pastoral and email grazing runs on expiry of licence (payment of to outgoing lessees),.additional, .£4OOO. Department' of' Agriculture.—Carnage of starving etnek, .£2675; purchase, of wheat in Australia and New Zealand, .£100,000; Government meat shops (purchase of stock and general working expenses), ,£40,000; investigation of Montane tussock land, South Island, iSOO. Education Department.—Teachers salaries, including pupil teachers' and probationers' allowances (additional), ,£1000; additions to incidental allowances for fichool committees,' supplementary to payments under the eighth schedule of the Kdiicallon Act, li)W (war provision), X 9000; observation school, salaries of special teachers, additions to salaries and allowances (additional), .£995; special allowances (continuation) to teachers ot Chatham Islands schools, .£53; New Plymouth High School, grant towards cost of reinstatement of buildings destroyed by lire, «C 5000; general matntenr.nce of public school buildings, ett. (additional), .£5000; training classes for returned soldiers; capitation, etc., .£300; war bursaries, £MO.

The following estimates urn for services chargeable on the Public Works Fund:-

Public Buildings.—Converting old post office building, Auckland, into offices for Government Departments, J!1300; atlditional lavatory accommodation Wellington Departmental buildings, .£450; converting old police station, Dunedin, into offices for Government Departments £•4(1(10; rc-crpcting cairn (late Sir John M £iOO. Estimate* for services chargeable on tlin State Forests account:— Plantations, Balmoral (additional), .£926; Conical Hills (additional), ,£350; Grccnvale (additional), .£I2OO. Stato Coal Miners.—Additional payment to employees of State coal mines under industrial agreements, JJIO.OOO. |'iii'li( T'lislf-e'fi Account.—Salaries two Assistant Public Trustees (six months), X'lOdil: grunt to Dr. Fitclioll, Public Ti-itsii'p. t.ii relirnment, ,£SOO. llnuullioriscd Expenditure Account.— The unauthorised expenditure- account showed a fotnl sum of .£148,0fi5 Cs. The principal it™' B wor6: T n ' e ™ s t p«J'l *" Imperial T'ensnry ».nd half-year to Uarcb 31, 191G- on war nilvancfn ol.l'iined 'on the ?ec:irity of the Refiervo ghnd securities, Willi; payment to N.Z. ?hinnin" Co., Ltd., for detention of s.o. Rotonia at Wellington for one day, £?,ot>; ir»nt to Mr. John Ollen, CommißSwnor ot Volioe in lieu of leave of cbarace nn retirement, JK)7S; advances to oil-bor-

ing companies, grant to cover eipenses of visit of Prime Minister and Minister of Finance to England, £3000; Kraut to covor oxy.nsos of private secretaries accompanying Prinio Minister nnd Minister of Finance, £1001); espouses incurred in connection with the opening ceremony of the Queen Mary Military Hospital, Hannier. £328; cost of trunks purchased by the Minister in chiu , go > of the Cook Islands in connection with vi-.it of His Excellency tho Governor to the Cook Islands, £23; supplies from tho Army and Navy Co-operative Stores lor New Zealanders in nlicn enemy torritories, £.52; payment to Mayor of Clirißtchiuch of £100 to bo paid by instalment to Mrs. Alico AVeston, widow of tho late Staff .Sergeant-Mnjor H. G. Westou, NZPS., £100; refund of amount paid by the Mayor of Wellington's Patriotic Committee on account of moneys spent for the purpose of supplying musical instruments to tho various reinforcement drafts leaving New Zealand, £500; _ expenses of Commission of Inquiry into the state of Wnipori and Taieri iiivers, Ota«o, £301.