SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATES

Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 41, 12 November 1920, Page 8

SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATES

* MANY ADDITIONAL VOTES , INCREASES IN SALARIES AND WAGES t. " ' '* .a : SOME INTERESTING ITEMS

0 Tho Supplementary Estimates were • placed before the House of Ilepresentaj lives yesterday afternoon. The votes, which were passed by the House during the afternoon, amount to more than 1 £2,500,000. A substantial part of the I total is duo to additional votes to the various Departments "to provide for uni--1 form cost of living increase to scale salaries or. wages,'subject to revision as '" cost of Jiving rises or falls." n Tho main votes are as follow, the first 0 column containing the Supplementary s Estimates and tlio second' column the |" sum of the main Estimates and Sup- '" pleinontary Estimates for the year end- * ing March 81 next:— '- Ordinary Revenue Account, i Supplomen- Total n tary for Estimates. Year. Permanent Appropriations— 0 Civil List 3,375.. 33,475 |" Inlercßt'and Sinking '; Fund' - 8,626,655 \ ■ Under Special Acts a of tho Legislature 142,400 4,310,913 B 145,775 12,971,043 0 ', Annual Appropriations— a Legislative Depart--1 menu 20,166 . 70,910 " Departments of '• Finance 185,317 1,248,349 1 Pest and Telegruph 0 '- Department ..- 263,805 2,606,042 : ' Working Railways 9 Department 626,515 5,239,015 9 Public Buildings, 1 Domains and Mainsi tenanoo of Roads 7,122 185,922 ' Cook Islands 3,499 10,124 ? Native Department 5,130 • 35,985 i Justice Department 79,936 • 737,487 - ' Mines Department 10,615 ' 52,460 t Department of In--1 ternnl Affairs 373,455 812,239 i Mental .Hospitals, Public Health, / - i . Hospitals, and Charitable Aid Dea partments 89,078 509,046 Tourist Department 11,904 88,474 i Defence Department 88,660 639,253 r Customs, Marine and l Harbours, nnd Inspection of ■ Machinery Depart- i .merits :' 38,687 ' 296,620 / Department of LaI bour 5,901 46,490 i Department of Lands and Survey 84,530 368,663 ) Valuation and Electoral Departments 16,731 86,112 Department of Agri- ; culture 32,311 322,308 F Minister of Educa- ; tion Cr:2»,735 2,557,827 1,914,127 15,982,356 Total 2,059,902 28,953,399 ' Public Works ' Fund. I ''..£■£ \ • Public Works, Departmental 376 175,376 ' £ Railways— Railway Construction ... 800,000 • Additions to Open Lines 450,000 - 1,250,000 1 Public Buildings ■ 13,965 621,465 Lighthouses, Harbour Works, and Harbour Defences 6,350 26,350 Tourist and Health Resorts 1,000 31,000 Immigration 1,600 76,000 Construction, Maintenance, and' Supervision of Roads, Bridges,- nnd other Public Works 59,809 709,809 Development of Mining — 3,000 Telegraph Extension.. — . 500.000 Contingent Defence ... — 15,000 Lands Improvement ... 5,000 12,000 Irrigation and Water Supply - ' 40,000 Plant, Material, and Stores — 200,000 Total 88,100 3,660,600 Other. Accounts, Supple- -Total mentary for Estimates. Year. £ £ State Forests Account ... 148,100- 290,144 State Coal Mines Account 1,935 284,127 Nauru and Ocean Islands — 600,000' Land for Settlements ... 3,274 - 14,605 Land for SettlementsRoads to open up Land for Settlements 2,890 252,800 Electric Supply 75,000 .675,000 Fishing Industry Promotion 25,000 25,000 Native Land Settlement 105 4,287 Discharged Soldiers' Set- , tlement — 25,000 War Exponses .' 203,230 3,619,930 Wcstport. Harbour Board 37,680 37,680 Public Trustee's,...', 21,520 212,077 Government Insurance ... 11,604 105,872 Government Accident Insurance 600 8,700 State Fire Insurance 7,370 89,140 State Advances- 3,564 582,739 Housing 27,989' 797,106 Scenery .Preservation .... 804 14,915 Railways Improvement. Authorisation Act, 1914 - 200,000 Wriihou and Ohinemuri Rivers Improvement — 40,000 Education Loans —- 500,000 Some of the detailed votes in the Supplementary Estimates are'as follow:— . Legislative Department. £ Bill Drafting Department— Lnw Draftsman (transferred. from Crown Law Office) 900 Assistant Law Draftsman— 1 at .£550,. 1 at .£SOO (3 months) 675 Compilation DepartmentCompiler of Statutes (£7OO, 3 months) • 175 •.Library: Grant to (additional) 200 | Printing of Hansard (additional) ... 4,500 : Gompnssioiiaie allowance to widow of late Captain Home, Sergeant-at-Arms .'. : 250 Compassionate allowance to widow of late R. G. Thomson, Hansard Reporter 200 Compassionate allowance to widow of lato W. Leslie, nnnsnrd Reporter 200 Compassionate allowance to widow ' of late E. D. Dunne, Committee Clerk 100 Department of External Affairs. Visit of Parliamentary Party to Pacific Islands— £ Charter of steamer (additional)... 5,500 Incidental expenses (additional) ... 1,700 r Industries and Commerce, £ Government Firewood Depot (additional) , 5,000 ' Exhibits at British Empire Exhibition in Loudon (additional) 500 Purchase of wheat (additional) ... 100,000 Post arid Telegraph Department, Increases to Salaries.—Administrative Division—l at £1200 (secretary), £50; 1 (it £1000*(Chief Telegraph Engineer). £200; 1 at £850 (First Assistant Secre.. tary), £150; 1 at £775 (Second Assistant Secretary), £125. Professional Division.—l at £800 (Deputy Chief Telegraph' Engineer), £100; 1 at £800 (Superintending Engineer), £50. • Clerical Division.—l at £800 (Controller of Savings Banks and Accounts), £50; 1 at £800 (Chief Inspector), £50. • Additional amount required to provido a uniform cost-of-living inoreaso to scale salaries or wages, subjoct to revision as the cost of living rises or falls—£l4o and under, at £20, £53,260; over £140. Ut £50, £246,854. ]

b Railways Department. Amount required to. provide for in- [ creases in pay of railway staff, including , additional pay to casual hands—Head L , office, Departmental offices, and working e expenses of sections, .€750,000; less . amount provided for in the Goncra-i'.Es-timates for cost-of-living tonus, £170,000; s cost-of-living bonus for stall', January 1 to March 31, 1920, £42,000; increased t marriage allowance to staff and payment y to cadets mid crossing-keepers in excess e of wale, April 1, 1919, to March 31, 1920, ~ xisoo . ■ Expenses' in connection with members of Hallway. Department visiting Australia, England, and America on official business, £550; salary, E. H. Hile.y, General Manager, for period of accrued annual leave, .£IOBS. Public Buildings. Government House, Wellington (additional), 42550. 5 New Police Training DcrJot, Wollington district (site acquired from Wadding--5 ton Settlement), £2122, 3 Department of Justice. * Compassionate allowance to widow of 3 the late G. H. Vcale, crier, Supremo - Court, Wellington, £270. Crown Law Office. ' " Increases to Salaries.—Professional Division—l Crown solicitor at £900, .£100; 9 1 Crown solicitor at £900. .£150; 1 , Crown solicitor at .1800, illOO. Mines Department. Assistance towards prospecting or mining for mineral oils and natural gas, , £2000. ' J Bonus of 4d, por.lb. for the production ' of the first 100,0001b. of good inarketj able rotorfed quicksilver, JtlUtiTi Prospecting for coal and minerals other than nold (additional), £2000. ' Department of Internal Affairs. Fire Brigades Annual • Conference (grunt in aid;, (additional),-£7OO. Hector Observatory:, instruments and j equipment (additional),.. £100. • ■ [ Wax graves of memuors of New ZeaI land Expeditionary Force who died, in New iiuaiand or en route, £5000. Weight and Measures Acts (additional), £679. Board of Science and Art expenses I incidental to (including Ritblieatious), (additional), £1700. I Expenses in connection with the War Section of the Museum and the British I National . Wnr. Museum (additional), £1000. ! Subsidy for Aucklnnd Museum Building Fund, £25,000. .- Compassionate allowance to 'widow, or the Hon. W. D. S. Mac Donald, £2000. Cost of entertaining visitors to the Dominion and of official functions, (additional), £1000. ... Cost-of-living bonus to annuitants under Public' Service, Railways, and' Teachers' Superannuation Fund and Civil Service Act, 1908, £100,000. Sir James Allen's expenses, proceeding- to London, £500. Sir Thomas Mackenzie, exj>on66s London to New Zealand on retirement, £500. ■ , Towards expenses of New Zealund representatives at- the Olympio Gamos at Antwerp £250. To New Zealand Amateur Swimming Association (additional), £50. To Royal Life Saviiiir Society, ,£175. To J. P. Andrews, Into Secretary to Cabinet, and Clerk of the Executive Council in recognition of long" service, £250. - To H. G. Btl, A. E. Glover A. W. Hogg, J. T. M. Hornßby. and C. H. - Mills, ex-members of the House, each £120 ' Influenza epidemic, Samoa: Expenses Australian relief party, £5400. ■ Investiture at Government House: Transport expenses of persons attending to receive decorations £250. Pan-Pacific Scientific- Congress, Hono- , lulu: Expenses of Gbvernment representative, £400. Payment to Eeuter's Telegram Company for special telegrams (additional), £600. Racine Commission; under provisions of the Gaming Amendment Act (No. 2), 1920: Expenses incidental to, including travelling expenses. of members, £2000. _ Railway Superannuation Fund: Contribution, £50,000. Returned Soldiers' Association annual conference: Railway fares of delegates, £250. ' . Stranded immigrants in Sydney, assistance to, £25. Subsidy, Mothers' Help Division, ' Women's National Reserve: £1 for every £2 raided by reserve up to £100, £100. Subsidy (£1 for £1) towards memorial to the into J. Colvin," M.P., £150. Subsidy (£1 for £1) towards memorial »o the Into J. Bollard, M.P., £150. Visit of H.R.H. tho Prince of.Wnles: General •, expenses, including cost of accommodation, transport, etc., .£41,000; Maori camp, Rotorun (including trnnsport and accommodation of; Natives), £45,000; grant to His Excellency tho Governor-General towards expenses of-, entertainment, £2000; subsidies to local bodies, £12.0,10; total, £100.000. Visit of His Excellency the Governoreneral to Cook Islands and Samoa, £390. War trophies: Shipping, freight, rail«ge, and incidental expenses, £500. Public Health. . Grant to Karitane Home, Wanganui, £.500. Grants to hospital boards in special districts to supplement subsidies (additional). £3000. New Zealand Nurses' Memorial Pund (additional), £100. Plunket nurses, grants for (additional), £1000. ■ Child welfare administration, £5000. Conference of hospital boards, 1920, £100. ..- , • ■ stores and equipment for hospital boards, £10,000. Electoral. ' Grants for services in connection with special licensing poll and general election 1919 :-G. G. Hodgkins, £50; J. Hav. .£SO; W. Maxwell, £19. Department of Agriculture. Grant to Wairarapa Training Farm (additional), £2000; grant for travelling ' expenses of Dr. R. J. Tillynrd attending entomological conferences in London and < Honolulu. £600. ■ i . Travelling,expenses of A. Coekayno, bio- ; loeist. to Australia in connection with i embargo on potatoes, £75. < Travelling expenses of W. Lindsay to I Australia in connection with embargo I on potatoes, £75. • " Visit of Australian potato expert to I New Zealand. £200. 1 Fostering the fruit industry (nddi- ' tional), .€SOO. ' i .Education Department. < District high schools: Salaries of sec- \ ' ondary teachers (additional), £3500. , Manual instruction: Capitation and f salaries (additional), .£IOO. , Secondary schools and colleges: Capi- ( ration, annual grants, and salaries (addi- \ tional). £1000. , , Training Colleges—Allowance to stu- ] dcnU nnd fees (additional), £3500. Salaries of staffs, etc. (additional), , £1000. 1 Special instruction, etc. (additional), £1000.- , vSeienco apparatus and material, £-100. , Compassionate allowance to the widow f of the late G. F. Hogben, formerly Director of Education, £450. Compassionate allowance" to Mrs. Miller, late cookery teacher, at £50 per an- I num. £.50. } St. John Ambulance Association, grant \ iu aid of homo nursing, £250. i< Public Buildings. * Wellinßtbn, Government House (additions, etc.), (on account), £2000. i

Wellington (chief detective's residence),' £1400. A . Hataitai, post office, £1500. Roads and Bridges. Maneaturuturu Stream Bridge (on account), £250; Mathcwson's Road, £75;' Kokako. £1.50; Koutoroa East, £150; I'akihi Rood (from Pipiriki-Ohakuno Road J" Eun 25. Part 2, Tnwhito-Ariki Block) (iil-for £l),-£225; Ward and Roberts'. Road (Waimaxino). £125. Matawhero Road extension to Rniigitikei (£l for £2), (Rangitikei), £1000. Wanganui to Itaetilii (Paranara Road .Junction to Tnukoro Stream Bridge (.£1 for £1). (additional), (Wanganui), £500. Dartmoor Road (additional), (Hawko's Bav). £750. Poi'i <£1 for £1 (additional) (Pahiatua), Barton's Road (£1 for £1), (additional) (Maunceville), £100. / tQIS , Settlement Road (£1 for £1) (Featherston), £250. Pihautea Settlement access road (£1 for £1) (Featherston), £400. . Westinere Road (£1 for £1) (Wairarapa South). £300. EtoieMs Road extension (Horowhenua), Martin's River Road (£1 for £1) (Hutt). £500. ' Forestry Department. Cost of distribution of trees gratis to 6oldier settlers, £1000. Cost of printing Sir D. report on New Zealand forests (additional), £500. Demarcation of forests (additional). £2000. Diffusion of forest knowledge, "£IOOO. Extension of nurseries and additional plantations (additional), £7500.' Fire Prevention.—State plantations and nurseries, £1185; State forests, £5000. Forest reconnaissance, £500. School of Forestry, grant' for, £3020. Silvicultural and ecological investications, £500. Timber measurement studies, examination into factors of mill efficiency, £300. Purchase of Troun6on's kauri forest; £14,000. x State forests, additions to: Purchase of lands (additional), Matahina, WaihiKahakaharoa, Pokohu, Puketi, and Rernwhakailu, £52,000. . Lands For Settlement Account. Grant to J. D. Ritchie, Land Purchase Controller, on retirement, in lieu of leave of absence, £413, Other Votes. "Waikaremoana power scheme, £75.000. Fishing industry promotion, £25,000.. .Hospital ships, .Maheno, clearing up claims Tor water, coal, canal dues, etc., abroad, > League of Nations: New Zealand's sliaro of secretarial expenses, poriod ended March 31, 1921, £6948. . . ' Proportion of damages assessed against New Zealand troops by Board of In. quiry, Cairo, in connection with riots at Ismailia, Egypt, in July, 1919, which resulted in looting and damage to private property. (Assessment—Australia, 40 per cent.; Now Zealand, 40 per cent.;. United Kingdom, 20 per cent.), £2529. . Refund to Wairarapa Patriotic Association of proportion of proceeds of salo of Soldiers' Club, officers' mess, and other camp buildings, based upon proportion paid by the Patriotic Association towards cost of building same, £500. Freight and charges on divisional equipment from United Kingdom to New Zealand, £50,000. . , , _ Cost of transport of New Zealand Expeditionary Force officers' horses from United Kingdom to the Dominion and expenses incidental thereto, £740. ■ War Graves and Sfcmoriuls.—New Zealand's proportion of expenses of Imperial War-graves Commission to March 31, 1920, £5000;, for year ending March 31, 1921, £25,000. , t n ■ Memorials to. be erected, 6 at £5000 each (Somme, Messines, Passchcndalo, Le Quesnoy, Palestine, and Anzac), £30,000. • ■ Civil Service Salaries, The Estimates provide for increases of salary to many senior officers in the Public Service as well as to the rank and file of the •.Departments. 'Some, oi. the salaries affected are as follow, the old salary, being given in. parentheses:Superintendent of Friendly Society (£750), £50; Commissioner of Taxes, (£1050), .£200; Government Architect (£800); £50; Commissioner of Police (i 800). £100; Commissioner of Stamps, £1000 , £100; General Manager. Tourist D partment (.6750), £50; Chief Inspector of Machinery, Marine Department 1 £775 , £125). Other permanent neads aic bimilarly increased.