GENERAL ESTIMATES.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3743, 14 July 1883, Page 3

GENERAL ESTIMATES.

The following are the general Estimates of receipts and expenditure for the Consolidated Fund for the current year 1883-84 :— The general Estimates of receipts and expenditure for the Consolidated Fund for the current year 1883-84 show grand totals of £3,573,800, and£3,661,490, respectively. The balance on 31st March, 1883, avus £35,549, and the deficit on 31st March, 1884, £52,137. , , Tho folloAving are the principal increases in the Estimates, on last year:— Legislative Council.—Chairman of Committees, £100; clerk, £100; clerk assistant, £50 ; second assistant, £25 ; contingencies, £100. House of Representatives. —Second clerk assistant, £50 ; sergcaut-at-anns, £50 ; interpreter, £25; reader, £50; record clerk, £50 ; contingencies, £30 ; expenses of members, £1055; library and mailman, £100. Audit, £438; valuation friendly societies, £800 ; charitable institutions, £20,000 ; fees to medical witnesses in lunacy cases, £150 ; patent officer, £75; patent office clerk, £50 ; expenses Court of Appeal, £300 ; fees, £25 : inspoctor of prisons, £100 (also, £100 allowance in lieu of quarters); grant to Education Boards, £7000; training of teachers, £500; teachers' examinations, £100 ; masters Native schools, £500 ; board of pupils, Deaf and Dumb Institution, £130; AVcllington College, £500; Native Land Frauds Commission, AVellington, £100 ; working railways—draftsman, £25 ; railway storekeeper, £200; Government Houses, AVellington and Auckland, each £100; post and telegraph offices, £500 ; Ministerial residences, rent, £50 ; A r olunteer adjutants in AVellington, Nelson, Canterbur}', and Dunedin, each £300 (new votes); extra pay police, long service, £3726: travelling expenses and transport of prisoners, £1000; repaid to Titanic Steel Company, £1750 : Native Land Court surveys, £5000 ; rates payable under Crown and Native Lands Rating Act, £10,000; secretary Government Insurance, £100.

These are principal increases over last year's votes. There are in addition, of course, numerous small additions of £5 or so to cadets and local officers.

The chief decreases are as follow: —Parliamentary Committee reporters, by £120 bonus; Hansard staff, £70; Bellamy's, £133 ; electric light for House, £3000 ; vaccination of Natives, £200 ; Departmental Buildings, £1000; Parliamentary Buildings, £1000; polico stations, £1000; Ilinenioa, £1000; Actuary Governmant Insurance, £100,