SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATES

Evening Star, Issue 23372, 15 September 1939, Page 8

SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATES

TOTAL OF £814,969 NO ADDITIONAL VOTES FOR DEFENCE [Per United Press Association.] WELLINGTON. September 15. The Supplementary Estimates, which were introduced in the House to-day by Governor-General’s Message, provide for a total expenditure of £814,969. There is an additional vote of £2OO to cover the recent visit to England by the Minister of Finance and his staff. A grant of £SOO js made to cover Maori participation in the Centennial Exhibition. The estimates of the Department of Justice and Prisons contain an item of £7OO to provide for the installation of mechanical recording machines in the Supreme Court in Wellington. Additional expenditure on radio facilities for aerodromes and air routes is represented by an item of £15,000. Additional subsidies . amounting to £27,500 are voted for railway transport of lime for farmers and for fertilisers and farm produce. There is a vote of £40,000 in connection with expenditure on the Rangitata irrigation work. One noticeable feature about the Supplementary Estimates is the absence of any additional votes for defence purposes. Authorised expenditure includes £272.018, the amount required to meet the Dairy Account deficit of the 193637 season, and the subsidy to Union Airwavs for the year ended March, 1939, £l2 500.