SUPPLEMENTARY- ESTIMATES.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2320, 13 October 1908, Page 1

SUPPLEMENTARY- ESTIMATES.

SOME INTERESTING' ITEMS.

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WELLINGTON, October 10

The following wore 6omo interesting items on tlio Supplementary Estimates: Payment of account of losses sustained by officers and attendants of tlio House through the fire at tho Parliamentary Buildings, £200; financial adviser to tho Government, London, £400; mail subsidy, Wellington-Tahiti-Raratonga, £1000; post-m a iking machines for various offices, £100; fencing and grassing Door Park, Paraparaumu, £300; oil launch for Resolution Inlet, £250; Dunedin post office, repairs, £050; Court House, Auckland, renovating, £900; Parliamentary Buildings (additional), £2000; additional furniture for Government House, £1500; board and travelling expenses for Governor’s servants when removing to Palmerston North, £100; printing Consolidated Statutes (additional), £2500; typewriters, Government departments, £1000; reprint of New Zealand Law reports, £2000; . Veteran’s Home, Auckland, £SOO jgratuities to widows of members of Legislature, Mrs. Bonar, £3OO, Mrs. Fish £3OO, Mrs. Pinkerton, £300; locomotion expenses of Governor and staff when travelling between Palmerston North and Wellington, £2OO ; reception of American fleet, £1 for £lO to local bodies in connection therewith, £2750;~ compensation to A. J. J. Meikle, £sooo;visit of American fleet, - expenses in connection therewith, £4500; interchange of officers between the Dominion and other parts of tho Empire, £1000; material for troopers' 'monument, Invercargill, £103; grant from Southland fish hatchery, £1000; importation of Atlantic salmon, £250 ; expenses of reporting Canterbury farm laborers’ dispute, £150; lees payable to members of Industrial Councils, £500; Taicri floods, advance for damage pending financial arrangements, £1000; purchase of leasehold interest from Hawke’s Bay Timber Company, £511; caretaker's house, Ketitalii Hot Springs, Tongariro, £600; free text books, £500; special trained nurses in isolated districts, £600; subsidy to Societies for tho Promotion of Health of Women and Children, £500; subsidy Karitano Home, Dunedin, £500; Central Otago, Tuapeka, and Otago united charatable aid boards, £4001; Otago District Hospital Board, £2268; railway departmental buildings at Christchurch, £20,000; Christchurch museum, £400; secondly school at Gore, £1500; dredging Manukau Harbor, £IOOO.