IMMIGRATION EXPENSES.

Globe, Volume I, Issue 65, 15 August 1874, Page 3

IMMIGRATION EXPENSES.

The New Zealand Times of the 12th instant says : The estimates to defray the salaries, contingencies, and expenses of the Immigration Department, in connection with the Immigration and Public Works Loan, for the year 1874-5, were laid before the House yesterday by the Premier. The total amount of the vote proposed for the year is £481,161 in round numbers, and £270,396 for 1873-4—a sum which includes £250,000 for the introduction, location, &e, including liabilities for immigrants now on the way. The vote proposed for the Agent-General's department for the year is £12,065. Among the items are £4OO for a private secretary for the Agent-General: twelve clerks, £1590 ; a shipping officer, £400; a shipping agent. £3OO ; an assistant shipping officer and travelling agent, £3OO ; a medical officer, £SOO ; advertising and stationery, £3OOO ; the chief agent's office in Dublin, £2OO ; for six agencies in the United Kingdom, £3000; and for travelling expenses, £IOOO. For the introduction and location of immigrants in the present year, £275,000. The Immigration Officer at Auckland is set down at £3OO, and it is proposed to vote £BOOO for country depots in that province, and. £9OOO for advances for works in connection with the location of settlers, including advances for cottages £9ooo—total for Auckland, £17,858. The salary of the Immigration Officer at Taranaki is £IOO, and it is; proposed to advance to the province, for depots and for works to assist settlementand the other purposes contemplated by the' vote for Auckland, a sum of £20,000. Taranaki, therefore, stands for £20,125 for year. The officer at Hawke's Bay has the same salary as the officer at Taranaki, but in that province an " interpreter and collector of bills" is necessary, who will draw £l5O from the Immigration Fund. A sura of £2OO is to be given for the purchase of a site for an office or depot, £IOO for two schoolmasters in the Seventy-mile Bush, and £458 for repairs to the depot at Napier ; and it is proposed to grant £2OOO for depots, and toadvance £9OOO for works. The total for Hawke's Bay is £12,136. The Immigration. Officer at Wellington will receive £375, the depot-master and matron, £IBO, a cadet, £6O, the Quarantine keeper and matron, £120; and it is proposed to vote £2OOO for countrydepots, £3OOO for advances for cottages, and an advance of £60,000 "on land for public works in connection with settlement on terms provided by the Provincial Public Works Advance Act, 1874." The total for Wellington is £66,283. The Nelson officer will have £l5O ; in the construction of a depot at Nelson and country depots, &c, £3OOO is to be spent, and £BOOO is to be advanced for works to promote settlement. In Marlborough the officer receives only £25; contingencies are set down st £500; for depot,, &c, £2OOO is asked, and it is proposed toadvance £14.000. Total for Marlborough, £16,535. To Westlaud £2OOO is to be voted for depots; and £12,000 as an advance for the usual purposes. Total for Westland, £14,175. The immigration officer at Canterbury is salaried with £4OO ; his assistant has £2OO ; his clerk, £180; and his messenger, £62 12s, The immigration officer at Timaru will have £125 ; and it is proposed to vote £BOOO for depots, &e, but nothing for advances to promote settlement, Canterbury having employed a portion of her ample funds in that direction, and not requiring the aid of the General Government. The total for Canterbury is £9317. The Immigration officer for Otago is set down for £325 ; his two clerks, £2OO each ; his cadet, £6O ; an d the visiting surgeon, £SO ; £6OOO is to be voted for country depots ; and the province desires an advance of £IO,OOO on the terms proposed by the Government in con nection with the location of settlers, erection of cottages, &c. The total for Otago is :£17,39-"i. There is also a vote to be proposed o f £I2OO, as the moiety of the cost, of foi\r steam launches —one each for Auckland, Wellington, Lyttelton, und Dunedin.