£63 Millions of State Spending

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 63, 7 December 1937, Page 3

£63 Millions of State Spending

— Press Asiociation.)

DEPARTMENTAL VOTES Supplementary Estimates Introduced ANOTHER £1,613,318

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WELLINGTON, Ltvat Nlght. -Additional expenditure totalling £1/113,813 for the eurrent financial year i» provided for in. the Supplementary Estimates which were presented in the I iHonse .to-day, .The detailed increasea are: — Legislative Department, £4161, Prime Minister 's Department, £548, Finance, £25,806. ..j General administration, £82,489. Law and order, £7712. . Defence, £5054. Maintenanee, £28,300. Development of primary and secondary industries, £204,615. Social services, £60,808 (credit), Public Works Fund, £871,945. Land for settlements, £65,000. State coal mines, £3771. State forests aocount, £1238. Working railways account, £91,698. Post Office account, £219,629. Public Trustee's account, £13,325. Government Insurance account, £790. Public Service superannuation, £295. State Fire Insurance, £27,385. Dairy industry account, £1490. Broadcas'ting account, £18,915. , With the additional expenditure shown in the supplementary estimates, which make for salary increases.arising from the reclassification of the civil service, the total estimated expenditure under all headings -for this financial year amounts to £62,898,618. Tho f ollowing are points . of interest taken from the various departmental votes: — Internal Affairs Department: £806 for buildings and equipment for the

Rotorua game farm; £353 for the Rotorua trout hatchery; £440 for the Tongariro trout hatchery; £1000 for allowance and travelling expenses to members of the National Council of Physical Welfare and Recreation; £1313 as New Zealand 's share of the cost of painting of the Coronation to be presented to his Majesty the King; £1200 towards the cost of collecting and assembling moa bones at Wanganui; £600 for assistance to swimmlng and life-saving societies; £3000 to cover the ; preliminary expenses of the nationa^ health and superannuation scheme, including salary and allowances to the Imperial Civil Service actuary loaned i to New Zealand; refund of £1228 in New Zealand currency by the Prime Minister, Mr. Savage, from a grant oi £1500 sterling for his visit to the Coronation and Imperial Conference. External Affairs: £4350 for additional improvements an£L maintenanee of xepara'tion estates in Western Samoa; £4000 to cover additional working expenses of the motor .vessel Maui Pomare. Marino Department: A credit of £500 from the £2000 provided to cover New Zealand 's share of the cost of the Lincoln Ellsworth Relief Expedition. Labour Department: £923 to cover the cost of the salaries of nominated members and officials .of ti* Second Arbitration Court. Naval Service: £554 in setfclement of claim from the Australian Government for damage to H.M.A.S. Sydney by the Admiralty oil tanker Nucula at Auckland; £4500 for the purchase of land at Devonport for the site of the Royal Naval Barracks; army grants of £350 towards the regimental funds of territorial units.

Maintenanee of public works and serj vices: £30,000 for .the maintenanee and repairs of river protec'tion works throughout the Dominion; £50,000 for additional plant for the agricultural Department; a grant of £27,000 to cover the establiskment of a school of agriculture, which will decide the policy of agricultural instruction and allocate money s received from Government sources and bequests (the grant of £15,000 to Massey College on the main Estimates to be included in this sum>); additional grants o± £15,000 for the railway carriage of lime for farmers; £58,000 as portion of freight rates .on

fertilisers anf £13,000 as portion of freight rates on farxn produce. Tourist and Publicity Department: £5700 for the purchase of film and photographic equipment for speciai publicity work; £3000' for the erection of thermal baths at Taupo. Scientific and Industrial Research Department: £250 for the purchase of linen flax seed from England to be grown by selected farmers in Canterbury and Marlborough with a view to establishing the linen flax industry in New Zealand. Transport Department: £3500 to cover additional expenses of the road

safety campaign. Health Department: An additional bounty of £50 to the parents of the quadruplets born in Dunedin. Education Department: Additional grants of £4848' to tho university colleges for general purposes^ an additional grant of £20,000 for the maintenanee of school buildings and training colleges; £2630 for the New Zealand Institute for the Blind. Pensions Department: £160,000 (credit) for the amount provided in the main Estimates . but not required. Railway construction: Additional 1 grant . of £100,0*00 for the GisborneWaikokopu section of the East Coast ' railway, a similar grant being made for the Wharanui-Parnassus section of the South Island main trunk. Public buildings: £34,000 for the acqisition of properties in Molesworth street and Lambton quay, Wellington, for departmental buildings; £23,000 for the purchase of land for the proposed new mental hospital at Marton. Irrigation, water supply and drainago: £10,000 on account of the Downs water supply scheme, Canterbury, and £24,950, in addition to the main Estimates vote pf £207,000, to cover general requirements. Native land settlement: £69,000 on Iwd dtveJaBSiSl KkesjM a OOfl oa

the1 acquisition of new' land, to be re* covered by estimated receipts of £70,000 from development schemes. Working railways account: £60,813 to cover the cost of adjustinents- in connection with anomalies arising ou't of | the introduction of the 40-hour week; £28,000 to cover the cost of r'e-grading in the first division of the railway service. PoSt Office account: Additional payment of £20,000 for bank exehange,. commission, discount and stamp duty • necessitated by the increase in rnoneyorder and other funds remitted to the United Kingdom and elscwhere.