SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATES

Hokitika Guardian, 12 November 1920, Page 2

SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATES

(Our Parliamentary Correspondent.) ■WELLINGTON, Nov. 11. ( The Supplementary Estimates include the following items:— ■ Cost of taking 1921 census £20,000. Cost of living bonus to retired civil servants £IOO,OOOO. a j Compassionate allowance to widow of j late Hon.‘MacDonald, £2,000. I Contribution to Railway Superannuation fund, £50,000. i Visit of the Prince of Wales,' general expenses £41,000. ' I Maori camp at Rotorua, including transport, £45,000. Grant to Governor-General towards j cost of entertainment, £2,000. i Subsidies 'to local Indies £12,000. j Grants to ex-membefo of the House— H. J. Ell, A. E. Glover, A. W. Hogg, J. M. Hornsby, C. M. Mills £l2O each Expenses of proposed racing commission, £2,000. * i Expenses connected with advancement of aviation £30,000. Purchase of butter for sale for local consumption £300,000. I Grant for School of Forestry, £3OOO. Additions to State Forests, £5,200. Purchase of Trounson’s Kauri Forest, £44,000. Proportion of damage done by rioting troops, Ismailia (Egypt), in July 1919, £2,539. Proportion of expenses of War Graves Commission £30,000. Erection of war memorials at .Somme, Messines, Passchendaele, Le Quesnoy, Palestine and ’Anzac £60,000. The total amounts voted on the Supplement,Estimates on the ordinary revenue account is £2,059,902, and on the public works fund £BB,IOO. A substantial part of the money is required to provide the cost of living bonuses.