THE ESTIMATES

Hokitika Guardian, 7 November 1921, Page 4

THE ESTIMATES

SOM Iv Ol' THE ITEMS

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flail wav increases in wages last, year cost £1,.->70.787 and the. estimated cost in the current year is £1,i80,->9O. The Department of External Allairs v .., ( _ , , lV i rinn the administration of Snuoa, is £193,(183, compared with last yen's expenditure of t_'7t 1 f ).•»£>(;. The Industries and tommerir Department takes a vote of £51)0.000 to establish a credit for purchase ol wheat. A similar credit last year of C2. ‘25)0. 150 was followed h v recovery from millers to whom fho wheat was sold, totalling p-9 -|g <)(i7. The sum of £IBO,OOO is voted this year as subsidies to llm rmillers.

Pensions to e| idemic widows, widowers and dependents -re expected to east riiS.lfOO, being a redaction ol fc-lfft'o The Mines Department rides include CIPOt). advances to oil-boring coni) aides and £7OOO for encouragement of prosI citing. Last year's £IOOO grant to the annual conic, cm-• of lire brigades is not renewed.

’Ch,, . 1 "iO vote for a national war nice 'is reduced to £IOO on account. If tleill" Commission expen lit' iy re- ,,, .jred a vote of £2OOO. in addition to tL’ltl") expemled. The (h fem-e vote, cg-,1 .7-10. is stated to lie 10 far cent decrease on last year’s estimates, hut it is 10. i per cent iu-,-tease oi ore-v-ar e N | endit ore. Naval items ioolude £32.509 loir fuel for 11.M.5. Chatham and Philomel, £lO. 700 for coal stocked at Auckland and Suva. £11,781 for stores and £.‘11,000 fi,j- coal and oil supplied to the Chatham on the vciva"c to New /calatul. The aviation vote of £-15,-120 includes £7OO as pay to fifty pilots during a refresher course thirty on aeroplanes and twenty on seaplanes, £129(1 for final payment for two Government hangars at fjoekhiirn. £-000 for works building and for proposed purchase of key aerodrome. A subsidy ol £.IOOO is voted to aviation romj'nnir's.

Tlie general defence vote includes £‘1938 lompensation to offieeis o. the Depaitment in lieu of superannuation. Department of Agriculture items include £2OOO for control of fin-blight disease, while £2200 was expended last year for this purpose.

The sum of £2OOO is to He voted for advertising. photographs, hooks, newspapers, etc. hast year £BOOO "as voted.

For the cost.-of-livine bonus this year the vote is £BOOO. The expenditure for the Conus last year was CTi.ilO, part „f which was carried over from the previous year, and part of which was owiiug to 'expenditure belli" higher than was anticipated. The vote for '‘Hansard is L'lt.lnO. hast year £15.108 was expended.

llellamy's vote is £8331: expended last year £1706. I'nder the Education Department a substantial increase— fixim £,3,500 to £IIB.OOO is shown for allowances to and fees of. students in training colleges. Last yeah £3OOO was voted for rebuilding and furnishing schools destroyed by lire, and the rent of temporary premises during rebuilding. This year's vote is £3>.O(K). (’ndcr file Housing Department £OOO,OOO was voted litst year, and £158,000 spent. This year’s vote is £215.000.

I'nder the War Expenses Account £29,800 was spent last year for office expenses, printing, stationery, etc., this being nearly double t-ho estimate, owing to a War Office claim for over £II.BOO not having been provided for This year’s vote is £10,0lX). A sum of £300.000 is voted for the treatment of soldiers in hospitals and sanatoria. A compassionate allowance of £.250 is to he paid to Mrs Triggs, widow of the late Public Trustee. The vote for the upkeep of the Samoau observatory is £2700. Th ( . visit of the Parliamentary party to the Pacific Islands cost £20,723. The charter of the steamer was responsible for £lO,llß. The salary of the Resident Commissioner at the Cook Islands is to lie increased from £BOO to £IOOO. The sum of £72,437 was spent on epidemic pensioners. This year the vote is to be £OB,OOO.