SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATES.

Hokitika Guardian, 7 November 1924, Page 1

SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATES.

THE CHIEF ITEAIS. AYELLINGTON, Nov. 5. The Supplementary Estimates introduced in the House to-day provide for appropriations of £701,111 on ordinary revenue accounts and £40,709 on Public AVorks account. A Treasury item in the supplementary estimates is .£OBIO, premium due to wheat account on exchanges. £O2O is appropriated for withdrawing worn silver coin; £330 to pay income tax cn lees payable to the Railway Inquiry Commissioners and £2323 refund of income tax paid in excess by Booth and Co. London. Railway votes include £2OOO compassionate allowances, in addition to £4488 already paid, in respect of the Ongartie disaster; £BOOO cost of Railway Commission; £BO,OOO subsidy to railway superannuation fund.

The .External Affairs Department provides £OOO for the visit of Samoan chiefs to New Zealand ; .£140!) radio telephone equipment of Apia wireless; £O3O for additional subsidy to Niue Island steamer service. An additional amount of £33,513 is required by the Industries and Com morce Department for the AA’embley Exhibition and £25,000 subsidy to Dunedin Exhibition.

The Pensions Department has a vote of £101) for the widow of the late lion .1. Colvin, former memlier for Bailor; £'l27 for R. T. Reid, headmaster, who was permanently disabled in the AYaikino school tragedy. Cost of living bonuses to annuitants under the various publiu service superannuation funds will absorb £22,500.

The Internal Affairs Department requires £7070 additional for special publicity work. £IOOO is voted towards the cost of returning the All Blacks football team via Canada; £230 toward* the expenses of New Zealand representatives at the Olympic Games; £IOO to the Royal Humane Society: £l3O. additional. New Zealand Amateur Swimming Association. The sum of £O3O is voted under the Depart inenf ol Health lor the cost ol the inquiry into the treatment of mental defectives and sexual offenders; £9lO Kelvin Hospital Commission; £3.30 Palmerston North Hospital Commission: £BO investigation of Rpnhlinger treatment. Defence Department voles include £10.300 for the purchase of Hie K<>himarnma Aerodrome, Auckland.

Customs Department votes provide £32.300 to the Alain Highways Fund, as an amount equivalent to tyre duly collected as part of equipment of motor vehicles. Five thousand pounds is appropriated lor refund of duty on machinery for dried milk manufacture, imported prior to the Customs Act Amendment Act of 1921.

The Lands Department has a vote for r-POOO snhsidv to Tominrim National Park on £1 lor £1 basis. Scenery Preservation votes provide for the acquisition of the AAaro limestone rocks at TTokurangi. at a cost of £3IOO. The new svslem of railway accounts is responsible for a vote of £20.000 to (he Department "f Agriculture for carria<'o of time to bona fide farmers: OMOII railage "f starvin'' dairy stock in fvitith Canterbury and North Otago. A sum of £IOOO is appropriated for invest mat ion into the methods of arresting the deterioration of North Island grass areas, and C 230 to procure information from America regarding the beet, sugar induslrv. The Education Department provides an additional £3OO _to the AYorkers’ Educational Association for organising and an additional subsidy of £2->.OOO to (he teachers’ superannuation fund. Public AA’orks votes include £IOOO compassionate allowance to the children of the late Lawrence Birks. former Chief Electrical Engineer. The Health Department votes include £2OOO subsidy to the AA’estland Hospital Board. . \„ additional £230 is voted to the Karilnue-AA'olfc Hospital. Christchurch. The Department, of Agriculture votes .0800 as a loan to assist in starting dairying in the Chatham Islands.