SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATES.

Hokitika Guardian, 14 September 1926, Page 4

SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATES.

ITEMS OF INTEREST.

WELLINGTON, Sept. 10. Items on the Supplementary Estimates include:—

Prime Minister's Department £2890, including permanent head £2415.

The Police Department’s votes provide for twenty-five .additional constables at a cost of £4258. The Internal Affairs Department’s votes include £3OO towards expenses of New Zealand delegates to the Empire Parliamentary Association in Australia ; £2OO for expenses of the Government representative to tbe Pan-Pacilc Conference at Tokyo; £IOO additional grant to the New Zealand Amateur Swimming Association : £SO additional to the- Royal Life Saving Association; £3408 for maintenance of New Zealand prisoners of war in Turkey; Dominion Boy Scouts Association £ for £ up to £1000: visit of Duke and Duchess of York to New Zealand £SOOO.

The Department of Agriculture provides for £SOO additional grant for the Royal Agricultural Society and £30,000 ns payment to the Railway Department in consideration of reduced freights on fertilisers. The Dominion Laboratory receives £750 for additional staff appointments and new apparatus.

There is a vote of £i5,000 for improvement. maintenance and repair oi main highways, including purchase of plant. Tho sum of £IOOO is voted for destruction of deer in State Forest reserves and £2300 for testing and investigation of timber products. Items under Unauthorised Expenditure include compassionate allowance of £I2OO to the widow of Dr Hay, late Inspector-Genera! of Mental Hospitals, 'also £ISOO to the widow of MajorGeneral Melvill, late commandant of the New Zealand forces. In respect of an aeroplane at Wi grant Aerodrome which crashed and was destroyed the sum of £ISOO is written off. Pensions votes include provision for £3 weekly to the widow of Captain TTorrell, who was killed in tho Christchurch aeroplane accident, and 10s weekly in respect to each of two children.