THE CIVIL SERVICE

Hokitika Guardian, 1 March 1929, Page 3

THE CIVIL SERVICE

IN CUE A SED ESTIMATE'S. (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, Feb. 26. Although the Civil Service Estimates ..,r the coming financial year, amounting to £3l;8,oOo,Oo(J, represent au apparent increase of over £13,0(30,6(X) on one expenditure under this head during the past year, that expenditure includes over £2,000,000 passed during tne year as supplementary estimates, and the increase on the last Budget figure amounts to £ls,ooo,irjo. Nearly the whole of this increase is accounted for by the scheme to relieve industry, agriculture, and the transport trades, of rates under the derating scheme. The Chancellor has, however, made special provision for financing the derating scheme, and wnen this is taken, into account a net Departmental increase of only £IOB,000 is shown.

Notes dealing with derating arc as follows:—Grant to rating authorities in England and Wales, £12,000,000; grant to rating authorities in Scotland, £1,200,000; railway freight rates, £2.300,000; private mineral railways and local rates- grants, £27,000 AY itli the exception ®f the freight rebates, the grants will not become payable until alter October Ist. next, when the derating scheme as a whole will come into operation. The estimated expenditure on war pensions, education, old age pensions, and services of the Ministries of Health and Labour are the principal items in the Civil Service Estimates.