EXPECTED COST

Hokitika Guardian, 7 October 1932, Page 8

EXPECTED COST

. ',V • '4 ~ , . * • ' UNEMPLOYMENT fund. . An increase of £53,625 in the estimated expenditure connected with the administration the, Unemployment. Ifuhd is revealed in the Estimates for the. -i ciirrent- ' financial year. The total appropriation sought i5,£87,930. For isallaries : of officers-voli loan from other Departments, it is proposed to vote (£14,865;an increase of £6561. The number of persons employed' is sixty seven, tas against thirty-seven last year. -Advertising is expected, to absorb £2275. - The expenditure under this/heading last, year was £144. For board, members’ fees, salaries and expenses £2425 ik set: - aside, • against £1796 spent, last year; The cost of fitting up labour -bureaux has increased' -from £7l to £4'lo; and £9lO is toi be!expended to office, equipment, as against - £286 spent last year . Overtime! and meal allowances, have increcsed .in cost from £lll to £350. Postages, telegrams, and telephones' pre expec-ted to ‘cost’. £5750. The expenditure. last year was.£2Bß7. There is a.’jump from £1290 to £SOOO in the allocation for -printing and stationery, and another, i icvease, from £614 to £ISBO, for rent. Heating and lighting services rendered by qthef Departments . are assessed at -£50,000, , -as < against ,£17,659 for last year, but this amount. includes £l2 r QOO outstanding on account of services for the year 1931-32. Last year £142: was spent in special advisory committees’ ; fees; -and expenses, and this year; the item, is set down, at £560. Last year £IOO3 was allocated for travelling/ out of thissum £538- 1- was spent. . The number of officers receiving aflowances is fifty. This year- • travelling ; expenses will . amount to- £2500, including £IOOO estimated to cover travelling expenses of Labour-, i Department officers on -. the board’s business. ' ■ • •'