Financial Statement.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXVII, Issue 3552, 27 July 1905, Page 3

Financial Statement.

The Colonial Treasurer brought 'down his Budget on Tuesday evening. Tire following are a few items of interest in the Estimates

The old-age pension total (including the additions) is £285,000, as against £*93,973 expended last year. Subsidies for manual and technical Instruction, £aooo, as against £920. Grants for National Scholarships, if 1650, as compared with £903 ex* pended last year. For the expenses of the general election, £*6,258 is allocated. Other amounts are as follow (the figures in parentheses indicating last year’s expenditure):— Grant for New Zealand Exhibition, £IOOO. Canadian steam service subsidy, £IOOO. South Africa steam service subsidy £22,500 (£35,000 expended last year), Noumea service, £IOO. The vote for post and telegraph salaries Is £350,749, an increase of £«S,*49 over last year's expenditure. San Francisco mail service £20,000 (£19,411). Suez mail service £ISOO (£3592). Vancouver mail service £450 (£447). Public schools £411,761 (£459.011). Secondary education £55,800 (£3l, 759). Technical instruction £22,005 (£l7, 301). School buildings, furniture and sites, £80,622 t£65,006). School capitation £67,781 (£65,625). Training colleges £BOOO (£5454)* District High Schools, £12.000 (£10,563). - Secondary schools and colleges, capitation, £15,000 (£13,015). Grant in aid of free kindergartens for infants under school age, f 500, Grants to University colleges for specialisation, January Ist, 1905, to March 31st, 1906.—Auckland Univer* oily College, commerce and mining (41300 per annum), £l*7s! Victoria College, law and science (£ISOO per annum), £1875 ; Canterbury College, engineering (£ls°° P er annum), £1875; Canterbury College, engineer* mg (£lso° per annum), £1875 » Otago University, mining, medicine and veterinary sciencd (£ls°° P er annum), £1873. Sir George Grey Scholarships, one to each University college (science), /jOO* Subsidies to public libraries on the basis of voluntary contributions, /too. Photogravure battleship New Zt a* land, £125. Colonial Analyst Department, Survey Department, Contribution towards cool storage for dairy produce, £2OOO (£7389). Cost of compiling and writing the history of the New Zealand contingents in connection with tbo Boer War, £3OO. ... , Among the school grants is one of Atooo for a now High School at Ash* burton. The expenditure on the Inebriates' Homo Waititi last year was £3*BB. There is no vote this year. The salary of tho director of the Geological Survey Department le £630.