SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVIII, Issue 37, 13 October 1915, Page 4

SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATES.

The total amount provided for. in the Supplementary Estimates was some -£744,188. Among the items were the following : t Charges in connection with War Pensions Board £275. Judgment given against Railway Department in case Broad v. tl ie £3OOO. Expenses of National Register, £2OOO. Part cost of repatriating 64 Samoans exiled to Saipan by German Governor of Samoa, £SOO. ■ Cost of administering war risk insurance scheme (additional) £2OOO. Additional grant to Mr F. Lawry, * late M.P., £IOO. Additional gratuity to widow of the late Mr G. Lanrenson. M.P., £3OO. Gratuity to widow of Mr >T. Bollard, M.P., £3OO. Commission of inquiry regarding Defence stores, £3OO. Refund of duty on material used in the construction of aeroplanes in New Zealand, £SOO. Remission of duty on flour and wheat from October 21, 1914, to December 31, 1915 (additional), £1250. Remission of duty on oats from March 2, 1915, to May 31, 1915, £250. Wanganui River mail service, £5Bl. Wanganui luver Trust, subsidy for improvements, £750. Salaries of three nominated memher s of the Board of Trade, £IOOO, £6OO, and £6OO. ■ Compassionate allowance to widow of the late Mr Royd Garlick, Director of Physical Training in Public Schools, £300.' Additions to Wellington Defence Headquarters - , £6OO. mi; HP Dll ilf Vote in connection with purchase of wheat through High 'Commissioner, j £j93.771 (cost of purchase £208.911, less amount received on sale of wheat £l 15.139). . Grant to Professor Salmond, Solici-tor-General, Tor special .service in pre- s paring Cook Island Bill, £2lO. Contribution towards Huntly Relief Fund, £2OO. Cost of repairing motor car used by Prime Minister, maliciously damaged at public meeting at Ponsonby, Auckland, £2O. , Freight, etc., on gifts to Belgians, £456. , Payment of war risk premiums of provisional declarations made on goods ordered for shipment on various vessels ill.- accordance with Imperial reinsurance scheme, £3249. Special allowance 1 (| to officers and non-commissioned officers 'temporarily employed on New Zealand Staff Corps and Permanent Staff to replace officers absent with expeditionary forces, £3044. Remission of duty on Christmas and New Year presents sent by members of expeditionary forces, £l9l. Expenses of Mr G. L. Tacon’s visit to South America to report upon market prospects for New Zealand fruit, £SOO. Public Works Department’s loan to Waitara Harbor Board (written off), £14,031. Grant to Bellamy’s, £3OO. Wellington Post Office extensions, £350. Compassionate allowance to Louis Gabriel, first discoverer of gold in Westland, £25. Snagging Fpper Mokau (£1 for £1), £IOO. King Road (Tarnrntangi), £1 for £l. £SO. Lepper Road, £IOO. Upper Egmont Road. £IOO. Awakino River stock track, £SO. Mangapapa Road. Whangamomona, £2OO. Pukearnhe Road (on account £7OO, £1 for £1). £3OO. Marco ' Road, Whangamomona, £3OO. Tahora Township Block. £lls,