FURTHER GRANTS

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 815, 8 November 1929, Page 11

FURTHER GRANTS

INTERESTING ITEMS j THE SUN’S Parliamentary Reporter WELLINGTON. Thursday.

The Supplementary Estimates for the current year were brought down Jn the House of Representatives today. Among the grants were the following items of interest: Maui Pomare overhaul, £15,940.

Air pageants, £I,OOO New lighthouse tender, £38,000 on account. Assistance to tobacco industry. £I,OOO. Cost oi travelling expenses Allan Wilkie Shakespearian Company on tour, in New Zealand, £750. Paeroa-Pokeno railway survey, £5.000. Paparua prison farm, £10,625. Main highways, additional amount required for current year, £50,000.

Native land settlement under Native Land Amendment and Native Claims Adjustment Act, 1929. £25,000. New Zealand-Australia mail service ■ubsidy, £15,000. Expenses in connection with cut-over to automatic telephone system at Christchurch, £l5O. Additional subsidies to hospital and kharitable aid boards. £32,000.

Expenses of inquiry employment of Jlaoris by Chinese, £l5O. Grant toward model village, Whakr.rewarewn, £SOO.

Contribution toward expenses unveiling ceremony of memorial to the late Sir Janies Ci rroll, £SOO.

Charges in connection with commission reporting on position of employment for incapacitated returned soldiers, .£2,000.

Additional travelling allowances and •xpenses of Ministers, £3,150; additional private secretaries’ expenses, £1,920. Additional pork bonus. £5,000. «’arriage of lime for bona fide farmers (additional), £5,000. Expenses Unemployment Investigation (Committee. £465. Compassionate allowance to the widow •f the late Mr. B. NT. Wilson, general Manager, Tourist and Health Resorts department. £I,OOO. Subsidy. Bluff-Nlilford Sound steamer •erviee, £2,000. . Commissioner of Transport, ?£ 1.000. ’£l^o enSeS ?rraris P ort Advisory Council,

Additional charges in connection with ptate forest plantations, sand dune reclamation and afforestation, £126,120.