PARLIAMENT.

Taihape Daily Times, 11 December 1918, Page 4

PARLIAMENT.

I supplementary votes. I LARGE SUM-FOE EPIDEMIC., i | £48,000 FOR PROHIBITION POLL j —— ! TEACHERS’ SALARIES £29,500 WELLINGTON, Dec. 11 | The Supplementary Estimates sub- { mitted to the House include: — Assistance to sick and funeral funds of Friendly Societies on account of deficiencies duo to the war, £IO,OOO. Increased pay to prison employees, £3335. Extradition from British Coloumbia of John C. Harrison, charged with obtaining money by false pretences, £(338 Expenses in connection with conference between the Government and the •Miners’ Federation and coal mine owners, £6OO. Compassionate allowances to widows Okey, Fletcher and Hindmarsh, £4OO each. Expenses of the Premier and Sir Joseph Ward on their recent visit to England, £3000; expenses accompanying secretaries £IOOO. Re-erection of memorial cairn to' the late Sir John Mackenzie, £SOO. Subsidies to B'oy Scouts, £SOO. Maternity grants, £IOOO. Supplementary grants to Hospital Boards, £3000; influenza expenses and gratuities, £IOO,OOO.

Cost and coal trade committees, £IOOO.

Forest tree-growing, planting, additional, £3500. Refund of cost of defence stores issued to sufferers by the Waimarino bush fire, £980; subsidy to Waimarino Fire Relief Association, £IO,OOO.

] Expenses of special licensing poll, £30,000; preparation and printing rolls £IB,OOO. Grant towards educational farm at Wairarapa for discliarged soldiers, £3OOO. Destruction of rabbits on Crown lands, £3000; on native lands, £2OOO. Additional allowances to School Committees, £6000; conveyance of school children, £3000; teachers’ • salaries, £29,500. Compasionato allowance to noxt-of-Idn of teachers who died during the epidemic, £ISOO. Subsidies to public libraries £3OOO. Cash stolen by burglars from Auckland railways goods office, £195. ARMY INCREASES. I. j WELLINGTON, Dec. 10 j Amidst the applause of the House, £2,058,000 were set apart to-day for special payments and increased salaries conceded to the Expeditionary Forces. The Minister explained that during the demobilisation period in England and the front the men had to undergo vocational courses, thcerfore it was j proposed to provide 50 scholarships, j costing £10,635, tenable at any EngI lish University. An additional £50,000 was provided for vocational and instructional training of medical and dental students, farmers, engineers, mechanics, etc., at Home and on the transports, while adequate provision was made for similar training and curative treatment in New Zealand. Kit allowances of officers were inj creased to £-10, necessitating an cxI penditure of £70,500. i