THE ESTIMATES

Te Aroha News, Volume III, Issue 108, 27 June 1885, Page 6

THE ESTIMATES

Wellington, Juno 19 The estimates of expenditure for the financial year ending March, 18S6, was brought down shortly after the conclusion of the reading of the Financial Statement. The permanent appropriations for the civil list aro £29,750 ; interest and sinking fund, £1,667,573; last year's vote £1,559.115; under Special Act 3 of the Legislature £102,381 ; last year's, £53,724. Total permanent appropriations. £1,800,107. Legislature— Total vote, £17,572; last year's vote, £67,707. The great diftercnoo in this and the last vote is, of course, owing to the two sessions? last > car. Colonel Securities Department estimates the expenditure £221,5G5; lust year's vote, £211,55t ; reduction in messengers and audit. Charitable aid, printing, and miscellaneous services increase. Registrar-General's Department.— Auckland, Registrar of IJirths— cadet increased to £00— £3,000. Provision is made in the RegistrarGencval's vote for census, 18SG, and agricultural statistics. In the Geological Department \ ote for assistant geologist, £350. not provided for his year, and junior field assistant and librarian at £ISO pro\ ided for. , Hospitals reduced from £51,000 to £lb,ooo. Charitable Institutions, from £35,000 to £32,000. Lunatic Asylums.— Clerks and storekeepers at Auckland increased £i 0 0; matron to £80 ; attendants and servants increased £95 ; labour increased to £70. Under the heading Miscellaneous Services the following occur :— Ncsv Votes.— Contribution towards expenses over portion of New Guinea, £2,009, and cost ol works to be done by the Surveyor-General's Department, £1,300. Colonial Treasurer's Department.— Estimated expenditure, £19,312 ; last years vote, .-£52,(588. Treasury salaries reduced from £7,918 to £5,017. Property-Tax Department. -Unchanged, with the exception of provision £15,000 for triennial valuation. ' Vote for miscellaneous services reduced from £34,795 to £20,050, owing exclusively to a re duction in provision for exchange and coiunns sion. .. Justice Department. — Estimated cxpendv ture, £110,660; last year's vote. £118,751. bu picnic Court clerks increased to £120; clerk te 3. M., Onehunga, increased to £180 ; cadet, l'au ranga. increased £60 ; clerk. Gisborne, new vote, £110. Prisons.— Auckland, chief w arcler reduced fr. m £100 to £250. Postmasler-Gcncraland Commissioner or 1 ele graphs' Department.— Estimated expenditure £279,518; last > car's vote, £20 280. Auckland Post Office : Clerks increased by £.°.2.". ; cadets reduced £105; letter eurrieis lnei'cased b.\ £150 ; messengers increased to £120; assistant to £80. Telcgiaph Ollico : Auckland telegraphists increased by £130; caduts reduced troni £180 to £90; LOtin'.er clerks i educed tiom £120 lo £375 ; despatch cler s increased from C'JH lo •C 380; exchange clerks mci cased from £.L'O to Uino; messengers fiom 2170 to MoOL Postn aster at Cambridge iuci cased to £305 ; i adet to £105; carrier. £o5 ; post master al Coromandel reduced to £1M ; at Drm\> , to £170: at ILui'il'on lo £252; loiter carrier at Hamilton inciea&cd to ,-t7O; postmaslci at, Helens\ ille, £ISI, dispensed with one messenger, £3(! provide!; postmuMer at Kava-k-iwa reduced trom V221 to -C 20.5; cadet, £100; cadet at Herd's Point increased from £100 to £170; po-51 master at Mongomu increased to .£170; postnustcv at Morrui3\ illc, new \otc, £10; postin istcr at Xewlon reduced to £210; postmaster at Ngaruawahia reduced to £217; messenger to £30; postmaster at Unchunga reduced to £200; cadet increased to £75; letter carrier increased £30 ; messenger at Otahuhu, new vote, £30; postmaster at Papakura increased to £30", postmaster at ltusscll increased to £212; cadet mlueed to £00; messengers at £3S dispensed with; postmaster at TcAwamutn reduced to £187; at To Kopnru to £120; io Whanyarci to£l!)l : messenger increased to £00 ; postmaster at \Vaiuku reduced to £187; Waiwera to £1.10 ; Warkworth to £168 ; Whangaroa lo £172. 180 country postmasters increased from £1920 to £1000. Telegraphists- at the Thames increased from £835 to £935 ; clerk reduced to £150 : cadet, £80, dispensed with ; messenger reduced from £1.32 to £111. Rotorua, new vote, £90.1 Opotiki postmaster reduced to£2li ; telegraph Lst increased to £100. T.mranga postmaster reduced to £285; telegraphists increased to £320; two cadets, £190, dispensed with. Te Aroha, cadet, £100. dispensed with. 20 country postmasters increased from £100 to £120; mechanician, Auckland, £200, new vote. Conveyance of mails.— lncrease from £65,510 to £78,890. Suez service, decrease from £16,000 to £1,500. The new votes arc— Direct steamer to Plymouth, £11,000; ditto, bonuses, £2,500. Interprovincial service connect with direct steamer, £3,375. Commissioner of Customs Department. — Estimated expenditure, £80,874 : last year's vote, £55,288. Auckland — Three lockers reduced to £1^0; five luckcrs increased to £810; five cadets increased to £390. Russell— Ofiiccv in charge increased to £300. New votes —Steam launch. £1,000; rent of temporary Customhouse, £500; light keeper at Manukau Heads, new vote, £100 Sanatorium at Kaipava reduced to £15; assistant pilot increased to £132 ; Kaipara lighthouse keeper to £210. JJupys — Kaipara, new vote, £COO. Repairs — Kaipara launch &'YX New vote. Hinemoa, vote increased from £0,000 to £8,0 0 Jos : Stella, from £5,501 to £7,000. Commissioner of Stamps Department.—Estimated expenditure, £20,151; last year's vote, £27,190. Cadets— Land and Deeds, Auckland, rcdiiccd to £150. Minister of Education's Department. — Estimated expenditure, £361,186; last year's vole, £310,482; matron and servant, Howestreet, reduced to £150. Native Department.— Estimated expenditure, £1.0,911 ; last year's vote, £18.611. Rotorua - Native agent, new vote, £100. Messenger, Auckland, incrensed to £110. Minister of Mines's Department.— Estimated expenditure, £24,610; lasr, year's vote, £23,808; Public Works Department estimated expenditure, £750,591 ; lost year's vole. £751,438. Railway Department.— Auckland traffic manager increasod to £423 ; resident engineer increased to £-175; five dorks at £770 dispensed with; four clerks at £070. Defence Department.— Estimated expenditure 0£M1,7 o;laßtyo\r's vote, £185,466. Comnmndan f colonial lorecs, £^00 ; naval stafF officer, £500 : orprdo instructor, six: months, £176; assistant n c tructor, 7s. (id. ) er day ; artillery corps o/Ilccr commanding, £500; sergeant-major, £165; three instructors, £193 18 d .; four sergeants, £621 ; four

sorgoants, £551 ; ninety gunners, at from 6s. to 7s. per day ; torpodo corps, forty mon at 7s— £olO engineers, ft), at 7s. j 2J55 inf anfcy rifles, ,£o,ooo. Auckland, throe drill inspectors, at £121 155. Capitation for volunteers increased from £10,100 to £17,800 ; additional capitation, £1,079 to £2,9G5. Voluntcors' encampments iuoroused from £I,ol>j Police vote increased from £79,002 to £82,118. Fiold force decreased from £tf1,439 to £37,111. Lands Department—Estimated expenditure, £113,677 ; last year's vote, £157,780.