The Estimates.

Te Aroha News, Volume XXVII, Issue 43347, 9 July 1908, Page 2

The Estimates.

PRINCIPAL ITEMS.

SOME IMPORTANT WORKS.

Wki.UXOTOX, Tuesday. The following are items in the Estimates of general interest:

The usual contribution of £3OOO is to be voted for the New Zealand University. Tiie amount for payment of members of both Houses is £28,500, the amount expended last year being £29,407. The salary of the High Commissioner is set down at £2OOO, Tho annual contribution to the Civil Service Superanimation Fund is £20,000. Tho salai-ies of the judge and members of the Arbitration Court are set down at £2BOO. The printing of Hansard last year cost £5150. The £IO,OOO subsidy to the Canadian steam trade service is being, renewed. Another £IOO is to be voted on account of the Franco - British Exhibition.

Tourist Department: Advertising and purchase of books, photographs, pictures, distribution of pamphlets, books, etc., £SOOO ; importation and distribution of game and fish, £SOO. Public Buildings : Government House, Auckland,- £6OO ; Parliamentary Buildings, £2500 ; - temporary residence for the Governor and staff, £2BOO ; Departmental Buildings, £BSOO. Election Expenses: Expenses of genoral election, £20,000 ; licensing poll, £IO,OOO ; preparing and printing rolls, £9500. 1 Miscellaneous : The sum of £IOO is to be voted for transferring huia birds from the mainland to the Barrier Island. The sum of £7730 is to be voted for New Zealand’s, portion of the estimated deficiency in the Pacific cable, the cost to the Dominion last session being £6103. The Dominion Day medals for school children cost £IOOO. The sum of £SOOO is to be voted for the Seddon Memorial (cost of grave and monuments). Fifteen hundred pounds is to be voted for travelling allowances of Ministers, and £1250 for their travelling expenses ; £1250 is also provided for the travelling allowances and expenses of private secretaries to Ministers. Fourteen thousand pounds is to be voted for the recent Easter volunteer manoeuvres. Amongst other defence items are ordinance ammunition £IO,OOO, small arms, ammunition and cordite, £20,000. The working expenses of Government steamers are set down at £IB,OOO. Tho expenses of the training ship Amokura last year were £5240, and £5200 is to be voted this year. A vote of £25,000 is to be taken for grass seed for Crown lands and settlers. The inquiry at the Te Oranga Home cost £285. Educational : The following grants to university colleges have been made : Auckland University College (commerce and mining), £2,000 ; Victoria College (law and science), £2,000; Canterbury College (engineering), £2,000 ; o}ago University (mining, medicine, dental, and veterinary science), £2,300. Sir Geo. Grey scholarships, one to each university college (science), £2OO . research scholarships, including fees, material, apparatus, travelling expenses, etc., £6OO. 'State Coal Mines: The sum of £20,000 is set down for the develQpment of State coal mines. Other items are as follows: —Establishment and maintenance- of depots : Christchurch, £7,000; Dunedin, £3,000; Wanganui, £3,000; Wellington, £9,000. The vote for the extension of tho Bailway at Port Elizabeth collery is £30,000 ; houses for employees and building expenses, £I,OOO ; payment of royalty to the Greymouth Harbour Board on State coal sold to the public, £2,333; Point Elizabeth collery expenses £190,000; postage and telegrams, £SOO ; printing and stationary, £3OO ; purchase of firewood and necessaries incidental to the working of the depots, £5,000 ; Seddonville colliery expenses, £50,000; WorkPoint Elizabeth colliery expenses last year were £136,961, and the Seddonville colliery expenses, £34,966^ AUCKLAND ITEMS

The following are amongst the Auck' land votes: —Compassimate allowance to the widow of the late Sapper Thomas Doyle (killed through accidental burns at Devonport, on August IS, 1907), £400; electing a bridge over the railway at the Forfst Reserve, near Kaitoke, £250; Manaroa township drainage, £300; Opotiki Agricultural and Pastoral Association (subsidy towards the improvement of show ground) £100; Papakura Domain improvement, £25, snagging Piako River, £600; Tokatoka Swamp Road and drain, subsidy, £100; Whanga. marino drain (taking levels and reporting as to scheme of drainage), £IOO Waikato Sanatorium, maintenance, £5,000, other items in connection with same, £IBSO (including £SOO for Karere tree plantin station); subsidy, Alexandra Convalescent Home, Ellerslie, £1000; Waiotapu tree planting station and extension, £2500 (£1309 expeuded last year). In addition to these, a number of last year’s votes which were not expended are revoted.