THE SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATES

Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 61, 26 November 1907, Page 2

THE SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATES

Tin; fcjujiplc-inciitiiry Estimates presented tu tile House of Representatives represent a total expenditure of £227,003 out of the Consolidated Fund, and something over £50,000 out of the Tublit Works Fund. Tiie eliief items are:—Linen, glassware, etc., for Bellamy's, £540; maintenance of Bellamy's stall' during session, £400; postage and telegrams, including Parliamentary papers (additional), £250; re-jiayiuent to Mr jlione Ileke, ii.i'., of honorarium deducted while engaged in settling native diiliculties, £bo; refreshments supplied to messengers, attendants, and stall on late silting nights, £SO; allowance to messengers, etc., fur lime lost between two sessions of Parliament, l'JUti, £3OO. Land and Income 'fax Department, extra clerical assistance (additional), £1500; law cost's (additional), £500; rates on Crown lands, £BOO. Post and Telegraph DepartmentSalaries of linemen (new appointments), £1420; new stations, telegraphists, etc. (additional), £2000; conveyance of mails by sea—mail service Wellington to Sydney (additional), £7183; Suez mail service beyond Melbourne (additional), £201)0;" less estimated credits, £7OOO. Carriage of mails by railway (additional, £15,2(15, less cost of postage, etc., £7205. Allowance to superintendent of electric lines tu cover expenses of visit to Europe, £050; additional sum required to meet increase of overtime payments'for Sunday and holiday and night duty, £2000; Exhibition postage stamps, £740; special allowance of as per week to 102 telegraph boys, £1320. Industries and Commerce Department— Canadian steam service subsidy, £10,000; expenses in connection with Franco-British Exhibition at London, £5000; journalist's salary,/ £325; draftsman and artists, £300; advertising, etc., £750; importation and distribution of game and lish (additional), £200; purchase of statuary from New Zealand Exhibition, £2OOO. Working Railways—Additional allowance to railway employees receiving not more than 10s "per day in respect to time worked in excess of eight hours per day, £2500; compensation for loss of property by lire, £2OOO. Public Buildings and Domains—Total, £lo,43o—Christehurch .Mental Hospital £450, Seaclilf Mental Hospital £SOO. Native Laud Court Chief Judge's salary, increased from £OSO to £700; clearing native lands of noxious weeds, £2000.' •Justice Department Under-Secre-tary's salary, increased from £OOO to £050; clerk's salary (private secretary to Minister), increased by £25. Cook Islands—Additional expenses in connection with administration, £450; r subsidy for service to Niue, £3OO. Police Department—Ten constables at 7s Od per day for six months, £085; additional house allowance to married men unprovided with quarters, £250; expenses attending the extradition of D. C. Mcintyre, £242. Mines Department—Salary of UnderSecretary, increased from £OOO to £050; salary of Colonial Analyst, increased f rum £475 to £525; expenses of ltoyal Commission Nightcaps disaster, £1000; Utago University School of Mines, iinal grant, £250. Electoral Department" Preparation and printing of rolls (additional), £1455. High Commissioner's Department— Postage, £350. Department of Internal Affairs—Cost of copies of book "Life in Aotca," by J. C. Andersen, £100; cost of copies of book "Te Tohunga," by W. Dittmer, £150; cost of organ at Christehurch Exhibition, handed over to Christehurch City, £4245; expenses in connection with rain - making experiments at Oaniaru, £240; grant to cover expenses of the Hon. W. ilall-Jones on sick leave visit to England, £500; expenses on trip of ilr. W. Hall-Jones' private secretary, £201); grant to Dr. Eilchetl, Solicitoi'Ceneral, to defray expenses of visit to London on public business, £550; ' gratuities equal to one year's honorarium to widows of late members of j the House, of llcprcscnlalivcs (Mrs. ,1. ' O'Meara, Mrs. A. Morrison, Mrs. E. M. ' Smith, ami Mrs. J. Vile), £3OO each; ' ' expenses of private secretary lo the Prime Minister alt ending Imperial Conference, £550; bonus for mineral oil, £500; contribution to Veterans' Home, Auckland, £350; cost of Native. Land Commission, £4000; Dominion Day celebrations, £1500; purchase of medals for school children to commemorate Dominion Day, £1500; grant to cover cost of New Zealand Exhibition, £17,000; Seddou Memorial, cost of grave and monument, £SOOO.

Cr.rwu Lands Department— Assistant law officer, increase of salary, .-CI01); clerk, increase of salary, £35.'

Law-drafting Office—lncreases of salaries, law draughtsman from £SOO to CliOO, clerk CISO to :£2OO.

Defence Department Total vote, C:15,754. Additional amount: required consequent on new scheme of pay, 13117; accoutrements, etc., ,0)00; arms and spare parte, .3011 short rillos and complete equipment for mounted rifles, -C10,()00; camp equipage, ClOOO; submarine mining and ordnance stores, €40011; ordiiauee ammunition, £13.01)0; transport equipment, £IOOO. Marine Department Kxperimenlal Ivnwliiiff (additional), £1000; intrdduction oi' Atlantic salmon, Clod; new windlass for (lie Amokura. £7OO. Department of I.ahor—Compassionate allowance to vonngest child of the late • lames ilackav (Chief Inspector of Factories), payable to the Public Trustee, £.">00: expenses of sweated industries exhibit, £3000; workers' dwellings on ;'ro\ni lands, £SOOO. Department of Agriculture Wages rial expenses in connection with destruction of noxious weed* (additional), £1000; travelling expenses (additional), CI 000. Kducation Department—Technical instruction, free places (additional), £75(1; public school cadets' Mibsidies for minia- I (urc ride ranges, .{MOO; infant protection salaries and contingencies, £5(10. State Coalmines—Expenses of depots (additional), £SOOO. Workers' Dwellings—Cost of erection, alteration, enlargement, etc.. of workers' dwellings on soli lenient lauds, £8000; additional cost of erection, alteration, enlargement, etc.. £2OOll. Public Trust Ollice New premises (Christchurch), £IO.OOO. PuMic Works—Uridging rivers and improving road between Waiau Ferry and llanmcv Springs for motor ear service, £SOOO. Public Buildings—Wellington, passenger elevators, r*l4offj Colonial Museum, Ue2205. ;;.,L.».V.-.:^.iJ,..i, : ,a