THE ESTIMATES

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 68, 7 August 1912, Page 4

THE ESTIMATES

ITEMS OF INTEREST. By Cable-Press Association—Copyright. Wellington, Last Niofit . The followino- items 0/ interest appear in the Estimates:— . r LVXU fjLATI.VE DEPA H TMENT The Estimates provide for chief Haneurd reporter £25 increase, H«| K ard Mipervisor £25 increase, assistant £-'5 increase. The rate for Bellamy's staff is reduced from £025 to £SOO. East year 17.17 was expended. The rate for passages of members is increased from £SOO to £IOOO. Estimated deficiency in itlro Paeiii* cable £4135. (Jratiiitics) for conveyance of letter* and printed matter £23",000 ( £21,334 expended last year. Pacific postal .service £11,700 (£8504expended last year). Post and Telegraph advertising £ 130 ft (£BSO expended last year). (>'ood conduct 'allowances to postal officers £lO,-)0 ( ,t!44fl). .Motor lorries, for 'the carriage of mails £2400. Plant f«- Wellington Citv mail service £4OO. Compensation to A. F. Wimsett, to piiy legal expenses l of defence, £IOO. Expense of chief electrician's trip to Europe £525. Fraudulent withdrawals from eavinjm bank and defalcations £250. Contribution for renewal or reinstatement of Oovemment Buildings damaged or destroyed by fire, £IO,OOO. Chief clerk, Native Department £3BO- - ( £ls increase). j Cost of West Coast Settlement Reserves Leases Commission £3OO. Purchase of typewriters, Native Department, £SO. Solicitor-Ocneral £1250 (£250 increase). Assistant law draughtsman £315 (£4.0 increase). Expenses under Shorthand Reporters Act £IOO. Gaoler, Wellington, £330 (£lO increase). Police Commissioner £OOO. Chief clerk, police. £475 (£25 increase). Four additional police .sergeants £383,. and twenty additional constables £I4OO. STAMP DEPARTMENT. Inspecting valuer of estates £4OO. Assistance towards races, drainage, and waterworks on goldfields (new vote) £SOO. • '' Assistance towards prospecting £SOOO. Secretary 'to Cabinet £550 (£95 increase). Officer in charge of messengers, etc £290 (£25 increase). 4 Collection of historical and other matrelating to the Maori race, £250. Establishment of a historical 'collection regarding the cnrlv history of New Zealand, £SOO. Additional monotype keyboards, Covernment Printing Office, £IOOO TOURIST DEPARTMENT. Waimakino round trip and hostel salaries (new vote), £045. Little Harrier Island caretaker (new Vote), ,f135. Waitomo Caves and hostel (new vote), salaries of manager, etc., £315. Mount Cook Hermitage salaries, £415. Qucen.st.own reserves, salaries of officers, £3IS. Launch master. Lake Te Anau, £1(10 PUBLIC! HOSPITALS. Analyst,'£lso. Inspector of midwives, £175. Promotion of health of women and children, £250. Quackery Prevention Act, £SO. Medical service at Nine. £IOO. INTERNAL AFFAIRS. Cost of printing municipal hand-book, £155. Expenses of Xety Zealand cadet contingent to Canada, £GOO. Inquiry re Mr. J. R. Hi ne , M.r.. letral expenses, £SOO. ' " Expenses of delegates local government conference, £M)O. Cost of Public Service Commission, £ISOO. Subsidy to Trades and Labor Councils' Exhibition at Dunedin. £SOO. . Subsidy to Weillington Philosophical Society, for ".building an astronomical observatorv, £SOO.

DEFENCE. Director of veterinary service, £l5O. Travelling allowances and expense*, £4OOO (£7017 expended last year). Territorial force capitation," to pav off liabilities of corps, etc.,£15,000 ( £37 408 expended last year). Maintenance grants to units and rjlie clubs, £II,OOO (£12,200 expended last year). - ; Principal veterinary officers, lour At £SO per annum, £2OO. Total Territorial vote. £l7O 317 (£113,863). SENIOR CADETS. Ouffit grant to officers on joining £IOOO. , *' Supply of uniforms, £32,000 (£57(34 expended last year). . I Expenses in connection with King's Birthday reviews and General BadenPowell's visit, £2OO. Passages of officers and non-commis-sioned officers to and from England, £2400. CUSTOMS. ' Secretary, £025 ( £25 increase). Collector and inspector, Wellington £625 ( £25 increase). ' Pumps for Calliope. Dock, Auckland, Acetone light for Bean Rock, £3'o MARINE. ■Survey between French Pass and Jackson's Ulead, £585. LABOR DEPARTMENT. Expenses of Cost of Living Commission, £IBOO. LANDS AND SURVEY. Roading to give access to Mackenzie Country Yuns, £1144. Metalling roads on Hauraki Plains £3500. ' Road construction. Rangitikei draina.* district, £ISOO. * Small garzing runs in Canterbury, pay. men-t to outgoing lessees, £lO 650 AGRICULTURAL DEPARTMENT. Visit of Uruguay Commission to New Zealand, £6O. Dairy instructress. Dairy Division SJ liX). Visit of dairy instructor to Germany and Denmark in connection with the casein industry, £2OO. ' EDUCATION DEPARTMENT. Education Commission, £2200. Grant to Otago University, '£l for £1 on Mrs. Olliver's gift, £2OOO