SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATES.

Taranaki Daily News, 13 October 1915, Page 3

SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATES.

SOME INTERESTING ITEMS, COST OF THE WHEAT PURCHASE SCHEME. (From Our Own Correspondent.) Wellington, Oct. 11. The Supplementary Estimates, which were adopted by the House of Representatives this evening, included some interesting votes. The total amount provided for in the estimates was some £744,188. Among the items were the following: Charges in connection with War Pensions Board £275. Judgment given against Railway Department in case Broad v. the King, £3OOO. Expenses of National Register, £2OOO. Part cost* of expatriating 64 Samoans, exiled to Saipan by German Governor of Samoa, £SOO. Cost of administering war risk insurance scheme (additional) £2OOO. Additional grant to Mr. F. Lawry, late M.P., £IOO. Additional gratuity to widow of the late Mr. G., Laurenson, M.P., £3OO. Gratuity to widow of Mr. J. Bollard, M.P., £3OO. Commission of inquiry regarding Defence stores, £3OO. Refund of duty on material used in the construction of aeroplanes in New Zealand, £SOO. Remission of duty on flour and wheat from October 21, 1914, to December 31, 1915 (additional), £1250. Remission of duty on oats from March 2, 1915, to May 31, 1915, £250. Wanga'nui River mail service, £5Bl. Wanganui River Trust, sub'sidy for improvements, £750. Salaries of three nominated members of the Board of Trade, £IOOO, £6OO, and £6OO. Compassionate allowance to widow of the late Mr. Royd Garlick, Director of Physical Training in Public Schools, £3OO. Additions to Wellington Defence Headquarters, £6OO. Vote in connection with purchase of wheat through High Commissioner, £93,771 (cost of purchase £208,911, less amount received on sale of wheat £115,139). Grant to Professor Salmond, SolicitorGeneral, for special service in preparing Cook Island Bill, £2lO. Contribution towards Huntly Relief Fund, £2OO. Cost of repairing motor car used by Prime Minister, maliciously damaged at public meeting at Ponsonby, Auckland, £2O. \ Freight, etc., on gifts to Belgians, £456. Payment of war risk premiums of provisional declarations made on goods ordered for shipment on various vessels in accordance with Imperial reinsurance scheme, £3249. Special allowance to officers and noncommissioned officers temporarily employed on New Zealand Staff Corps and Permanent Staff to replace officers absent with expeditionary forces, £3044. Remission of duty on Christmas and New Year presents sent by members of expeditionary forces, £l9l. Expenses of Mr. G. L. Tacon's visit to i South America to report upon market prospects for New Zealand fruit, £SOO. i Public Works Department's loan to Waitara Harbor Board (written off), I £14,031. Grant to Bellamy's, £3OO. Wellington Post Office extension, £350. Compassionate allowance to Louis Gabriel, first discoverer of gold in Westlaml, £25. Snagging Upper Mokau (£1 for £1), £IOO. King Road (Tarurutangi), £1 for £l, £SO. Lepper Road, £IOO. Upper Egmont Road, £IOO. Awakino River stock track, £SO. Mangapapa Road, Whangainomona, £2OO. Pukearulio Road (on account £7OO, £1 for £1), £3OO. Marco Road, Whangamomona, £3OO. Tahora Township Block, £lls.