ESTIMATES PASSED

Wairarapa Times-Age, 20 August 1938, Page 2

ESTIMATES PASSED

PROGRESS IN THE HOUSE YESTERDAY (By Telegraph—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, This Day. Estimates of departmental expenditure totalling £775,153 were approved by the House of Representatives yesterday. Nine classes, for which urgency was taken at the commencement of the sitting, were passed. They were as follows: Prime Minister’s Department, £24,395; External Affairs Department. £201,329; Public Service Commissioners’ Office, £14,070; Treasury-Depart-ment, £46,099; Customs Department, £130,253; Land and Income Tax Department, £120,252; Stamp Duties Department, £100,125; Census and Statistics Department, £35,300; Labour Department, £103,330. As all the items had been sanctioned by 440 p.m. the week-end adjournment was then taken. Yesterday was the first full day devoted to the and wi.th the vote of £102,350 for the Legislative Department passed lasf*" Tuesday afternoon appropriations' amounting to £877,503 have now received the approval of Parliament. Consideration of the Estimates will be resumed on Tuesday. The Prime Minister, the Rt Hon M. J. Savage, will be away from Wellington for the greater part of next week, and during his absence the Minister of Education, the Hon P. Fraser, will be in charge of the House.