VARIOUS VOTES

Wairarapa Times-Age, 1 August 1940, Page 8

VARIOUS VOTES

SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATES PASSED BY THE HOUSE. OUTLAY ON LINEN FLAX DEVELOPMENT. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, This Day. Supplementary estimates providing for an additional expenditure of £L--388.312 were introduced in the House of Representatives yesterday. They were subsequently discussed and passed. Provision is made for a vote of £124, the amount of a draft drawn by the Italian Consul on Rome before the outbreak of war. The amount is recoverable. Eight hundred pounds is provided for the Chatham Islands shipping service by way of subsidy for portion of the year, over which an annual subsidy of £l2OO is to be paid, of which £3OO is to be found by the Post and Telegraph Department. The cost of opening up and examining the steamer Tees cost the Marine Department £250. There is a grant of £20.000 for the provision of housing for native agricultural workers on market gardens in the Pukekohe district. A new vote in the estimates is £lOl,440 for the recently established National Service Department. Salaries, expenses and allowances of the Appeal Boards are expected to cost £19,910. To meet the travelling expenses and daily allowances of members of the Alien’s Control Tribunal there is a grant of £5OO. Expansion of activities at Lincoln and Massey Colleges is represented by a vote of £6OOO, additional to the £27,000 provided in the main estimates for the New Zealand School of Agriculture.

The explanation for an additional vote of £BOO for expenses of members of the Council of Primary Production is that it was expected that a reduction of the council’s activities would be effected, but the national war needs had since necessitated that these activities be intensified. The sum of £l4OO is provided for women police. Expenditure in connection with the salvage of the steamer Port Bowen and the disposal of materials is expected to absorb £lO,OOO. which is recoverable. The subsidy to the sugar industry is provided for by a vote of £63,000, which is also recoverable. Specific grants to the Wanganui and Christchurch Karitane Hospital . toward the cost of building extensions at those institutions will cost an additional £2OOO. The carriage of mails by the transpacific air service is estimated to cost £5OOO. An additional vote of £203,000 for railway construction is provided. There is a vote of £430,000 for linen flax development. The amount for land, works and machinery is set down at £214,000, and working expenses are estimated at £261.000. The explanation is made that the total cost of the present development proposals is £275,000 and that credits from the sale of fibre and seed are not expected till the financial year 1941-42. Provision is made for the payment of income tax by profit-earning departments of the State. The amount which it is estimated the State Coal Mines will pay is £B5OO and the amount to be paid on the profits of the Commercial Broadcasting Service is £11,400. The income taxation on the electric supply account is expected to be £lOO,OOO.