THE ESTIMATES

Wairarapa Times-Age, 13 September 1941, Page 4

THE ESTIMATES

DEPARTMENTAL VOTES SIX MORE CLASSES PASSED BY HOUSE. LAND DEVELOPMENT FIGURES. (Bv Telegraph—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, This Day. The House of Representatives had a full day yesterday on the Estimates of Expenditure. As an interlude the report of the Public Accounts Committee on discrepancies between a return supplied in 1939 and the latest report of the Lands Department concerning the cost of land development was submitted to the House. The committee found that the discrepancies were due, not to a defect in the accountancy system of the department, but to mistakes in the manner in which some information was compiled for the return. After the Acting-Prime Minister, Mr Nash, had explained the position, stating that the member for Waitomo, Mr Broadfoot, had been justified in bringing the matter to the notice of the House, the Leader of the Opposition, Mr Holland, thanked Mr Nash for his plain statement. Six classes of departmental votes wore passed. The votes approved were: Internal Affairs Department, £496.500; Social Security Department, £5,670.947; Social Security Fund. £3.605,910: Department of Scientific and Industrial Research, £183,200; Department of Industries and Commerce. £801,400; Iron and Steel Industry Account, £BOOO. The total was £lO.765.957. To date 47 classes of Estimates have been disposed of. involving £31.634,096.