IMMIGRATION EXPENSES.

Waikato Times, Volume VII, Issue 365, 15 September 1874, Page 2

IMMIGRATION EXPENSES.

The estimates to defray the salaiies, contingencies, and expenses of the Immigration Department, m connection with the Immigration and Pnblic Works Loan, for tho year 15745, were laid before the House by the Premier. Tlio total amount of the vote proposed for the year is £481,161 i» roand number*, and £270,396 for 1873-4— a sum winch includes £250,000 for the introduction, location, &c , including liabilities for immigrants now on the way. Tho vote proposed for tho Agent-General's department, for the year is £12,065. Among the items arc £100 for u private secretary for the Agent General ; twelve clerks, £1590 ; a shipping oflic-r, £100; a shipping agent, £300; an assistant shipping officer and travelling agent, £300 ; a medical officer, £500; advertising and stationery, £3000 ; the chief agent's office in Dublin, £200 ; for six agencies in the United Kingdom, £3000; .mcl for travelling expenses £1000. For the intioduction and location of immigrants in the present year, £275,000 The Immigration Officer at Auckland is s-ct down at £800, and it la proposed to vote £SOOO for country depots in that province, aud £9000 for advances for works in connection with the location of settlers, including advances for cottages £9000— total for Auckland, £17*858. The salary ol the Immigration Officer at Taranaki is £100, and it is proposed to advance to the province, for depots and for works to assist settlement and the other purposes contemplated by the vote for Auckland, a sum of £20,000. Taranaki, therefore stands for £20,125 lor the year. The officer at lluwke's Lav has tho same salary as the officer at Turnn.iki, but in that province an "interpreter and collector of bills" is nece-»-ury, who will draw £150 irom the Immigration Fund. A sum of £200 ig to bo given for tho purchase of a sil« for an oflico or depot, £100 for tno schoolmasters in the Seventy-ni lie Bush, and £458 loi repairs to the depot at Napier ; nn I it is proposed to grant £2000 for depot?, nnd to advan>o £9000 for works. The total for Hawke's Bay is £12,13(J. Tho Immigration Officer at Wellington will reeeiro £375, tho depot master and matron, £180, a cadet, £60, tiiu Quarantine-beeper and matron, £120; and it is proposed to vote £2000 for country depots, £3000 tor advances for cottages, and an advance of £60,000 " on and for public works in connection with settlement on terms provided by the Provincial Public Works Advance Act, 1871." The total for Wellington is £66,253. The Nelson officer will havo £150; in the construction of a depot at Nelson and country depots, &c, £301)0 is to be spent, and £8000 is to l>e advanced for works to promote settlement. In Mnrlborou^h the officer receives only £25 ; contingencies ure set down at £500 ; for depot, &c , £2000 is nsked, and it i« proposed to advance £11,000. Totiil {op Mailborongh, £1G.C35. To Westland, i'2ooo is to be voted ior depots ; and £12,000 us an advance for tho usual purposes. Total for Westland, £11,175. The immigration officer at Canterbury is salaried with £400 ; his assistant has £200 ; his clerk, £180 ; und his messenger, £62 12s. The immigration officer at Timaru will have £125 ; and it is proposed to vote £8000 for depats &c , but nothing for advances to promote settlement. Canterbury having employed a portion ef her ample funds in that direction, and not requning the aid of the General Gowrumont. The total ior Canterbury is £9317. The immigration officov ior Otago is set down for £325 ; his two clerks £200 each; his cadet, £G0 ; ami tho visiting Fiirgeon, £50 ; £6000 is to be voted for country depots ; and tho province desires an advance of £10,000 on the terms pioposed by the Government in connection with the location of settlers, erection of cottages, &c. The total for Otajro la £17,395. There is also a tote to be proposed of £1200, as the moiety of the cost of four steam launches — one each for Auckland, Wellington, Lyttelton, and Dunedin.