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Appropriations for Consolidated Fund Services.

PERMANENT CHARGES—continued.

1930-31 UNDER SPECIAL ACTS OF THE LEGISLATURE —continued. Native Land Amendment Act and Native Land Claims Adjustment Act, 1926 £ (Section 15 (1) ) — Payment of annual sum to Tuwharetoa Trust Board ... ... 3,000 New Plymouth Harbour Board Endowment Act, 1874 (Section 2) — One-fourth of proceeds of sales, &c., payable to Harbour Board to 31st December, 1929 ... ... ... 2,500 New Zealand Loans Act, 1908— Neiu Zealand Consolidated Stock— £ Charges and expenses of management ... ... 37,000 Less recoverable from other accounts .. ... 7,500 29,500 Neiv Zealand University Amendment Act, 1914, and Amendment Act, 1919 ( Sections 3 and 4) — University National Scholarships ... ... ... 3,500 University bursaries ... ... ... 17,700 Grants to University Colleges (4) for workers' extension lectures ... 2,000 University Colleges — Subsidies on bequests and voluntary contributions ... ... 2,600 Neiu Zealand University Amendment Act, 1928 ( Section 7) — Grants-in-aid — Auckland University ... ... ... 9,750 Victoria University ... ... ... 7,750 Canterbury University ... ... ... 6,000 University of Otago ... ... ... 15,350 New Zealand University Amendment Act, 1928 (Section 4) — Annual grant to the University of New Zealand ... ... ... 3,845 Pensions Act, 1926— Pensions and allowances — £ Miners pensions ... ... 55,000 Less credits from gold duty under Section 448, Mining Act, 1926 ... ... 2,480 52,520 Military pensions (Maori War) ... ... ... 9,000 Old-age pensions ... ... 1,140,000 Less amount charged to National Endowment revenue ... 40,502 1,099,498 Pensions for the Blind ... ... ... 16,000 Widows' pensions ... ... ... 325,000 Police Offences Act, 1927 (Section 15) — Fines due Societies for Prevention of Cruelty to Animals ... ... 100 Pubtic Revenues Act, 1926 — Section 6— £ Salary of Controller and Auditor-General ... ... 1,300 Sections 30 and 96 — Claims repayable under Sections 30 and 96 ... ... 300 Section 133 (1)— 1,600 Fire Insurance Fund ... ... ... 10,000 Public Revenues Act, 1926 (Section 40) — Interest on temporary transfers between accounts ... ... 7,000 Public Revenues Act, 1926 — Section 135 (4) — Amount transferred to the Loans Redemption Account for the redemption of Main Highways loans representing proportion of the interest on the balance of the Loans Redemption Account earned by moneys held in that Account for the redemption of Main Highways loans ... 3,100 Public Revenues Act, 1926 (Section 151) — Free issue of official postage-stamps to members of both Houses ... 2,200