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SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATES, 1945-46

STATE COAL-MINES ACCOUNT

(a) £49,400 provided on main estimates. Additional sum required to cover salaries of staff attached to Wairaki and Mossbank Collieries and extra staff required to cope with increased activities. (b) £1,000 provided on main estimates not sufficient to cover present commitments. (e) Progress payment only in respect of colliery purchased October, 1944 ; final figure still being negotiated. (d) Necessary to give access to new area of Stockton Mine. (e) £325,000 provided on main estimates. Additional sum required to cover purchase of electric shovel, and expenditure in connection with Wangaloa Opencast Mine. (/) Officer overcome by gas whilst carrying out an inspection of the mine and died oight days later. (g) £1,000 provided on main estimates. Additional sum required to enable continuation of service transporting employees to Tatu Mine. (h) £1,750 provided on main estimates. Additional sum needed to cover legal foes in connection with mine purchase. (i) £2,500 provided on main estimates not sufficient to cover additional hours required to be worked owing to staff shortage. (j) £2,000 provided on main estimates. Additional sum required to cover cost of extensive boring near Dunollie. (k) £2,500 provided on main estimates, Additional sum required to enable purchase of further trucks to convey coal to railhead,

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| Salaries. Other Charges. Total. VOTE—STATE COAL-MINES— £ £ £ GROSS Total .. .. .. .. .. .. 2,953 102,368 105,321 Credits-IN-AID .. .. .. .. .. .. .. ! I NET TOTAL 2,953 102,368 105,321 Number f 0r services chargeable on the State Coal-mines Account— £ £ £ of Persons. 7 continued l945-46jl944-45 VOTE—STATE COAL-MINES Salaries 11 .. 11 (£95 to £690), (additional) .. .. .. .. (a) 2,953 2,953 Other Charges for and incidental to —• Collieries — Development and other capital expenditure— Mossbank Colliery— Purchase and installation of plant, &c. (additional) (b) 1,000 Purchase of colliery (part payment) .. .. (o) 1,000 Stockton Colliery : Road access to Fly Creek Mine .. (d) 15,000 Coal-winning, maintenance, and trading expenses —Opencast coal-mining : Purchase of land, plant, equipment, and development and operating expenses (additional) (e) 50,000 Grant to widow of the late A. Smith, Manager of Liverpool State Mine .. .. .. .. • • (/) 1,000 Loan to enable purchase of buses for conveyance of workmen (additional) .. .. .. .. (g) 3,500 Office expenses (additional) .. .. .. .. (h) 300 Overtime and meal allowances (additional) .. (i) 1,000 Payment of monetary equivalent of leave due to deceased officer .. .. .. .. .. .. 38 Prospecting and boring on State Coal Reserve (additional) (j) 4,500 Purchase of— Motor-truck (Christchurch Depot) .. .. .. 650 Motor-trucks (Stockton), (additional).. .. .. (Jc) 1,500 Visit of engineer to United States of America to purchase shovels for opencast coal-mining .. .. .. 380 Wangaloa Coalfield, purchase of .. ., .. 16,500 102,368 Gross Total.. .. .. .. .. .. 105,321 Credits-in-aid NET TOTAL 105,321