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SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATES, 1945-46

STATE FORESTS ACCOUNT

(a) Provision for additions to staff and return of servicemen earlier than anticipated. (b) Further purchases of land for rehabilitation purposes. £50,000 on main estimates. (c) Construction of hangar at Rotorua for aerial fire patrol and purchase of buildings for South Island training centre. £3,120 on main estimates. (d) Contribution to Imperial Forestry Institute for current year. £75 on main estimates included contribution of £50 sterling for 1944-45. (e) £5,000 on main estimates. Additional required for equipment of additional timber-cruising and forest survey parties and for construction of experimental creosoting equipment. (/) Required in connection with 1946 forest survey. £450 on main estimates. (g) To provide for additional cruising parties necessitated by expanding timber-production and for forest survey parties. £8,500 on main estimates. (h) A cruising party was burnt out while occupying a bush hut and lost practically the whole of their personal effects. (i) Loss of a registered letter between office and post-office. (j) Required this year on account of rehabilitation plans coming into operation earlier than anticipated. £3,750 on main estimates. (/c) £5,400 on main estimates did not provide for overtime by field staff being necessary throughout the whole year. (/) It is probable that local authorities will qualify for greater amounts than previously anticipated. £18,300 on main estimates,

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Salaries. Other Charges. Total. VOTE—STATE FOREST SERVICE— £ £ £ Subdivision I. —Salaries and General Administration .. .. 4,000 41,709 45,709 ,, II. —General Forestry .. .. .. .. .. 75,300 75,300 ,, III.—Utilization and Industrial .. .. .. .. 170,000 170,000 GROSS Total .. .. .. .. 4,000 287,009 291,009 Credits-in-aid NET TOTAL 4,000 287,009 291,009 Number p or s erv j ces chargeable on the State Forests Account — £ £ £ oi Persons. , continued 1945-4fi I if, VOTE—STATE FOREST SERVICE Subdivision No. I. —Salaries and General Administration (Development and Management of State Forests, Provisional State Forests, including Extraction of Timber for Sale, Plant, Buildings, Roading, &c., Silvicultural Surveys, Forest Research, Compensation to Employees and Contingencies, Acquisition of Land and Timber, Grants and Subsidies to Local Bodies, and Miscellaneous) Salaries— Other Salaries 26 26 (£95 to £840) .. .. .. .. .. (a) 4,000 Other Charges for and incidental to — Acquisition of land and timber for forestry purposes (additional) . . . . . . . . . . (b) 10,000 Buildings, erection or purchase of (additional) .. . . (c) 14,000 Contributions to research associations (additional) .. (d) 120 Field, office, and experimental equipment, tools, furniture, instruments, tents, &c., purchase of (additional) .. (e) 1,000 Forest atlas (additional) .. .. .. (/)3,000 Forest reconnaissance, policing, supervision, timbercruising, &c. (additional) .. . . . . (g) 3,000 Grants towards cost of replacement of personal effects destroyed by fire .. .. .. .. .. (h) 75 Loss of official moneys .. .. . . .. (i) 6 Motor vehicles— Purchase of (additional) .. .. .. (j) 4,750 Repairs to private car damaged in collision with departmental vehicle . . .. . . .. .. 8 Overtime and meal allowances (additional) .. (k) 1,000 Payment to local authorities under Section 17 of Finance Act, 1924 (additional) .. .. .. (I) 6,000 42,959 Less amount provided on main estimates and not . required : Fire-fighting wages, expenses, &c. (£3,220 on main estimates) .. .. .. .. 1,250 41,709 Total—Subdivision No. I .. .. .. 45,709