B—7 [PT. ll]

SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATES, 1946-47

DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH—continued

(a) £201,952 provided on main estimates. Further provision necessary to allow for salary increases consequent on general regrading. (b) Grant towards provision of scholarship to enable a nurse to undertake six months' post-graduate obstetrical work in England prior to taking up the position of Midwifery Instructor at postgraduate school. (c) £30,000 provided on main estimates. Grants approved total £30,915. (d) Accommodation for twenty-four patients to be provided at Burwood Hospital. (e) Increased accommodation to be provided at Karitane Hospital, Wellington, Dunedin, and Invercargill, for the training of Plunket and Karitane Nurses. (/) Lowest aggregate tender amounts to £26,665. £lB,OOO provided on main estimates.

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For Services chargeable on the Consolidated £ £ £ Fund — continued ORDINARY REVENUE ACCOUNT— ctd. VOTE—HEALTH— continued Salaries —continued Unclassified (Non-permanent) Increase in salaries — 1 at £1,450 (Director, Division of Tuberculosis, Wellington) 150 Other Salaries £125 to £1,000 (additional) (a)12,400 39,200 Other Charges for and incidental to — General Administration — Contributions towards cost of overseas training of midwifery instructor (6) 110 Grants to — Local authorities in special areas in easement of Hospital Board levies (additional) (c) 915 North Canterbury Hospital Board towards cost of providing additional maternity accommodation . . (d) 450 Royal New Zealand Society for the Health of Women and Children towards cost of capital additions to Karitane hospitals (e) 2,775 Wellington Hospital Board towards cost of providing additional maternity accommodation (additional) (/) 8,665 12,915