B—7 [PT. ll]

SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATES, 1946-47

STATE FORESTS ACCOUNT

(a) New appointment. (h) Includes provision for additional staff and also for additional salary requirements consequent upon regrading. £166,300 provided on main estimates. (c) Expenses and allowances of members of the timber production advisory committee and salaries and administration expenses of timber end-use committees in connection with control and useage of building timber. Previously charged to War Expenses Account. (d) Additional provision required to cover outstanding orders coming forward earlier than anticipated. £6,550 provided on main estimates, (c) £B5O provided on main estimates. Further provision required.

83

— Salaries. Other Charges. Total. VOTE—STATE FOREST SERVICE— £ £ £ Subdivision I. — Salaries and General Administration ,, II. — General Forestry 28,500 14,100 256,000 42,600 256,000 TOTAL .. 28.500 270,100 298,600 For Services chargeable on the State Forests Account — continued £ £ £ 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) J Salaries — Professional Division 1 at £1,050 (Assistant Director), (6 months) . . 1 at £950 (Chief Inspector) (a) 525 950 Other Salaries 9 (£125 to £1,000), (additional) . . (6) 27,025 « 28,500 Other Charges for and incidental to — Expenses of timber advisory and timber enduse committees Field, office, and experimental equipment: tools, furniture, instruments, tents, &c.— Purchase of (additional) Maintenance of (additional) (c) 4,000 (d) 3,500 (e) 250