B—7 [PT. I]

DETAILS OF ESTIMATES FOE THE

MARINE DEPARTMENT—continued

{a) Previously charged to War Expenses Account. (b) Includes cost of purchase and refitting G.S.S. " Wairoa." (c) Charts ordered from overseas not received. (d) Amounts not brought to charge. (e) " Almanacs " again being printed in one volume. (/) Work gradually tapering off.

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TOTfc—MARINE—continued 1946-47. 1945-46. Voted. Expended. Subdivision No. IV —Mercantile Marine (Number of officers : 1946-47, 44; £ £ £ 1945-46, 44) SalariesOther Salaries 44 (£182 to £1,000) 22,434 20,484 21,337 Other Charges for and incidental to — j . Barque " Pamir " : working-expenses (a) 47,270 i Bluff - Stewart Island ferry service 7,780 7,651 (b) 9,087 Charts (recoverable) 500 1,000 (c) 434 Chatham Island : shipping subsidy 390 400 260 Checking passenger traffic : overtime 800 800 831 Distressed seamen, maintenance and repatriation of .. 200 200 316 . Examinations, expenses connected with 300 300 339 Great Barrier Island : shipping subsidy 1,000 1,000 1,000 Imperial Shipping Committee, contribution to 160 100 (d) Merchant Navy badges, &c. (a) 30 ■ Motor-vehicles) purchase and maintenance of; also accident costs .. 100 100 25 " New Zealand Nautical Almanac " and preparation of tide-tables (part recoverable).. (e) 650 350 329 Office expenses 100 120 118 Office fittings and requisites 75 100 45 Overtime and meal allowances 1,000 1,500 1,028 Payments to Post and Telegraph Department 700 775 605 Printing and stationery 200 250 203 Prosecutions under Shipping and Seamen Act 10 10 1 Refund of light dues under special circumstances 10 50 Refund of wages to deserters under special circumstances 10 10 10 Removal of offices 10 10 Rent 790 790 774 Saleable books and forms (recoverable) 300 150 303 School of Navigation : maintenance of equipment 275 200 344 Shipping Controller : allowance 200 Ship repairs costing service, expenses of (/) 350 650 920 Shipping and Seamen Act: miscellaneous expenses of administration 25 10 58