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DETAILS OF ESTIMATES FOR THE

PERMANENT APPROPRIATIONS—continued

(а) The Act provides for the payment to the Taranaki Maori Trust Board of an annual sum of £5,000 as compensation for confiscation of certain Maori lands. (б) The Act provides for the following payments to the Tainui Maori Trust Board in settlement of all claims and the demands in respect of or arising out of the confiscation of certain lands in the Waikato District: (l) ,an annual payment of £5,000 ; (2) a lump-sum grant of £5,000; (3) an annual payment of £l,OOO for a period of forty-five years and no longer.

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1946-47. UNDER SPECIAL ACTS OF THE LEGISLATURE—ctd. 1947-48. Estimated. Expended. OTHER SPECIAL ACTS COTltiTlUed MISCELLANEOUS—continued £ £ £ Public Service Amendment Act, 1946 (Section 4) Salaries of Public Service Commission 5,050 1,926 Public Service Amendment Act, 1946 (Section 24 (2) ) — Salaries of Assistant Commissioners 1,400 788 Finance Act (No. 2), 1944 (Section 12) — Salary of Public Service Commissioner 1,650 1,013 Salaries of Assistant Public Service Commissioners 2,700 1,686 Servicemen's Settlement and Land Sales Act, 1943 (Section 5) — Salary of Judge of the Land Sales Court 2,250 1,719 Taranalci Maori Claims Settlement Act, 1944 (Section 2) — Annual payment to Taranaki Maori Trust Board (a) 5,000 5,000 5,000 Waihou and . Ohiriemuri Rivers Improvement Act, 1910 (Section 17) (4) (d), and Appropriation Act, 1916 (Section 27) — Contribution towards interest and cost of administration and maintenance of Waihou and Ohinemuri Rivers Improvement Works—On account of year 1945-46 .. 1,670 1,650 1,667 Waikato-Maniapoto Maori Claims Settlement Act, 1946 (Section 3) — Payments to the Tainui Maori Trust Board — Annual payment under section 3(1) (b) 5,000 5,000 Grant under section 3 (2) (a) (6) 5,000 Annual payment under section 3 (2) (b) (6) 1,000 Total—Miscellaneous 430,971 384,587 416,760 TOTAL—OTHER SPECIAL ACTS 639,971 2,882,587 6,318,259