SUPPLEMENTARY VOTES.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume XXXIII, Issue 8406, 7 November 1912, Page 3

SUPPLEMENTARY VOTES.

COMPASSIONATE ALLOWANCES

TRAVELLING EXPENSES

COST OF ROYAL COMMISSIONS

(Per Press Association.)

WELLINGTON, November 6. Among the items on the Supplementary Estimates are the following: — Subsidy., steam /service, New;. Zealand to San Francisco, £3250; N©\v Zealand to Vancouver, £8000. Experiments in connection with bush sickness, £250. Wool instruction classes for inspectors £110. -. ■•';.

The salary of -the■ Director of Physical Training, who will take' charge, of the new system 'associated•".with the primary schools, is to be £600 per annum, and provision is made for two instructors and inspectors. Annuity to the widow of the late Sir William Steward on account of services rendered by*her late husband £1.50. ■'• Gratuity" to- widow of late Mr Houston, formerly member for Bay of Is-' lards, £300. . '. ' ; Grant to cover expenses of Minister •of Finance-on visit to London, £1000.

Grant to private secretary accompanying Minister of Finance, £450. Grant to Sir William _ Hall-Jones to cover return travelling expenses, £400. •■'•■■

Grant to Hon. T. Mackenzie to cover travelling expenses while proceeding to London to assume the office of High Commissioner, £500. The'sum of £500 is set down to meet the expenses of the Solicitor-General's visit to England in connection with the Webster claims. :•■',"

Expenses in .'connection with Trade of Empires Commission, £10001 Printing of reports of Royal^ Commissions is expensive, as tho following items in the Estimates show:-—

Printing report of, Public Service Commission £50, overtime (additional) £500; printing report of Cost of Living Commission, £455; printing report and evidence ,of Education Commission. £600; printing report and evidence of West Coast Settlement Reserves Commission. £Ifio. -The exrenses of the Cost of Living 'Commission amount to £400 iuirl those of "the Western Taranaki Railway Commission to £210.