FINAL VOTES.

Auckland Star, Volume LVI, Issue 232, 1 October 1925, Page 12

FINAL VOTES.

SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATES. THE MAIN ITEMS. GRANT TO MRS. MASSEY. (By Tc-lcsrapb.- -Parliamentary Reporter.! WELLINGTON, Wednesday. The Supplementary Estimates were presented to the House to-day, totalling £107,3-14 on general revenues account, and £108,0.30 for public works. The widow of the late lion. W. F. Massey is granted £t>ooo. and £1000 is appropriated for funeral expenses, £117 for bcautification of the grave site, and t">000 on account of a memorial to the late Prime Minister. , Additional subsidies to hospital boards, £:iO,OOO. Railway passes and concessions to members of tho Legislature, families and relations, £24.478. Subsidies fur wireless broadcasting £3">00. Tho public buildings vote includes £l-o for panelling in the committee room of the League of Nations hall at Geneva. An additional £2.">,000 is appropriated for the restoration of road works, bridges, etc., damaged by flood. £5000 is provided for the relief of unemployed, to be engaged on road works.

(Jrant to Secretary of External Affairs, attending League, of Nations Assembly at Geneva, £1000.

Industries and Commerce Department's vote includes £7750 for participation by the New Zealand Government Departments in the New Zealand and South Seas Exhibition.

Police votes include £750 to dependents of the late Constable Dickson, accidentally killed while on duty; £100 to T. S. Duncan, compensation for wrongful arrest owing to mistaken identity. The Internal Affairs Department has a. vote of £6780 for additional publicity for New Zealand.

Cost of living bonuses to public servants on superannuation, £21,782; cost of transporting of boy scouts to Dunedin for exhibition jamboree, £2000; purchase of land for Captain Cook memorial at Hawaii, £200; memorial for late. Hon. Sir Wm. Herries, subsidy £250; New Zealand Amateur Swimming Association, additional, £100. Royal Commission to inquire into agricultural banks, £5000. • Expenses of witness from New Zealand in Swaboda trial in Germany, £500.

The visit of American Fleet to New Zealand cost £15,000 for rail and motor .fares, illuminations, etc., and £5000 subsidies to local bodies' entertainment funds.

Hospital boards in the four chief centres have a vote of £500 each for provision of accommodation for mental cases under observation.

Otago University cancer research, £1 for £1 subsidy on donations, £500.

Pay and allowances for territorials attending camp, including casual labour, £6200. The Customs Department has a vote of £3250 for remission of duty on ships imported for river trading. The Labour Department has a £500 vote for technical tuition of apprentices. The Electoral Department provides £45,000 towards the cost of the general election, and £45,000 for printing rolls. For higher education, an additional £250 is voted for national research scholarships; £2500 for the maintenance of schools of forestry at Auckland and Christchurch; £2350 for expenses of the New Zealand University Commission. The MaTine Department provides £2250 for wireless equipment ait Puysegur and Stephens Island lighthouses.

The Defence Department requires £26,000 for the purchase of an aerodrome eitc at Auckland.