MORE MONEY

Auckland Star, Volume LXXII, Issue 238, 8 October 1941, Page 10

MORE MONEY

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VOTES ASKED FOR

SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATES

(By Telegraph.—Parliamentary Reporter.) WELLINGTON, this day. Additional totals of £711,151 for the Ordinary Revenue Account, £305,150 for the Public Works Account and £186,649 for Separate Accounts are to be voted in the Supplementary Estimates which were introduced in Parliament yesterday by Governor-General's message. All State Departments are not concerned in the additional votes, some even being left with a credit as a result of refunds since the Main Estimates were prepared or because amounts previously voted are not now required. An additional £2500 for the Prime Minister's Department includes £2000 towards the preliminary expenses of establishing a New Zealand Legation at Washington. A grant of £500 as a compassionate allowance to Mrs. \V. J. Lyon is included in £2000 voted to the Internal Affairs Department. Mrs. Lyons' husband, who was member of Parliament for Waitemata, was killed in action in Crete.

Another £4000 is voted towards the new engines of the New Zealand Government's motor vessel Maui Pomare, £32,500 having been voted in the Main Estimates.

The National Service Department is placed in credit to the extent of £35.(25. The additional Armed Forces Appeal Boards and the Special Appeal Tribunals are voted £3195 for salaries and £4395 for office snd travelling expenses, but £43,315 is placed in credit as being no longer required by National Service organisations owing to the Army Department taking over the Home Guard. Police Department The Police Departmnet is voted another £20,578. Of this £10,512 is for salaries, £1000 for house allowance, £4500 for the purchase of launches, and £1000 for the maintenance of the launches for part of the year. These amounts are explained as being necessary to provide for the crews of police launches at Auckland, Wellington and Lvttelton, to provide the three launches and for their running. Provision is made for six police officers at each port, two being for day duty, two for night duty and one for relieving duty. Of £264,322 voted for the Department of Agriculture, £229,422 is for subsidy on the manufacture of superphosphate and £12,000 for subsidy on butter boxes. There is also an additional £40,452 in the Industries and Commerce vote for sugar subsidy.

Another £3750 is voted to the Health Department for dental clinics. Special assistance to large families accounts for £10,000 of £10,100 voted to the Education Department.

War Pensions

Additional provision for war veterans allowances and £275,000 for present war pensions account for a vote of £289,500 to the Social Security Department. The addition to the pensions vote is on account of the casualties in Greece and Crete. The £30.000 paid for the Blackball coal mine is provided for in the State Coal Mine Account, which is voted an additional £70,000 in all. A War Damage Fund is established with a vote of £1650, mainly for office and travelling expenses. Linen Flax Development receives a vote of £116,000, of which £2000 is ior stores and £114,000 for the erection and operation of factories at 17 centres.

In the Lnauthorised Expenditure Account there is provision for £550 as expenses for the Economic Stabilsation Conference, £562 for the cost transport for Lord Galwav . ls famil - v ret urning to England, 1140 to meet evacuation expenses of f9nnnn Co m mi ssioner's staff, and for housing Maori agricultural workers at Pukekohe. The production of fish-liver oil in New Zealand to replace the cod-liver oil 110 longer available for importation is reflected in a vote of £60 9/ for the erection of a shed at Island Bav, livers the stora S e of fish