THE FINANCIAL STATEMENT.

Press, Volume LVII, Issue 10739, 20 August 1900, Page 6

THE FINANCIAL STATEMENT.

JOTTINGS FROM THE ESTIMATES

(__tO_. OUTt OWN CO-tKESPONDENT.) WELLINGTON, August 18. Amongst the items on the Estimates are:—Bonus on the exportation of canned and cured fish £800 (voted last year £750, spent £1044), Inspector of Fisheries £300, fish hatcheries £1000, experimental trawling £800, extinguishing fire Cardiff coal mine £500, Schools of Mines £2800 (voted last year £200, spent £1617), two assistants to meat inspectors £300. The Tutanekai's trips to Samoa cost £1315.

The salary of the Secretary to the Department of Labour is raised from £410 to £430, and that of the Chief Clerk from £310 to £335. An additional clerk at £110 i_ set down. The salary of the Produce Commissioner in England is to be increased from £250 to £300, and of the Government Biologist from £310 to £330. An additional rabbit inspector at £235 for the Wellington-West Coast district is provided for. The General Manager and the Assistant-General Manager of Railways receive an increase of £100 each, making their respective salaries £1000 and £900. The Commissioner of Police rises from £550 to £575. Provision is made for an additional surveyor at £230 in the Lands Department. An under-secretary at a salary of £450 is a new office provided for in the Industries and Commerce Department, and the salary of the only other officer in this office is fixed at £175. Hitherto there has been only a clerk at £325. The taking up by the Government of accident insurance necessitates additional estimates under this head, and they consist of £100 for the Commissioner (also life insurance £800), and £3000 for preliminary expenses and contingencies; £3000 was voted last year, but nothing expended.

. [Fbo_- a Cobrespoxdukt.] WELLINGTON, August 18. The increases in the salaries of civil servant- disclosed by the estimates consist of the usual £10 increments in some of the salaries up to about £200. with augmentation of higher salaries in certain cases where the departments (have grown in * importance. Anomalie- are apparent whioh will lead to enquiry and criticism when the House comes to grant supplies. Among the Canterbury, officers who received £10 increments are the Deputy Registrar of the Supreme Court, the Clerk of the Court at Ashburton, the matron of Lyttelton prison, some of the customs clerks and cadets, the clerk and cadet in the stamp office, clerks in the Land and Deeds Registry, and the Assistant Surveyor, clerks and cadets in the Land Office.

"Provision as made for one warehouse keeper for Lyttelton-Christchuroh customs, one cadet for the Land and Deeds Registry, a receiving home at Christchurcb for children committed to the Industrial schools and for a mounted drill instructor (six months.