SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATES

Press, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22269, 7 December 1937, Page 12

SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATES

Increase in Votes Provided For A TOTAL OF £1,613,318 Big Sum for Public Works [From Our Parliamentary Reporter.] WELLINGTON, December fi. Additional expenditure totalling £1613,31? for the current financial year is provided for in the Supplementary Estimates, which were presented in the House of Representatives to-day. The detailed increases are as fallows: — £ Legislative Department .. 4,161 Prime Minister's Department j>4B Finance •• ,v - g'SaS General Administration .. 82,489 Law and Order .. ■ • M<* TMence .. •• •• 6 ' 06 ? . amVenance •• • \ 88 - 3W) Development ot Primary and Secondary Industries .. 2U4,fa10 Social Services Credit .. 60,308 Public Works Fund .. 371,945 Land for Settlements .. 65,000 State Coal Mines .. .. 3,771 State Forests Account .. 1,233 Working Railways Account .'. 91,698 Post Office Account .. 219,629 Public Trustee's Account .. 13,325 Government Insurance Account .. • • • • " 79 ° Public Service Superannuation .. • • • • 295 State Fire Insurance .. 27,386 Dairy Industry Account .. 1,490 Broadcasting Account .. 18,915 With the additional expenditure shown in the Supplementary Estimates, which make provision for salary increases arising from the reclassification of the Civil Service, the total estimated expenditure under all headings for this financial year amounts to £36,341,318. The following are items taken from various departmental votes. Legislative Department: £IOO for the installation of a telephone exchange in Parliament Buildings. Land and Income Tax Department: Additional payment of £1530 for overtime and meal allowances necessitated by the late passing of this year's taxing legislation. Internal Affairs Department: £IOOO for allowances and travelling expenses to members of the National Council of Physical Welfare and Kecreation; £1313 as New Zealand's share of the cost of the painting ot the Coronation to be presented to His Majesty tne King; £6OO xor assistance to swimming ana life-saving societies; £3OOO to cover the preliminary expenses of the national health and superannuation scheme, including salary and allowances to the Imperial Civil Service actuary lent to New Zealand; a refund of £1228 in New Zealand currency by the Prime Minister (the Rt. Hon. M. J. Savage) from the grant of £ISOO sterling for his visit to the Coronation and Imperial Conference (credit). Samoan Estates External Affairs Department: £4250 for additional improvements and maintenance costs of the reparation estates, Western Samoa; £4OOO to cover the additional working expenses of the Government motor vessel Maui Pomare. Labour Department: £923 to cover the salaries of the nominated members and officials of the Second Arbitration Court; additional miscellaneous payments totalling £4161, principally arising from the increased number of industrial disputes. Army grants of £B6O toward the regimental funds of territorial units; grants of £2OO toward the provision of recreational equipment for permanent personnel at the forts and schools of instruction. Maintenance of public works and services: £30,000 for the maintenance and repair of river protection works throughout New Zealand; £50,000 for additional plant, the amount of £IOO,OOO provided in the main estimates being insufficient to cover requirements for the current year. Agriculture Department: £4OO for installing experimental equipment to test methods of combating the frost menace to orchards; a grant of £27,000 to cover the establishment of a school of agriculture, which will decide the policy of agricultural instruction and allocate to Massey and Canterbury Agricultural Colleges moneys received from Government sources and bequests, a grant of £16,000 to Massey College on the main estimates to be included in this sum; additional grants of £15.000 for railway carriage of lime lor farmers. £BB,OOO as portion of freight rates on fertilisers, and £13.000 as portion of freight rates on farm produce: an additional subsidy of £2OOO for the suply of sodium chlorate and atlacido for the destruction of ragwort

Film Publicity Tourist and Publicity Department: £5700 for the purchase of film and photographic equipment, to be used in special publicity work. Scientific and Industrial Research Department: £250 for the purchase of linen flax seed from England, to be grown by selected farmers in Canterbury and Marlborough, with a view to establishing a linen flax industry in New Zealand. Mines Department: £BOO to provide additional social amenities in mining towns. Transport Department: £3500 to cover additional expenses in the road safety campaign; £3OOO for the purchase -of motor-cars and equipment from the Main Highways Board. Health Department: An additional bounty of £SO to the parents of quadruplets born in Dunedin. Education Department: Additional grants of £4348 to the university colleges for general purposes—Auckland University College £925, Victoria University College £9OO, Canterbury College £IOOO, Otago University £1935, Auckland University College School of Engineering £80; additional grant of £20,000 for the maintenance of school buildings and training colleges; additional grant of £2630 to the New Zealand Institute for the Blind in order to bring the annual grant up to £4120. Pensions Department: Credit of £160,000 for the amount provided in i the main Estimates; but not required. | Railway construction: Additional i grant of £IOO,OOO for the Gisborne-1 Waikokopu section of the East Coast railway; additional grant of £ 100,000 for the Wharanui-Parnassus section of the South Island Main Trunk railway. Public buildings: £34,500 for the acquisition of properties in Molesworth street and Lambton quay, Wellington, for departmental buildings; a grant of £2OOO to the New Zealand Institute for the Blind on account of education buildings. Irrigation, water supply, and drainage: £IO,OOO on account of the Downs water supply scheme, Canterbury; £24,950 in addition to the main estimates vote of £207,000 to cover general requirements. Native land settlement: £69.000 on land development schemes, and £IOOO on the acquisition of new land to be recovered, by estimated receipts of £70.000 from development schemes. Working railways account: £60,613 J» cover the ooat of adimtmants in.

connexion with anomalies arising out of the introduction of the 40-hour week; £28,000 to cover the cost of regrading in the first division of the railway service. Post Office Account: Additional payment of £20,000 to cover bank exchange, commission, discount, and stamp duty necessitated by an increase in the money order and other funds remitted to the United Kingdom and elsewhere.