SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATES

Press, Volume LXXXI, Issue 24742, 6 December 1945, Page 4

SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATES

TOTAL' VOTE OF £1,740,226 £IO,OOO FOR PHYSICAL WELFARE (P.A.) WELLINGTON, Dec. 5. A total vote of £1,740,226 is provided for in supplementary estimates for the current financial year, presented to the House of representatives to-day. The vote for the ordinary revenue account of the Consolidated Fund amounts to £737,076; that for separate accounts to £689,556; and that for accounts outside the public account to £313,594. An additional amount of £1035 is voted for conveying the New Zealand minister, staff and families to and from Washington on appointment and transfer. There was £SOO on the main estimates for this purpose. ' In the vote for the Department of Internal Affairs there is an amount of £IO,OOO for grants and subsidies to organisations to foster physical welfare and recreation.

A compassionate grant of £SOO is made to the widow of Mr J. W. Munro. M.P. <

The expenses of the visit overseas by the Chief Justice (the Rt. Hon. Sir Michael Myers) and Mr C. C. Aikman in connection with the establishment of a permanent court of international justice is represented by a vote of £IOSO.

Coal Shortage There is a vote- of £7OOO by way of subsidy towards the cost of the road transport of timber to maintain building activities in Auckland and the Waikato during 'the period of the coal shortage. _ In the Island Territories vote there ls . £ _ Blß for the vlsit to New Zealand of the Samoan fautua. An additional £4551 is voted for the Bluff-Stewart Island ferry service, which is to be run by the Marine Department.

A credit of £133,400 in the Labour department's vote for the promotion of employment is transferred to the vote for the National Employment Service, *sn^Si ch there is a new vote of There is a vote of £3OO for the expenses of the conference called by the Minister of Labour in connection with industrial unrest Butter Research

A note to the vote for the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research states that a fats research laboratory has been set up for the primary purpose of investigating the composition of New Zealand butter in view of the serious competition expected from margarine on the English market t , An , additional £IBO,OOO is voted to the Social Security Fund for maternity hospital and pharmaceutical benefits, but it is stated that expenditure to date indicates that the provision made m the main estimates will be sufficient There is an additional £IO,OOO in the vote for the State Forest Service account for the acquisition of land for forestry purposes. It is stated that this Uoi-i^ l^ 1, of land for the rehabilitation of former servicemen. There is also a vote of £87,500 for ttSnhf J* o3^* 8 , with * in e Auckland, Wellington. Nelson, Westland, Canterbury, and Southland conservancies. There is a grant of £IOOO to the Nganmu V.C. and 28th (Maori) Battalion memorial scholarship fund. In the unauthorised expenditure account provision is made for a compassionate grant of £SOO to the widow of Brigadier James Hargest. M.P There is an amount of £74,314 for the purchase of the Ohai open cast col-1

liery, the Wairaki colliery, and the Morley coal lease. ' , - In the statement of sums irrecovex able by the Crown there is shown* loss of cash amounting to *?';•*!: arising out of the Greek and Libya" campaigns. . '