THE ESTIMATES

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2551, 27 August 1915, Page 5

THE ESTIMATES

» PROVISION FOR THE COMING YEAR Tho estimates of expenditure for 1015-10. which wcro brought down with tho Budget last night provido for a sum from tho revenue account of £1ii,65ij,242, against an expended amount for 191-1-15 of £12,271,21)0. Items in the various classes are detailed below, the amount given in parentheses being the sum expended curing tho 1914-15 year. I'crmaneut Appropriations.—Civil list: £24,100 (£21,054); interest and sinking fund: £3,112,343 (£3,071,448). Under special Acts of the Legislature: £1,486,850 (£1,411,775). Annual Appropriations.—Legislative Departments: / Legislative • Council, £1,800 (£1701); House of Representatives £8330 (£94Bl){'general oxpenses, £27,193 (£26,370). Total of class, £37,323 (£37,552), .' Departments of ■ Finance. —Treasury: £9682 (£10,511); National Provident and Friendly Societies' Office £12,018 (£7634); Land and Income Tax Department, £24,617 (£27,074); Pensions Department, £10,140 (£9880). naval de-. feuce, £100,315 (£65)874); Treasury (miscellaneous), £7595 (£49,050)..;, Total of Class: £165,492 (£170,134).* Post and Telegraph Department.— Postal and telegraph salaries (classified officers £733,090, non-classified officers £60,800) £793,890 (£747,649) ; conveyance of mails by sea, £74,520 (£79,727); conveyance 1 of inland mails, £96,950 . (£89,094); carriage of mails by railway, 1 £71,265 (£71,547); maintenance of telegraph and telephone lines,. £95,400 (£91,765); • miscellaneous ' services, £162,479 (£164,787). Total of Class: £1,294.504 (£1,244,569). ; Working Railways Department.— Total for Class: £2,920,000 (£2,888,341). . Gross revenue, estimated for 1915-IG. £4,000,000; actual revenue 1914-15 £4,105,457. Publio Buildings, Domains and Jfaintenance of Roads.—Public buildings, £70,350 (£65,387); Government domains, £3400,(£2976); maintenance and improvement of roads, £50,000 (£49,313). Total of class, 1 - £123,750 (£117,676). Items: ■ Renovations ,to Masterton Post Office, £150; rearranging lighting, alterations, etc., old building, Wellington Post Office, ' £1500 (£258). . Native Department, £25,563 (£24,005). Justice Department.—Magistrate's and Warden's Courts, . £51,522 (£49,335); prisons, £53,809 (£52,354); Polico Department, £255,069 (£234,674); Stamp Department, £15,516 (£15,052); Land and Deeds Registry, £34,576 (£32,799). Total of class, £469,656 (£442,478). Items: Contributions towards'cost of Judges' Library, Wellington, £250. Mines' Department.—Mines, : £10,345 (£9415); Geological Survey. Branch, £4295 (£3789); miscellaneous, £21,845 (£15,966). Total of class, £36,485 (£29,170). V Department of Internal Affairs.— Total of class, £408,866 (£489,206). Mental hospitals, £132,180 (£125,982); Tourists, £51,830 (£49,823); Public Health, Hospitals, and Charitable Aid, £51,534 (£60,760); High Commissioner's Office, £10,952 (£11,843); Dominion Laboratory, £4789 (£4646). Items: Contribution towards funds of N.Z. War Contingent Association in London, for wounded and invalid Now Zealanders, £500; cost of renovating Captain Hobson's grave, £50; maintenance, St. Helen's Hospital, • Welington, £1400 (£1365). '■■ Defence Department.—Adjutant-Gen-eral's' branch, £183,487 (£187,013); General Staff branch, £10,420 (£5077); Quartermaster-General's branch, £298,358 (£307,047). Total of class, £492,'265 (£499,137). Items: Annual grant for rifle-shooting prizes and marking fees,' £1000 (£1039); . rifle-shoting expenses, including ■ grant to Dominion RSle Association, £1000 (£326). Customs, Marine , and Harbours, and Inspection of Machinery Departments. —Total of class, (£149,200). , Department of ' Labour, —Total of class, £31,377 (£28,142). Department of Lands and Survey.— Total of .class, £239,357 (£239,043). Items Wanganui 'River improvement, £1000 (£2000).." Department : of Agriculture,. Industries and Commerce. —Total of class, £213,946 (£206,731). Items, San Francisco Exhibition, £8000 (£12,949). Education. —Total of class, £1,390,445 (£1,207,983; elementary education, £912,501 (£754,189); . secondary and higher education, £112,476 (£95,753); technical instruction, £57,015 (£82,514); training-colleges and training of teachers, £47,726 (£42,210); medical inspection, £3205 (nil) -, physical training a!nd junior cadets, £6975 (£8241); Native schools, £35,172 (£32,837); infant life protection, £1570 (£1374); school for tho deaf,-. £4220 (£3466) ; education of the blind, - £275 (£101); industrial schools, £44,345 (£39,303); ' school buildings, furniture, sites, £126,180 (£118,101). Item, medical officer for schools, Wellington (part time), £55. State Forests- Account. —£31,937. (£30,318). State Coal • Mines. — '£262,367 (£209,642). Scenery Preservation, — £11,098 (£7887). Land for Settlements 'Account.-— £8610 (£7160). , Public Trustees 'Account.—£so,s42 I (£42,929). , Government Insurance/ — £72,707 (£73,319)..' • Government 'Accident Insurance.— £7200 (£6226). State Fire Insurance.—£s3,B9l (£21,926). State Advances.— £590,770 (£555,838) Native Land Settlement.—£l7Bo (£166-5). : ' -