THE ESTIMATES

Dominion, Volume 19, Issue 253, 9 July 1926, Page 9

THE ESTIMATES

ITEMS OF INTEREST The following items which have been provided for in the Estimates are of interest :■ — liefund to trustees of Hemi Matenga of income tax, as recommended by Petitions Committee, £690. Valuations of. land for tax purposes, £10,060, representing one-third net annual cost of Valuation Department. Fireproof fittings, shelving, etc.. Stamp Duties Department, .£5OOO. Expenses in connection with Post and Telegraph Board of Appeal, £350. Panellings for committee room. League of Nations, Geneva, £125. Maintenance of Parliamentary Building, part of which is due to changeover lu voltage, and renovations, etc., £7300. Seddon Memorial, Wellington, cleaning and repairing, £6O. Clearing Native lands of noxious weeds, £2OOO. Commission re model Maori villages at Rotorua, £l5O. Confiscated Lands Commission. £lOO6. Grant to Bureau of Tropical Diseases, London, £lOO. Medical, educational, and wireless ser. vices. Samoa, ■ £BOOO. Expenses connecter! with League of Nations, Geneva, £9057. New Zealand delegate to Geneva, £5OO. Erection of leper accommodation at Fiji for Cook Islanders, £2OOO. Expenses of visit of Minister and party to Cook Islands, £99. Removal of lepers from Cook Islands, £3OOO. Grant to Sir M. Pomare to, meet extra expenses, Cook Islands visit, £l5O. Working expenses, including overhaul Hincmoa. £9500. Allowance io widow of Senior Detective T. W. Boddam. representing pay for unexpired period of leave, £B2. Bounty to Onakaka Iron and Steel Company, £7OOO. Systematic prospecting for minerals under Government direction, £3OOO. Cost of Census, 1926. £25,000.. Advertising New Zealand, special publicity work (part recoverable), £33,364. Beautification of area at Mr. Massey's grave, £lOO. Reduction of deer herds, £5OO. Furniture for new dining room. Government Buildings, Wellington, £4OO. Memorial to late Sir William Hornes, £250. "Society for Protection of Women and Children, £4OO. . t, Expenses of visit of Sir Frank Heath, £350. V T Travelling expenses Sir James Parr to London, £sto. Travelling expenses Sir James Allen to New Zealand, £5OO. St. Mary’s Guild Home, Karorf, £2to. Returned Soldiers* Association, railway pass for secretary, £9o. . Royal Commission abroad Ire agricultural banks, a.nd rural credits. £3713. , New Zealand war graves and memorials, .£5500. . . Hospital treatment of immigrants, £750. , . Travelling expenses of Dr. McEachern, U.S.A., and Dr. Main, £lB5. Battle practice target for N.Z. Naval Division, £4OOO. Expenses in connection with Naval Reserves, £5345. , - , Recent flying accident at Christchurch, £6.50. . . Expenses in connection with military pageants (recoverable), £3OOO. . Refund of Customs du.ty on oil-borm; plant, Taranaki oilfields, £4005. Compassio rate allowances to sister of late F. B. Leonard, fields inspector Dunedin, £lO6, and widow of W. M. Atkinson, draughtsman Land and Sur* vev Office, New Plymouth, £lOO. Grant towards Dr. Tilyard’s visit to .American and Fmrono on behalf of Cawthron Institute, £250. Grant to J. D. Ritchie, land purchase controller, on retirement, £413. Expenses in connection with members of Railway Department, visiting foreign countries on official business, £2OOO. "Railway Magazine.” printing and publication. C 4500. Woolston Tanneries Commission, £2OO. Transit expenses of veterinarians from England and Anston’ta £250. Grant to J. G. Myers, entomological correspondent in United States, £lOO. Irrigation Central Otago-grant. .?M Workers’ Educational Associations for organic ng purpose £l5OO.