FINAL VOTES.

Evening Post, Volume LXXX, Issue 134, 3 December 1910, Page 9

FINAL VOTES.

— ♦ END OF THE SESSION PAYMENTS. ITEMS OF INTEREST. The Supplementary Estimates were laid before Parliament early this morning. The chief items on the list are as follow :—: — Additional vote for maintenance of Bellamy's staff, £290. Hine enquiry, reporting, printing, passages, fares, and expenses of witnesses, £1500. Photographs of Speakers and members of Legislative Council £69. San Francisco mail service, £3666. Rural telephones (assistance to settleis), £2000. Plant for Wellington city mail service. £595. , Plant for new sawmill, Kakahi, £3000. GOVERNMENT HOUSE. Government House, Wellington, £250. Temporary residence for n His Excellency the Governor and staff, making transport (additional), £150. Justice Department, Chief Clerk, £425, increase £25. • Expenses connected with reformatory farm, Tokanui, £1000. * Compensation to the widow of the late Sergeant M'Guire, £250. Compassionate allowance to Michael Quirke for loss of his son, shot while assisting in the search for Powelka, £200. Prospecting Retaruke coalfield, £300. Grant for refuge work (additional) under the Hospitals and Charitable Acts, £2000. Grant to Karitane Home, Dunedin, £500. Plunket nurses, eleven at £50 each, £550. Subsidies to Societies for the Promotion of Health of Women and . Children, £600. Compensation to J. J. Meikle, in full and final payment for wrongful imprisonment, £5000. Contribution towards Antarctic expedition (Captain Scott), £1000. Coronation expenses in New Zealand, £1000. Departmental enquiry, Taxes and Valuation Department, £1000. Expenses in connection with decease of King Edward VII. and accession of King George V., £400. Expenses' in connection r with military reviews, etc., during Field-marshal Lord Kitchener's visit, £7400. Festival of Empire, London, £2500. Grant to Prime Minister for expenses of attending the Imperial Conference and Coronation of the King, £1500. Grant to Minister of Education towards expenses in connection with the representation of the Dominion at the opening of the South Africa Union Parliament, £450. Grant to private secretary of Minister* of Education towards expenses of accompanying Minister to the opening of the South Africa Union Parliament, £200. Grant to swimmins associations for encouragement of swimming, £100. Grant in aid of Free Art Galleries, £2000. Gratuities to widows of late members of the Legislature: — Mrs. Baume, £300; Mrs. Trask, £300 ; Mrs. Holmes, £300; Mrs. Scotland, £300. Gratuity to daughters of the late Hon. R H. J. Reeves, £300. Official entertainments in London during: Coronation, £500. Payment, to medical officer, London, £1000. Seddon memorial, cost of grave and monuments (additional), on account' of £3000, £500. Visit of cadet representatives to Eng- ! land and Canada, £110. : , . j Passages and expenses of cadets attending Australian military colleges, £250. , Compassionate allowance to Mrs. Thomas Redmond, on account of fatal accident to her son, an officer- in the Customs Department, £100. Refund of Chinese poll tax on Chinese students and visitors temporarily resident in the Dominion, £1000. Installation of wireless telegraph apparatus on one Government steamer. £1000. Grant for improvement and maintenance of Foxton Harbour, £250. Repairing old soldiers' graves throughout the Dominion, £1000. Completion of report on sand drift, £100. Compassionate allowance to the widow of the late district valuer at Gisborne, £500. Compassionate allowance to the mother of the late district valuer at Dunedin, £235. Experiments in connection with "bush" sickness, £200. Equipment of young men's training quarters at Ruakura experimental farm, £1500. Guarantee on experimental shipment of apples, £325. Expenses Argentine Centennial Exhibition, £750 ; British-Japan Exhibition, £200; Roubaix, £200 (on account of £2250). Subsidy steam service, New Zealand to San Francisco, £3666. Temperance wall sheets for use in public schools, £575. Establishing safe deposit system at Public Trust Office, Wellington, £700; new Public Trust premises, Auckland, £7000; ditto, Greymouth, £1500. Expenses Tramways Brakes Commission, £515 ; Government House, Auckland, repairs and furnishing, £2200. Parliamentary Buildings, Wellington, alterations to streets and purchase of land (on account), £3000. Karori Post Office, £250. Maintenance and additions to school buildings, £33,000. Workers dwellings, alterations and enlargements, £15.000. Er&ction light Ditfinbach Point, £100. Compassionate allowance, Mrs. Helen M'lntyre, £100. . Expenses commission of enquiry into working Land and Income Tax Department, £35 12s. . , Allowance to W. Dinnie, ex-Commis-sioner Police, equal to six months' salary in lieu of notice, £312 10s. Reward for discovery of Blackwater goldfield, Mangahua, £500.