THIRD EDITION

Evening Post, Volume XCVI, Issue 140, 10 December 1918, Page 8

THIRD EDITION

SUPPLEMENTARY

SOME OF THE "EXTRAS"

The Siiplementary Estimates, which wero paaeed by the House this morning, include 'allowances of £400 each to the widows^of the late Messrs.. Okey and R. Fletcher (members of . Parliament) j £100 (additional) to the widow, of the late Mr. G.'Parata, M.P. ; £400.t0 the family of the late Mr. A. H. Hindmarsh, M.P.; £400 to the widow of the late Mr. A. ,H. Stevenson (Munitions and Supplies office); compassionate allowance to widow and family' of the late Judge Wilson, Native Land Court, £625; compassionate allowance to t»e widow of the late Mr. H. Wellbourne, formerly of Bellamy's staff, £150.

Grant to Mr. A. W. Hogg, £100. Grants .to cover expenses incurred by Prime Minister and. Minister of Finance during recent visit to England, £3000.

Expenses of private secretaries accompanying Prime Minister and Minister of Finance during recent visit to England, £1000.

Imperial Press Delegation: Fares and incidental expenses of New Zealand delegates (to be recovered from the Imperial Ministry of Information), £300.

Memorial cairn, late Sir Johp Mac Kenzie, re-erection of, £500.

Provision of petitions, etc., under consideration, £2000.

Rangi Kerehoma Estate (expenses of Commission), £772.

Subsidies to Boy Scout movement, £500.

Totalisators, expenses incidental to inspection of, £600. Town-planning, expenses in connection with, £150.

Turnbull Library, expenses in connection with, including the purchase of the late Mr. A. H. TurnbullV residence, £10,000. -

Y.W.C.A.: Subsidy on account of accommodation provided for girls employed in the Civil Service, £600.'

To Mr. Raymond R. M. Brien, collision with a departmental motor lorry, £275.'

Compassionate allowance to widow of late Mr. W. J. Buckley, Magistrate's Court, Wellington, £290. I Compassionate allowance to widow of late Mr. 1 W Gollan, Chief Clerk, Jrutice Department, £385. Remuneration to Magistrates for extra duties during war period, £800. Expenses of extradition of John C. Harrison (charged with obtaining money under false pretences),, from • Victoria, ,'British Columbia, £638.

Expenses in connection 1 with conference between Government, Miners' Federation, and Coal-mine owners, £600.

Experimental rock-drilling demonstration, £200. Inquiry by. Parliamentary Committee (during the-recess) regarding promotion of local industries, £1000.