ADDITIONAL VOTES

Evening Post, Volume CXXX, Issue 28, 1 August 1940, Page 5

ADDITIONAL VOTES

OVER £1#80 ; G00

SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATES

NEW JDEPARTMENTS

An additional £1,388,312 is added to the estimates of expenditure for the present financial year by the Supplementary Estimates which came before the House of Representatives yesterday. Votes for two new Departments —National Service and Linen Flax Development—are included, and amounts are added to the yotes of three trading Departments to meet income tax for which they are now liable. The vote for the National Service Department is divided into three sections: employment promotion, manpower, and repatriation. The vote of £101j440 for employment promotion is the largest of the.three, man-power receiving £70,638, and repatriation £500, making a total of. £172,578. However, credits-in-.aid amounting to £71,138 make the net total vote £101,440. The biggest single item in the vote is £56,350 for salaries under employment promotion. ','..■ , The vote for linen flax development totals £430,000, of which land, works, and machinery takes £214,000 (a portion of the total estimated cost of £275,000). Working expenses take £261,000. The items are land acquisition, £4000; factory buildings and tanks, £80,000; factory machinery and installation, £20,000; field machinery and vehicles, £50,000; housing. £20,000; freight, materials, and preliminary expenses, £40,000; wages, £21,000; purchase and harvesting of seed and straw, £200,000; materials, repairs, compensation/etc, £40,000. PAYMENT OF TAX. Provision for the payment of taxation is made for the State Coal Mnies Account, £8500; the Commercial Broadcasting Service, £11,562; and the Electricity Supply Account, £100,000. / Other items of interest include a vote of £20,000 for the provision of housing for agricultural workers in, the Pukekohe areas, £1400 for women police, an additional £6000 grant to the New Zealand School of Agriculture, £10,000 for salvaging and disposing of materials from the Port Bowen, which was wrecked near Wanganui, and £63,000 as a subsidy to the sugar industry. The last two amounts, which are voted for- the Department of industries and Commerce, [ are recoverable. ! There is an additional vote of £203,000. reduced by credits-in-aid of £3000 to '£200,000, for railway conI struction, and £82,050 is provided for railway improvements and additions to open lines. WELLINGTON BUILDINGS. There is a vote of £6000 for additional land for new ante-natal and post-natal clinics at the Wellington St. Helens Hospital. Votes for roads total £70,000, including £1850 for the Wellington Road District. There is an additional £192.500 for irrigation, water supply, and drainage. Votes in the Unauthorised Expendi-' ture Account include £735 for the evacuation of the High Commissioner's staff,. £2396 for the cost of the visit of the Hon. P. Fraser and party to Great Britain, £200 for allowances to members of the Court of Arbitration for special services, £196* for . expenses, of members of the Industrial Emergency Council, £50,000 as subsidy on wages paid for the settlement of unemployed workers on small farms, £81,510 for the subsidy on super-phosphates, and £3312 for the purchase of the "N.Z, Radio Record."