THE ESTIMATES.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 3829, 9 August 1928, Page 3

THE ESTIMATES.

SOME ITEMS OF INTEREST. The estimates accompanying the Financial Statement presented to Parliament by the Minister of Finance (Hon. W. D. Stewart) on Tuesday contained provision Enina ny items of interest. These include the following: — Family allowances, £60,000. Refunds in respect to totalisator tax, £26,000. Contribution towards cost of naval base at Singapore, £125,000. Losses on operation of branch lines on isolated sections of railways, £485,000. Subsidies to hospital boards, £680,000. Grant for maintenance of Massey Agricultural College, £15,000; subsidy on voluntary contributions, £SOO. Motor Spirits Taxation Act, £750,000 payable to Main Highways Board. University bursaries, £15,000. Old-age pensions, £989,000; pensions for the blind, £13,000; widows’ pensions} j£308,000; miners’ pensions, £43,400; Maori War pensions, £14,000. Grant towards expenses of administration of Rural Intermediate Credit Act, £6OOO. War pensions and allowances, £990,000. Railway passes and concessions to members and ex-members of the Legislature, families, relations, etc., £24,522. New Zealand’s proportion of secretarial expenses in connection with the League of Nations for the year ending December 31, 1928, £9304.

Auckland Transport Commission, £2OOO. Departmental buildings, £14,000; mental hospitals,' £15,000; police station, £IO,OOO. Maintenance of Government House, Wellington, £1200; Parliamentary Buildings, £4OOO. Renewal of road bridges, £15,000; restoration of road works, bridges, etc., damaged by floods, £35,000. Expenses of Royal Commission into Samoan affairs, £3OO. Charges for and incidental to advertising New Zealand, £33,000. Expenses in connection with search for the missing airmen, Hood and Moncrieff, £673. Grant to the Society for the Protection of Women and Children (Wellington), £100; St. Mary’s Guild Home (Karori), £2OO. Beautification of the area in the vicinity and access to the grave of the late Mr. Massey at Point Halswell, £IOO. Stranded New Zealanders, £SOO. Visit of the Duke and Duchess of York, £3OO.

Maintenance of Karitane Hospital, Wellington, £IOOO. Expense of the visit of the Dunedin and Diomede to Samoa, £ll,500.

Field and heavy gun ammunition and other expenses, £20,000. Purchase of aircraft, spares, and miscellaneous equipment, £30,000. Expenses of Industrial Conference, £3750.

Pork export subsidy (on account), £15,000. Carriage of lime for bona-fide farmers, £31,000. Portion of freight rates on fertilisers (provided by Agricultural Department), £75,000.

Subsidy to cow-testing organisations, £OSOO. Maintenance .of Waitomo caves and hospital, £OOOO. Conveyance of school children and teachers and board allowances, £07,550. Teachers’ salaries, £1,735,000. . Forestry plantations at Karioi, £11,404. “Railway Magazine,” printing and publication, £7OOO. Subsidy to railways sick benefit society, £OSOO. Grants to railway officers on retirement, equivalent to salary in lieu of leave, £4OOO. Maintenance and operation of railway road motor services, £124,500. Maintenance of Post and Telegraph buildings, £30,000.