THE ESTIMATES

Manawatu Standard, Volume LIII, Issue 9, 8 December 1932, Page 6

THE ESTIMATES

SUPPLEMENTARY LIST. VARIETY OF VOTES. (By Standard.) The Supplementary Estimates sunmitted to the House of Representatn-os are for the unusually small total ot £133 510. The largest item is £57,910 (for the Department of Agriculture), but £42,335 of this amount is to rectify an error of the main Estimates which allowed this department too high a, Cr Public votes total £59,347 There is an item of £SOO for additional expenses of delegates to the Disarmament Conference, 1932. . The amount of £2666 is provided to , cover misappropriations from the High Commissioner’s Office, London. uJditKinal sum °{ A PmVt"°\v* ! to the widow of the late Mr 1. \\. . Makitanara, M.P- , nttewn. ' Additional expenses of the Ottan a Conference delegation are set dow n at . £4 l,?‘the vote of the External Affairs , Department there is an item of £448 to meet damages and costs awarded againsa New Zealand Reparation Estates by the High Court of AVestern Samoa. The Labour Department estimates in- ; elude a vote of £334 to cover the ; salaries of the additional Conciliation Commissioners appointed undei the Amendment The sum of £3OO is provided to defray the cost of by-elections and there, is au additional £SO to meet expenses of the general election. , . Additional expenses of mortgagors relief commissions are shown at £oooo. An additional sum of £6oo is voted to the Police Department for expenses in connection with street riots and dis--01 Provision is made for the expenditure of £550 on repair of the earthquake damage at AYairoa. . „ The Department of Lands and Suivey votes include £SOO for compensation for land taken in connection with the \\ aitangi Reserve, and a further £2oo top the renovation of buildings and fences. There is a vote of £IO,OOO additional for the carriage of lime for bona lidd farmers, and £SOOO additional tor subsidies for manufacturers of superphosProvision is made for £<o,ooo foi the purchase of milling wheat in Australia, but it is estimated that this amount will be returned to the Crown. _ An additional £IOO is included in the Mines Department vote ns a bounty to the Onakaka Iron and Steel Co., Ltd. The sum of £1358 is provided in the Post Office Account for additional interest payable to the New Zealand Radio Broadcasting Co. on radio license fees not paid over. The cost in connection with the establishment of State Advances commission agencies is shown as £I7BO. The Post and Telegraph Department requires £29,794 to make retrospective the payment of exchange on Imperial pensions paid in New Zealand from. January 1, 1930, to December 31,1931. Another exchange expense is £8125 incurred on remitting £19,937 from London to New York in payment of interest on New Zealand consolidated Items of interest from the unauthorised expenditure account include the expenses of the Comptroller of Customs on the delegation to Honolulu in connection with the New Zealand-Canadiau trade treaty, £240; expenses of the Minister of Customs and party to Honolulu, £617; and potatoes supplied to indigent Natives, £635.

OTHER ITEAIS.

PURCHASE OF LAND AT OTAKI.

WELLINGTON, Dec. 8. Additional items in the Supplementary Estimates are as follow : The Internal Affairs Department’s vote provides £2B to cover the cost of the late Air G. C. C. Black’s funeral. There is an item of £33 to pay the funeral expenses of Air H. AV. Uru, ex-AI.P.

The expenses incurred by the Minister for the Cook Islands, Sir Apirana Ngata, and his private secretary, on their recent visit to the group, amounted to £lO2. Provision for this is made in the Native Department’s vote.

An additional sum of £2OO is voted for the maintenance of the Chateau, huts, and tracks at the Tongariro National Park.

For the purchase of land at Otaki for the purpose of providing rest homes for .destitute and old people there is an item of £1261 in the estimates of the Health Department. Additional provision for subsidies to hospital boards amounts to £32,000. There is an item of £IOO4 by way of a grant to the Wellington College Board to cover compensation to the contractor for delay in respect to the contract for the Wellington Boys’ College building. The Working Railways Account contains an item of £ll to make up the shortage as a result of money, stolen by burglars at Ashluirst. Pakipaki, Himata.ngi, and the Bus’ Department, Lower Hutt.

In the Post Office Account there is an item of £350 ns remuneration and travelling expenses of a Now Zealand representative to the Telegraph Conference at Madrid. Tho loss of cash and values on the destruction of the Napier and Port Aliuriri Post Offices by earthquake and lire accounts for a vote of £438.