Cost Of State Funerals

Northern Advocate, 25 August 1943, Page 2

Cost Of State Funerals

(P.A.) WELLINGTON. This Day. Votes totalling' £1,099.130 are provided for in tiie Supplementary Estimates presented in the House of Representatives yesterday. An additional grant of £2500 is provided for granls to local bodies for earthquake damage repairs. There was a vote of .£20,000 for this purpose on the Main Estimates. in the Internal Affairs Vote there are several items to cover the funeral expenses of the three Ministers of the Crown who recently died in office. They are the late Rl. Hon. J. G. Coates. £1250; ihe late Hon. 11. T. Armstrong, £232; the late Hon. P, K. Paikea, £2OOO. Part of the lastnamed amount is recoverable, £370 having been contributed by Maoris towards the cost of food used at tang is A vote of £3OOO is made to the Cook Islands Administration as an additional amount for restoration of hurricane damage and rehabilitation of plantations. Keiteia»gi Manhunt A compassionate grant of £990 is made to the widow of the late Mr. G. S. Ridley, who was fatally injured while assisting the police at the Koitorangi manhunt in October. 1941. An, additional vote of £10,0(10 is made for development of the flax-milling industry. .£20,000 having been provided in the Main Estimates. The Working Railways Account contains a vote of £25.000 to cover the cost of National Savings bonds issued to employees in payment for holiday leave accrued to December 31. 1041, and not granted. Under the Post and Telegraph Working Expenses Account there is an item of £505 j for contribution to Cable and Wireless Ltd. to enable uniform rates for cable .messages within the Empire to be reduced to local currency. There was £1915 provided for this purpose on the Main Estimates. The agreement expired on April 25 last and the additional amount is required for payment of subsidy to that date. There is also a vote of'£7ooo to provide for photographic processing of inward and outward airgraph mails. There is also a vote of £36.000 to cover the cost of remuneration of members of tire Land Sales Court and Land Sales Committees yet to be appointed in accordance with provisions in the Servicemen’s Settlement and Land Sales Bill. Compensation totalling' £SOO is awarded to Warder J. G. Crawford, who was injured in the course of his duty at Mt. Eden prison several years ago.