FURTHER ESTIMATES.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 18235, 31 October 1922, Page 8

FURTHER ESTIMATES.

SUPPLEMENTARY LIST.

ITEMS OF INTEREST.

COMPASSIONATE ALLOWANCES. [BY TELEGRAPH. —BPECIAL REPORTER.]

WELLINGTON. Monday. Following are items of general interest on the Supplementary Estimates brought down to-night:— Passages of .members of Parliament, other than provided for by the Civil List Act, 1920, £1800. Compassionate allowance to the widow of the lato Mr. P. C Corliss, Commissioner of Stamps £1500. Wireless system at Aitutaki, £1500. British Empire Exhibition, £15,000. Compassionate allowance to widow of tha late Mr. *V. G. Day, stipendiary magistrate. £388. *" Compassionate allowances to the -widow and invalid child of the lato Mr. E. Kellctt, M.P.. £500. Widow of the lato Mr. J. H. W. Urn, M.P.. £500. Widow of the lato Hon. Teheuheu Tukmo, M.L.C., £50. Widow of the lato Mr. P. J. Nerhony, • M.L.C £100. Widow of Mr. C. Morris, killed in I 91& at Otira railway works by landslide, £94. Mr. W. T. Wood, ex-M.P., £50. Compassionate allowance, £500. and advance by way of loan (£750) to Mr. W. J. Mather, late railway employee, £1250. Contribution toward relief of refugees in Smyrna. £1000. Cost of entertaining visitors to the Dominion and of official functions (additional), £250. Disarmament Conference at Washington, 1921 (additional), £1000. . Grants to New Zealand's Institute for Earthquake Investigation at Taupo, £100. Hague and Conference travelling expenses, and allowances of official secretary. £525. English cricket team, proposed visit, cost of cables, £44. History :of Now Zealand war. cost of printing volumes I. and II- (additional), £185. Official history of the vii.it of the Prmce of Wales to New Zealand, cost of printing and publication. £350. Cost of copies of the Peace Treaty, £742. Itailway superannuation fund, sedition to subsidy. £50,000. Iteturnod Soldiers' Association conference, rail fares of delegates, £150. Stores Control Board, £300. Subsidy toward re-erecting memorial to the late Sir John Mackenzie, £ for £ (additional). £450. Subsidy, £ for £, op to £500, to Dominion Boy 'Scouts' Association, £500. Teachers' superannuation fund, addition to mibsidv, £25.000. Maternity hospital at Hastings, £3000. Hoval New Zealand Society for the Health of Women and Children, Plunkeb nurses (additional). £1875. KaritaneHarris Hospital, Dunedin (additional), £500. Karitane-Wolfe Hospital. Christ.church (additional), £250. KantaneI Stewart Hospital, Wanganui (additional). ! £250 Knox Home for Incurables, £500. I St. Mary's Guild Home, Karori, £200. St. Mary's Homo, Otahubu, £200. Salvation Armv (additional), £500. St. John Ambulance Society (additional), £400. Whangarei Hospital Board (valid- ; ation item). £2326. Establishment of inquiry agency in America, £1000. Destruction of rabbits on Crown land, wages and other expenses, £10,000, and on Maori lands. £7500. Alteration of boundaries of the Poverty Bay land registration districtf, transcribe j ing of records and documents, £2000. Expenses of Rbtorua-Taupo railway com- ! mission, £350. A. L. Souter, in full I settlement "f compensation on account of costs incurred in Souter v. Souter and others, £250. Leave of absence (six months) to Mr. T. Harle Giles, late conciliation commissioner, Auckland, £303. Forestry operations for relief of unemployed, Kaingaroa, Waireka, and Eotorua, £3000; Waimakariri area,, £3000; other dibtricts, £50. Trounson'a kauri forest, charges in connection with, acquisition and maintenance of, £1745. SUPERANNUATION FUNDS.

GOVERNMENT'S POLIOY. CHANGE IN SYSTEM LIKELY. [BX TELEGRAPH.—PRESS ASSOCIATION.] WELLINGTON. Monday. Speaking on the third reading of the Finance Bill to-night, the Prime Minister showed that the Government now contributed to the superannuation funds out of consolidated revenue a total of £229000 annually. That largo amount had to be found out of revenue. They all believed in superannuation. Mr. H. Atmore: Where does the outside man come in,? The Prime Minister: That is the trouble.Sir John Luke: Make it apply all round.

The Prime Minister said that next year tho Government would hive to reconsider what it was doing, in connection with superannuation. Hb regretted it was quite impossible to do so this year. It was quite, clear that some change would have to bo made in the system. Sir John Luke : Will you go in for a universal system ? The Prime Minister: It would he better to do that than continue on the way we are doing. It would mean a big increase in taxation, but* the people would get the money back. We cannot go. on placing this enormouo burden on the finances of tho country. Very manyuseful suggestions have been made and these I will consider. INTERNATIONAL LABOUR. f "DOMINION REPRESENTATION. [by telegraph.—special reporter. 3 WELLINGTON. Monday. In the House to-day Mr. P. Fraser (Wellington Central) suggested to the Prime Minister that arrangements should be made for the representation of New Zealand labour organisations, either direotly or through the British delegation, at all future international . labour conferences held under tho auspices of the League of Nations. The Prime Minister said it would cost a very large sum of money to send a delegation from this country. There was another fact to be considered, and that was that New Zealand led the world in labour legislation and that other countries had nothing to teach it, He thought that representation through the British delegation might be arranged. It would save expense.