DETAILS O F ENTRENCHMENT.
The Estimates, which were circulated on Tuesday afternoon,show that the total services chargeable on the Consolidated Fund for the current year are £4,063,671, as against £4,241,608 last year. The Civil list amountß to £26,300, as agairist £27,534 expended last year. Following are particulars of the principal reductions made : —Legislative departments : Clerk assistant, Legislative Council, from £350 to £300; second clerk assistant, House, from - £450 to. £4OO ; sergeant-at-arms, from . £250 to £2OO ; reader, from £225 to £l5O ; record clerk, from £250 to £225 ; interpreters, from £450 to £225 ; Committee reporters, from £450 to £3OO ; assistant librarian, from £250 to £225 ; cubtodiaD, from £275 to £250. Colonial Secretary’s Department'; Under-Secretary, from £BOO to £750 ; office keepers, from £2OO to £llO ; chief clerk, Audit office, from £450 to £400; clerks, from £3882 to £3125; Registrar-General, from £550 to £SOO ; chief olerk, from £320 to £300; registrars of births and deaths at Auckland and Wellington, from £250.-to £225 AgentGeneral’s staff in London, from £2075 to £lß7l ; Resident Aledical Superintendent Wellington Luuatio Asylum, from £SOO to £IOO ; matron, from £IOO to £9O ; and clerk and storekeeper, from £2OO to £7O; Government Printer, from £SOO to £450. Treasury and Revenue Department : Secretary to tho Treasury, from £BOO to £750 ; assistant secretary, from £550 to £SOO ; corresponding clerk f from £330 to £300;
cashier, froon £325 to £3OO ; deputy registrar Supreme Court, Wellington, from £215 (six months) to £ll3 ; registrar, Napier, from £3OO to £2SO ; registrar, Dunedin, from £156 to £450 ; registrar, Invercargill, from £250 to £SO; five clerks to Judges, from £l5O to £IOO each ; Official Assignees, Auckland, Wellington and Dunedin, from £550 to £475 ; Resident Magistrates, Auck- ! land, Dunedin, aud Christchurch, from ' £6OO to £550; Resident Alagistrates, Oarnaru, Naseby, aud Lawrence, from £530 to £475 ; District Judge, South Island (Nelson), from £675 to £SOO. Post and Telegraphs: Chief clerk, from £4OO to £375; inspector of post-offices, from £SOO to £475 ; - assistant inspector, from £475 to £425 ; chief postmasters, Auckland, Wellington, and Dunedin, from £SOO to £4OO ; Wanganui, from £425 to £4OO : chief clerks, Auckland, Wellington, and Dunedin, from £325 to £310; officers in oharge; Wellington, Auckland, Christchurch, aud Dunedin, from £370 to £350 ; Masterton telegraphist, from £250 to £235 ; travelling expenses of linemen and inspectors, from £SOOO to £4500; extra labor for material for repairs, from £10,000:to £SS27. Customs and Marine Departments—Secretary, from £SOO to £6OO ; senior clerk, from £4OO to £275 ; collectors, Auckland and Christchurch, from £6OO to £500; Wellington, from £650 to £500; landing surveyor, Wellington, from £4OO to £375; clerks, trom £SBO to ' £525 ; and lockers, from £606 to £555. Stamps and Deeds Do-partmeut—-Record clerk, from £225 to £175; stampers, from £350 to £310; distriot land registrars, Auckland, Taranaki, Wellington, Hawkes Bay, and Otago, reduced £SO each, and Canterbury £IOO. Education Department—Secretary and inspectnr-general, from £650 to £6OO ; chief clerk, from £4OO to £375 ; inspector of native schools, from £SOO to £450 ; maintenance of children in industrial schools, from£3oooto£2soo; director of school for deaf mutes, from £6OO to £SOO ; and assistants, from £607 to £SOO. Native Department (a very large number of salaries - have disappeared altogether, and tho total vote amounts to £13,347, as against £17,078 voted last year) : Chief Judge, from £SOO to £7OO ; registrars, Wanganui and Gisborne, from £275 to £240 ; judges’travelling allowances, from £ISOO to £IOOO ; payment of assessors, from £1250 to £IOOO. Aiinister of Lands’ Department : Inspector of Alines, from £325 to £3OO ; clork, from £3OO to £275 ; analyst. Geological Department, from £4OO to £375 ; assistant geologist and draftsman, £2O each ; field expenses and special surveys, from £BOO to £400; superintending inspector stock branch, from £6OO to £SOO ; four chief in3!>octors, from £1450 to £I3OO ; 32 inspectors, from £6575 to £6290 ; clerks, from £494 to £3BO. Working Railways (management) : Kawakawa, from £4OOO to £3600 ; Whang&rei, from £4IOO to £2430 ; Auckland, from £94.559 to £86,580; Napier, from £40,700 to £38,650; Wellington, from £49,200 to £45,960; Wanganui, from £65,432 to £64,910; Hurunui-Bluff, from £431,026 to £406,170 ; Nelson, from £BSOO to £8260 ; Picton, from £6500 to £6220. Public Buildings : Rent for Ministerial residences, from £BOO to £2OO. Defence Department (the votes for Commander Colonial Forces, Artillery and Engineer Staff Officer, Officer Commatrding Permanent Alilitia, amounting to £1825, are struck out, with a number of other votes), travelling expenses from £6OO to £2OO ; adjutants, Taranaki, Nelson and Dunedin, reduced £SO each ; chief clerk and accountant, police, from £4OO to £375 ; inspectors and first-class police, from £2950 to £2OOO ; ditto second-class, from £I4OO to £IOSO. Crown Lands and Survey Department—Sur-veyor-General, from £9OO to £750 ; Assistant Surveyor-General, from £7OO to £650 ; superintendent surveyor, from £6OO to £550.
A very large amount of the saving has been made in smaller salaries and in smaller reductions. The list given above, however, represents the most noticeable reductions. Following is a comparative statement of the amounts voted for the various departments for this and the previous year The figures given first represent this year’s votes Legislative Departments, £14,955 and £25,330; Colonial Secretary’s Department, £106,130 and £158,236 ; Colonial Treasurer’s Department, £48,727 and £36,968 ; Justice Department, £105,645 and £111,381 ; Postal and Telegraph Department, £269,251 and £274,657 ; Customs and Mariue Departments, £62,998 and £66,801 ; Stamps and Deeds Department, £24,911 and £26,590 ; Education Department, £348,974 and £360,709 ; Native Affairs Department, £13,347 and £17,078; Minister of Lands Department, £46,153 and £25,548 ; Working Railways Department, £690,000 and £726,117 ; Public Buildings and Domains Department, £27,050 and £48,109; Defence Department, £155,666 aud £185,979. A saving of £39,000 is calculated on by the repeal of the Crown and Native Lands Rating Act.
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New Zealand Mail, Issue 849, 8 June 1888, Page 24
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