SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATES.
The Supplementary. Estimates were circulated last Friday. The amounts of the various votes are as follow : - Services chargeable on the consolidated fund : Ordinary revenue account, £36,'823 ; land fund account, £6154. Services chargeable •on the public works fund, £51,285. Unauthorised expenditure account, £44,246 9s Sd. The principal goncral items are as follow : To defray the expenses of the Governor entertaining during the Exhibition in Dunedin, £IOOO ; advance to New Plymouth Harbour Board, to be received, £2200; supply of materials, etc., for prison labour on f >rtitica. tions, hitherto charged on loan, £IO,OOO ; intercolonial rifle competition, £IOOO ; pur chase of copyright and stock on hand of “ New Zealand Justices cf the Peace ” and “ Reports of Court of Appeal,” by the late Mr Justice Johnston,' £300; repair to Cook Strait cable, £924; San Fraucisco mail service, 10 voyages at the rate of £11,250 per annum, £4326 ; iuterproviuciai service, £SOO ; refund of duty paid at new tariff rates, £712; protection of fish and oysters, £300; collecting and preparing mineralexhibits for Dunedin Exhibition, £200; repairs to the Uovernmenfc House, Auckland, £500; to Government houße, Wellington, £300; sanitary improvements departmental buildings, £SOO ; do Parliamentary buildings, £250; expenses in detection of sly grog selling, £200 •/ expenses in removing the Agnew family toNaseby, £2O; dairy instructor, including travelling expenses, £400; immigration of separated families and relatives, £IOOO. ... . Among the items of special interest in Wellington are these :—Compensation to D. M. Coll, Assistant Librarian, £lO7 ; Manswatu Gorge road maintenance, £6OO ; advance to the Wellington and Wairarapa Charitable Aid Board, to be re • covered, £9OO ; repairs to Cook Strait cable, £924 ; wages to Eugene McCarthy, (in connection . with the “ Hannah Mohau,”) £54 ; road, Oroua Rivei, £3OO ; Mauriceville West (additional), £300; remission of penalties imposed on printing office contract (as proposed by Petition Committee), £3OO ; Hunterville to Taurangarere road, £IOOO ; refund of duty to J. Magiunity, £7 ; ditto to T. W, Young, £ll 14s ; refund to Mr A. D. Riley of expenses in visiting Australia reporting on technical education, £27 ISs ; compensation to members of the Permanent Militia, Wellington, whose services were dispensed with, £J27 15s.
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New Zealand Mail, Issue 916, 20 September 1889, Page 24
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