SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATES.

New Zealand Mail, Issue 1756, 1 November 1905, Page 31

SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATES.

PARLIAMENTARY GRANTS. INCREASES AND GRATUITIES. The Supplementary Estimates were submitted to Parliament last Monday night by the Colonial Treasurer. LEGISLATIVE DEPARTMENTS. Following increases are made :—Clerk of Parliaments (£600) £SO, clerk-assist-ant (£400) £25, Acting-Speaker (Hon R. H. J. Reeves} £25. House of Representatives—Speaker (£600), sessional allowance £200; Chairman of Committees (£400), allowance £200; clerk, House of Representatives (£600), £SO; clerk-assistant (£400), £SO. Increases to salaries—Second clerk-as-sistant (£350) £25, messenger (£200) £ls, interpreter £125, grant to R. M. Houston, M.H.R., . for special services rendered as chairman of Native Affairs Committee for a lengthened period, £IOO. onief librarian (£400), £25, chief reporter, “Hansard” (£450) £25, two reporters (£300) each £25, custodian Parliament buildings (£300) £SO, extra assistance for “Hansard” £IOO, extra reporters Select Committee £1000; expenses of witnesses attending inquiry by the Auditor-General into petition of J. B. Heywood and others, £25; expenses of Parliamentary inquiry into working of Seddonville State coal mine, £100; gratuities to messengers, orderlies, library staff, .and attendants £225. COLONIAL SECRETARY’S DEPARTMENT. Chief electoral officer £450, for payment of registrars (additional) £4OO, preparation of and placing people on the rolls £6000; Audit Department, increases totalling £64 to various clerks ; Registrar-General’s department, increases totalling £25 to two clerks; High Commissioner’s Department, secretary (£750) increase of £SO, clerks and messengers (additional) £550, Museum and Meteorological Department, meteorological instruments (additional) £250, printing museum bulletins £IOO, contingencies (additional) £IOO. Miscellaneous services.—Aid to acclimatisation societies £300; allowance for injuries received, registrar of electors, Patea, £100; art galleries (subsidies £1 for £1) —Auckland £SOO, Canterbury £SOO, Dunedin £SOO, Wellington £500; assistance to P. Foley, to enable him to return to Ireland, £18; battleship New Zealand Presentation Fund Committee (grant in lieu of authority to send telegrams and letters free of charge), £25; contributions to Veterans’ Home (£1 for £1), £500; contribution to Brussels International Customs Bureau for publication of Customs tariffs, £100; cost of revising and publishing “New Zealand Flora,” £550; cost of passages of delegates attending Labour Conference, £7O; cost of binding scientific publications in New Zealand Institute Library, £200; cost of drafting bills, £450; compassionate allowance to Messenger Pennifold on retirement from Government service, £140; compassionate allowance to Mrs Jessie Brown, £100; expenses in connection with St. „ Louis Exposition. £750; expenses Royal Commission on allegations made by Mr F. M. B. Fisher, M.H.R., £500; tor sums paid during the year 1904-5 to Alfred Andrews, for services as temporary clerk, in excess of the limit fixed by the Pensions Act, 1884, £2B; Fire Brigades’ Annual Conference, 1905 (additional), £100; gratuity to Sam Batt on retirement from public service, £100; Fairfield Thompson, refund of Supreme Court expenses, £300; hand-hook on trout-fishing, £100; Imperial Institute expenses, £120; Pacific cable (New Zealand’s portion of estimated deficiency), £8428; pension to the Misses Robinson (additional), £33; subsidies to medical associations, and printing proceedings, £700; subsidy to Society for Protection of Women and Children and Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (£1 for £U S £2OO.

PUBLIC HEALTH. Grant to Wellington Hospital Trustees towards extra cost of removal of site of sanatorium for consumptives at Otaki, £1000; grant to Nurse Maude for treatment of consumptives, £200; infectious di &ea 3 es hospitals—Auckland. £2OOO, Wellington £200.5, Christchurch £3OOO, Invercargill £IOOO, Waihi £SOO, Palmerst-on North £IOOO, Timaru £IOOO, Greytown £SOO. INDUSTRIES AND COMMERCE. Resident Agent, San Francisco, £SO; expenses in connection with the Indian and Colonial Products Exhibition, Crystal Palace, £1600; grain grading (general), £500; International Exhibition, Christchurch (on account of £50,000), £25,000; subsidy South African steamer service, £SOOO. Tourist and Health— Grant to Moau River Trust, £100; importation and distribution of game and fish, £BOO. COLONIAL TREASURY. Cashier (£300) increase £2O, clerk (£345) £2O, and three others £lO each. Clerical assistance* Friendly Societies? Registry Office (additional) £SOO. JUSTICE. Under-Secretary and Registrar of Patents (£575), increase £25; Translator (£300), £10; Deputy-Registrar of intents (£300), £10; Deputy District Judge, £750; Maori Councils’ administration, £20,000. CUSTOMS. Held Office. —Three clerks, increases of £lO each. Wellington—First clerk (£2GO), £10; three landing waiters, increase £lO each; tide surveyor (£200) £10; clerks, £2O, £2O, £35 increases respectively ; two lockers, £2O increase each. ht ■ ( _ Compassionate allowance jto Mrs Annie Day on account of services rendered by her late husband in the department, £100; refund of duty on statue of late Hon W. Rolleston, £300; refund of duty on statue of Queen Victoria (Wellington), £330: refund of duty on cup subscribed to for competition amongst New Zealand cheesemakers. £l4; refund of duty on machinery for making paper hags, £4O; refund of duty on altar-cloth presented by Grand Duchess of Mecklenburg to Upper Moutere Church, £l2; refund of duty on fireworks imported for Nelson carnival, £18; refund of duty on butter imported by National Dairy Association, £ls; refund of preferential duty, certificates produced after importation, (additional), £150; refund of _ poll-tax on behalf of wife of naturalised Chinese, £IOO. MARINE. Repairs and renewals to s.s. Hinemoa (additional), £2500; working expenses s.s; Tutanekai, £1000; marine survey, £IOOO. PRINTING. Two Standard linotype machines (at £675), £1350; three double royal printing machines, at £243, £729; thirty-fiv® tons metal, £B9O. EDUCATION. Inspector - General (£650). £SO increase ; chief clerk (£385), £ls; two clerks, £ls each. Grants to Education Boards. —Teachers’ salaries, additional, £8000; coloured prints of native birds for publio schools, £500; capitation secondary schcols and colleges (additional), £IOOO. District High Schools, salaries of teachers, £4000; technical instruction, capitation (additional) £2500, training of teacher- (additional) £625; Public School Cadets, training camps (half-cost) £IOOO, special grant to school cadet corps £200; Native Reserves Trusts Commission, £1640; compensation to D. Brent for loss of office, £525. Grants to university colleges for specialisation, January Ist, 1906, to March 31st, 1906, Auckland, Wellington, . Canterbury, and Otago, £125 additional to £SOO each; grants to Education Boards for rebuilding schools destroyed by fixe (additional), £5000; Dannevirke High. School (grant for buildings), £ISOO. MENTAL HOSPITALS AND CHARITABLE. Gratuity to widow of late J. Cook, attendant Mount View Mental Hospital, £105; grant for refuge work (additional), £500; furnishing Maternity Home connected with Otago University, £SOO. LABOUR. Increases to salaries of inspectors afc Auckland, Christchurch, Dunedin, Gisborne, Wairarapa, Timaru, and Nelson, £lO each; Wellington, Palmerston North, Greymouth, Oamaru, .and Ashburton, each £5; expenses of delegates to Agricultural, Industrial, and Labour Conference, £200; expenses bureau (additional), £3OO. MINES. Geological equipment, £lsooj bonus to Under-Secretary for Mines, £SO; Otago University School of Mines (final grant), £250; purchase of native rights (Thames), £2OOO. AGRICULTURE. Analytical and Biological Laboratories (additional), £3OO ; bonus for discovery of mineial manure, £500; bonuses or advances to assist fruit-canning factories (additional), £1000; bonus for an improved method of prepai ing New Zealand liemp and utilising the waste products, £2000; bonus for best means of destroying small birds, £250; compassionate allowance to the widow of the late A. G. Howard, assistant meat iu-

apeetor, £SO; compassionate allowance to N. Kensington, late overseer in charge of experimental station at W a,e “ renga, on retirement, £140; contribution towards cost of printing proceedings of the Agricultural and Pastoral Conference, held at Wellington, 1905, £SO; contribution towards cost of print- - ing proceedings of the Dairy Conference held at Palmerston North during June, 1905, £2O; experimental stud and fruit far ns, working expenses, buildings, and purchase of stock (additional), Ricker stuffe £SOO, Levin (Wera.roa) £2OO, Momohaki £3OO, Ruakura (Waikato) £2OO, sundry small experimental stations* etc., £2OO, Waerenga £2OO, Arataki <?te Mata), establishing and maintaining vineyard and erection of buildings £2OO ; expenses, inspection of New Zealand dairy produce on arrival in United Kingdom, £250; expenses,

fostering bee industry, £105; expenses in connection with, demonstrations in fruit culture, etc., £100; expenses in connection with Veterinary Laboratory, Wallaceville (additional), £4ooj inspection of imported bones and manures (additional), £100; inspection of dairies and noxious weeds (additional), £1000; passages of dairy expert, J. Pedersen, and wife from New Zealand to London, £128; potato-spraying demonstrati ons and apparatus, £400; purchase and expenses of Angora goats (additional), £100; purchase of stud horses and cattle, and expenses (additional), £1200; seed potatoes to Maoris, £2OO. WORKING RAILWAYS. Wellington-Napier-New Plymouth section. —Traffic—'Post office cash misappropriated at Ohingaiti station, £6O; compassionate allowance to Mrs Looney, on account of her husband being accidentally killed on the Government railway line, £100; compassionate allowance to Mrs H. M. Thompson, on account of death of her husband, £150; compensation to Mr Sheehyn, for in-

juries caused by fire, £150; gratuity to (Mrs J. D. Cooper, on account of injuries received through railway accident, £l2O. DEFENCE. Head office.—Chief clerk (£275) increase of £25; stores for maintenance of guns and batteries (additional), £500; maintenance, etc., of launches (additional), £200; capitation, etc., for Defence Cadet Volunteers (additional), £465; compensation to Captain Falconer, on retirement, £100; compassionate allowance of £1 per week to the widow of the late Gunner Palmer, killed by gun-explosion at Fort Ballance, 2nd Nov embed', 1904, £74; compassionate allowance to the widow of the late Gunner Palmer, killed by gun-explosion at Fort Ballance, £300; compassionate allowances to gunners injured by the gun-explosion at Fort Ballance, £200;

naval training-ship s.s. Sparrow (additional), £1000; passages from Capetown, South Africa, to New Zealand of three distressed ex-troopers of New Zealand £22; payment of compensation and medical expenses of members of volunteer corps injured while on duty, £200; special grant to cadet corps, £2OO. POLICE. Chief clerk (£285), increase of £ls; 15 constables at 7s .per diem. £1916: increase of pay to inspectors on promotion to rank of superintendent, £55; increase of pay to four sub-inspectors on promotion to rank of inspector, £75; four additional sergeants at 10s per diem (six months), £365; extra pay to four station sergeants at Is 6d per diem, £55; fourteen additional constables at 7s per diem (six months), £894; increase of pay to two sergeantsmajor and sixty-six sergeants at 6d per diem (six months), £310; lodging-allow-ance to married men of over twelve months’ service who are unprovided with quarters (thirty-one constables at Is per diem), (six months), £283; t-ravel-

ling-expenses and transport of prisoners (additional), £250; cost of Police Commission, £268; compassionate allowance to Mrs Sarah Kennedy, in consideration of services rendered by her late husband, £94; compensation to ex-Con-stable Juriss, £43; refund of legal expenses to—J. Howley £35, W. Gibson £35, H. R. Wilson £IOO. LANDS AND SURVEY. Head office—Auditor of land revenue (£400), £ls increase; examiner of titles, Wellington (£350), £2O; chief clerk, Wellington (£330), £10; receiver of land revenue (£290), £2O; inspection, management, etc., expenses of settlement, forest, and flax lands, £2500; assistance to E. Liddicoat, Mangaweka village settlement, to remove house owing to slip, • £9O; clearing, fencing, and sowing 1062 acres of reserve on Rimutaka Ranges, along Wellington-

Napier railway, £783; erection of riverprotective works to protect adjoining lands (including supply of wire to settlers), £500; expenses of Royal Commission on land tenure of colony (additional), £8000; expenses under Workers’ Dwellings Act (ordinary Crown lands portion), £10,000; Landless Native Commission, remuneration to Commissioners S. Percy Smith and A. Mackay, £IOO each; Wanganui river improvements (additional), £IOOO. VALUATION. Officers in charge at Auckland, Wellington, Christchurch, and Invercargill, £3s increase each. STATE FORESTS. Dumgree plantation (additional), £700; Kurow nursery (establishment and purchase of lands and buildings), £900; management and contingent expenses of State forests (standing timber), £2000; Puhipuhi plantation, £1900; Rotorua nursery (additional), £1000; Starborough nursery, £1575; Whakarewarewa plantation (additional), £ISOO.

PUBLIC TRUST. Deputy Public Trustee (£400) increase of £2O, Inspector and Superintendent of Agencies (£350) £25. GENERAL. Government Life Insurance Department —Supervisor of messengers, £s® increase; accountant (£430) £ls, clerk (£250) £ls. State Fire Insurance.—Board fees for unofficial members, £2OO. Public Works, departmental.—Clerk (£275), increase £10; compensation for loss of office to J. M. Campbell, £IOO. Railway construction. —Sentry Hill to New Plymouth railway deviation, £IO,OOO. Public buildings.—Parliament Buildings, cottage for custodian, £300; Departmental Buildings (Wellington), £4OO. Courthouses. —Wellington (library),

£250. Gaols—Wellington, two warders’ cottages, £SOO. Police stations. —Bulls (renovations), £Bs.' Postal and Telegraph.—Wharf for steamer Iris, Auckland (on account £6000), £IOOO. Industrial schools. —Levin, buildings, water supply etc. (additional), £2300. Agricultural.—Wallaceville Laboratory (additional), £350. Harbour defences (additional), £SOOO. Advances to companies for development of mining, £IO,OOO. Wireless telegraphy (on account of £7000), £2OOO. , Contingent defence (additional), £l2 550. Purchase of lands, Horowlienua Lake, £SOO. Hutt Railway and Road Improvement. —Additional amount required as per Hutt lla ilway and Road Improvement Act, 1905, £50,000. Auckland. —Penrose railway duplication £10.000; Mosgiel-Dunedin duplication, £IO,OOO