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