THE ESTIMATES.

New Zealand Times, Volume LXXI, Issue 4130, 18 August 1900, Page 5

THE ESTIMATES.

ALLOCATION OF I'CBLIC MONEY. Tim Consolidated Estimates for 190019UX were laid oil the tabic of the House yesterday. Appended are some of tue principal item* :—- The RegEtraf of Bulbs. etc., at Wellington, is raised from £2OO £225. The, sum cf £IOOO is put down for the cost ol taking the census in 1901. The salary Of the Agent-General is raised from £1250 to CTSCU. The salary of the Government Printer is raised from £460 t'o £4BO, and the total vote ol the Printing Office is increased from £21.6'/3 to £25,151. The salary of the Undcr-Svcretary, Colonial Secretary’s Department, *is raised from £450 to_£47s. In the miscellaneous services votes of the Colonial Secretary’s Department appear the following items ; —Advance to Cook Islands Government for the purchase of an auxiliary oil-engine schooner, £5(1011; contribution to Wellington City Council towards repair.; to truckle street, £25; contribution to Indian Famine Relief Fund, £50(31); contribution to Ottawa Fire Relief Fund, .£5134; fconipipisaliou to it. Hackworth, AgentGeneral’s office, cm retirement from .service, £681; compensation to J. Huett on retirement, £611); cost of eckbratidus in connection with war in South Africa, including proposed peace celebrations, £6CO ; expenses under the Public Health Act, 1876, including bubonic plague prevention, £5300, . . COLONIAL TREASURER’S DEPART- . MEET. The salary of the Secretary to tire Treasury .is increased from £7OO. to £750, and that of the accountant to the Treasury from £SOO ‘to £525. Tho sum required for old age pensions, forfeited and accrued instalments, is increased from £2OO to £SOO. Tho item “• contingencies ” is increased from £SO to £3OO. Under the heading “Treasury, miscellaneous services,” appears the item “discount on auk of 3 per cent, inscribed stock. £2126.” JUSTICE DEPARTMENT. The salary of tho Deputy-Registrar at the Wellington Supreme Court is raised from £220 to‘£23o. ■Tiro .dork to tiro- Official Assignee at Wellington gets an increase- from. £io to £1.70: ' Tho .salary of the; clerk at the Wanganui 'Magistra te’s Court is raised from £BS to £lO5, and that of the clerk at Palmerston' North from - £2lO To £220. The salary ,of the Uuilcr-Sccrctary, Office ,of Industries ahu Commerce, is put down at £l5O, and the sum ■of £IO6O appears as a vote for {.lie promotion of the sale cf New Zealand produc'd in. the United -Kingdom and outside markets. POST AND TELEGRAPH DEPARTMENT. The tofai vote for this -di pnrlmont is increased from £395.095 to £407,2/1). The subsidy to the San Francisco service is increased from £22,500 to £24,000, and that tu tho Such services from £-1650 to £5200. The vote for the Wellington .and Pylorus Sound service is. increase# from £2OO to £350. CUSTOMS AND MARINE DEPARTMENT. The vote for quarantine contingencies is’ increased from £IOO to £BOO, and that for superintendents of mercantile marine at the lour centres is increased from £833 to £IOOO. The vote for experimental trawling is increased from £3OO to £BOO, and there is an item of £IOOO for new lighthouse dwellings at Farewell Spit, and a vote of a’similar amount for Admiralty .survey, New Zealand coast. ■ The vote for Government steamers, working expenses within or outside the coloiiy, is £16,000, and there is an item of £BOO for repairs’ ta the Hluemoa';. STAMP AND ■ DEEDS - 'DEPARTMENT. A vote of £750 appears for printing inks, and one of £3OO fur perforating machines. ' - EDUCATION DEPARTMENT. The grants for public schools, on a £3 fas- basis, is put down at £389,750, tiro same as last year. Tho vote for re-building and furnishing of schools destroyed by fire is, increased from'£lß2/ to'£6l7i). There are also votes of £IOO for allowances for warming:schools, and of £BSO for technical schools and. classes. The vote for technical instruction, in industrial schools is increased from £IOO (o----£250. Tho vote for manual and technical instruction is £2IOO, tho same as last year. 1 ■. , Under miscellaneous appears a vote of £ISOO as a subsidy towards flags for public -schools. The salary of the resident medical atr temlant at . the ’Wellington Asylum is raised from £SOO to £325, and a vote of £250 appears: for--an • assistant; medical officer at Porirua. The voto for inebriates’ homes is increased from £IOOO to £3OOO, and there is. also a vote of £IO,OOO for industrial schools and orphanages. DEPARTMENT OF LABOUR. ' Tho salary of tho secretary is increased from £4lO to £430. and that of the chief clerk from* £3lO to £335. MINES DEPARTMENT.

The salary of the inspecting engineer is raised from £450 to £475. The sum of £SOO is put down for extinguishing' the fire in the Cardiff, coal mine. ' DEPARTMENT AGRICULTURE. The-salary-of the .Produce Commissioner, England,''has been raised from £250 to £3OO. A new veto is £3OOO for an experimental station, - Levin, but this was formerly the State farm under the Department of Labour, . • Cool, storage for dairy' produce is reduced from £.SOOO (£10,739 expended).to £SOOO, and grading dairy produce is raised from £I7OO (£2044 expended) to £2300. ■WORDING' BAILWAId DEPART- ; r.IK.NT'. /v, considenyblo increase in expendt.turc is proposed in 1 his department, the total vote-asked for being £1,046,000, as against £1,026,728DEFENCE Dl, OAK 1 i’i ENT.

The office fend 'licad'iJia are increased in numbers. The Chdcr-Sec-rctary is to receive an increase o! £25 in salary. The following hew appointments to the headquarters- stuff arc provided for:-—AssisliiiUi-staff two staff adjutants (six months): engineer staff officer (six inont •'cominar.daufc of school of instruction (six months), .two 'non-commissioned omeens for School _of Instruction (six :iionibsl, : siaff -officer for .mounted duties: staff sergeant-major, and shorthand ami ' typewriter. J'/’J' Ne,.t Service company.. Permanent airitia;’ ; ti-5.pC-1- ■is' ashod. ris against £24.,001, and for No.: 2 Service Company .CIO,Oft). as : aEa.in.st;£32s2, the number of men 1.-o----iur iiu: r e:i-«-d. : T/n.-Orr :he sub-heading -'oi cor eber/f".£t'o/ito is rev clown for .camtation -allowance. eft against £IB,OOO ■i£II.VOS expended) in ISWI-1900. Prizes for rifie-fhooHng, cte. ■. arc increased from ClOC'd (=~l< 2 expended) toX'1500; rent, purchase, repair, “‘r.. of rjfieranges. frcnir £‘looo : ,tq id'dOO; railway fares' " for. • Vidcfcncc- forces, ■ from £3OOO to £2OOO ; and volunteer encampmcntis, frenv i’ ll (Oil to £SOOO, The gum of - £9-s,ooo';is.ee* ■■down for salrrhbe"-. c::r if -’; r cr. and ecu’ mycm lev of. transport r ' r of; the

South Africa contingent, as against £83,000 (£57,064 expended) _ last year. Among miscellaneous services, £I4,UL»u is asked for the purchase’of vessels -tor submarine mining, as against £OOOO, ana for the purchase of small-anus arnttiuni' tion £20,000. as against £14,000 (04589 expended), while the' increase for volunteer camps of instruction is from £4OOO to £SOOO- A new Item is, £lllOO for a school-of instruction and expenses of outdoor tactical exercises. .ACCIDENT JNsil H ANTE. - The vote of ,(.‘SOOO, unexpended last year, for preliminary expense,; and contingencies, Government Accident Insurance Account; is again set down, with, in addition. £iuo for the Commissioner, who also gets, £BOO as Life Insurance Commissioner.