SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATES.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 5733, 31 October 1905, Page 5

SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATES.

PARLIAMENTARY GRANTS. INCREASES AXD GRATUITIES. The Supplementary Estimates were submitted to Parliament last night by the Colonial Treasurer. LEGISLATIVE DEPARTMENTS. Following increases are made:—Clerk of Parliaments (£000) £SO, clerk-assist-ant (£-103) £25, Acting-Speaker (Hon E. H. J. Ecoves) £25. House of Representatives—Speaker (£600), sessional allowance £'2oo; Chairman of Committees (£-100), 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 E. M. Houston, -Vi.H.E., for special services rendered as chairman of .Native Affairs Committee for a lengthened period, £IOO. Uuief librarian (£100). £25, _ duet 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 tho Auditor-General into petition of J. B. Heywood and others, £25; expenses of Parliamentary inquiry into working of Soddonvillc 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) £4OJ, preparation of and placing people on tire rolls £6000; Audit Department, increases totalling £64 to various clerks ; Registrar-General's department, increases totalling £2o to two clerks; High Commissioner’s Department, secretary (£700) increase of £SO, clerks and messengers (additional) £550, Museum and Meteorological Department, meteorological instruments (additional) £2SU, printing museum bulletins £IOO, contingencies (additional) £IOO. Miscellaneous services.—Aid to acclimatisation societies £300; allowance lor injuries received, registrar of electors, Patca, £100; art galleries (subsidies £1 for £1) —Auckland £SOO, Canterbury £3OO, Dunedin £SOO, Wellington £500; assistance to P. Foley, to enable him to return to Ireland, £18; battleship Now 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, £150; 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 niado hy Mr F. M. B. Fisher, M.H.R., £.500; lor sums paid during tho year 1904-5 to Alfred Andrews, for as temporary clerk, in excess of tho limit fixed by tho Pensions Act. 188-1, £2B; Fire Brigades’ Annual Conference, 1905 (additional), £100; gratuity to Sam Batt on retirement from public service, £100; Fairfield Thompson, refund of Supremo Court expenses, £300; hand-book on trout-fishing, £100; Imperial Institute expenses, £120; Pacific cable (New Zealand’s portion of estimated deficiency), £8428; pension to tho 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 £D, £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 diseases hospitals—Auckland £2OOO, Wellington £2OOO, Christchurch £3OOO, Invercargill £1000" Waihi £SOO, Palmerston North £IOOO, Timaru £IO3O, Grey town £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), £26,000; subsidy South African steamer service, £oooo. Tourist and Health Grant to Moau River Trust, £100; importation and distribution of game and fish, £BOO. COLONIAL TREASURY. Cashier (£3oo)' 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 (£576), increase £25 -"Translator (£300), £10; Deputy-Registrar of Patents (£300), £10; Deputy District Judge, £750; Maori Land Councils’ administration, £20,000. CUSTOMS. Hold. Office.—Three clerks, increases of £lO each. clerk (£260), £10; three landing waiters, increase £lO each; tide surveyor (£200) £10; clerks, £2O, £2O, £35 increases respectively; two lockers, £2O increase each. Compassionate allowance to Mrs Annie Day on account of services rendered by her late husband in the department, £100; refund of duty on statue of lat© Hon W. Rolleston, £309; refund of duty on statue of Queen Victoria (Wellington), £330: refund of duty on cup subscribed to for competition amongst New Zealand cheese-

makers. £l4; refund of duty on machinery for making paper bags, £4O; refund of duty on altar-cloth presented by Grand Duchess of Mecklenburg to Upper Moutcro 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. Hlnemoa (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-five tons metal, £B9O. EDUCATION. Inspector - General (£650). £SO incroa~e; chief clerk (£385), £ls; two clerks, £ls each. Grants to Education Boards.—Teach-

er.N salaries, additional, .CSOOO; coloured prints of native birds for public schools. £500; capitation secondary schools and colleges (.additional!.. £IOOO. District High Schools, salaries of teachers, £-1.000; technical instruction, capitation (additional) £2500, training of teacher - (ulditional) £G2S ; Public Sciionl Cadets, training camps (half-cost) £IOOO, special grant to school cadet corps £200; Native Deserves Trusts Commission, £lOlO ; compensation to D. limit for less of otiice, £525. Grants to university colleges for specialisation, January Ist, 1906, to March 31st, 19C6, Auckland, Wellington, Canterbury, and Otago, £125 additional to £SOO each ; grants to Education Hoards for rehu’iding schools destroyed hy fire (additional), £5000; Dannevirko High School (grant for buildings), £I3OO. MENTAL HOSPITALS AND CHARITABLE. Gratuity to widow of la to J. Cook, attendant Mount View Mental Hospital, £105; grant for refuge work (additional), £500; furnishing Maternity Home connected with Otago University, £SOO. LABOUR. Inoroasos to salaries of inspectors at 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 mineral manure*, £500; bonuses or advances to assist fruit-canning factories (additional), £1000; bonus for an improved method of preparing Now Zealand hemp and utilising the waste products, £2000; bonus for liest means of destroying small birds, £‘2so; compassionate allowance to the widow of the late A. G. Howard, assistant meat inspector, £SO; compassionate allowance to N. Kensington, late overseer in charge of experimental station at AVaeronga, on retirement, £140; contribution cost of printing proceedings of the Agricultural and Pastoral Conference, held at Wellington, 1903, £SO; contribution towards cost of printing proceedings of the Dairy Conference - held at Palmerston North during June, 1905, £2O; experimental stud and fruit far ns, wording expenses, buildings, and purchase of stock (additional), Bickerstaffe £SOO, Levin (AVcra.roa) £2OO, Momohaki £3OO, Ruakura (Waikato) £2OO, sundry small experimental stations, etc., £2OO, Waerenga £2OO, Arataki (To Mata), establishing and maintaining vineyard and erection of buildings £200; expenses, inspection of New Zealand dairy produce on arrival in United Kingdom, £250: expenses, fostering bee industry, £100; expenses in connection with demonstrations in fruit culture, etc., £100; expenses in connection with Veterinary Laboratory, Wallacevillo (additional), £400; 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, £123; potato-spraying demonstrations 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. AVellington-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 Sbochyn, tor injuries 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) inI creaso 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 tvklow of tho late Gunner. Palmer, killed by gun-explosion at Fort Ballance, 2nd .November, 1904, £7-1; compassionate allowance to tho widow of tho late Gunner Palmer, killed by gun-explosion at Fort Ballance, £300; ' compassion ate allowances to gunners injured by tho gun-explosion at Fort Ballance, £200; naval training-ship s.s. 'Sparrow (additional), £1000; passages from Capetown, South Africa, to Now Zealand of three distressed ex-troopers of New Zealand contingents, £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 (£283), 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 tkl per diem (six months), £3lO ; lodging-allow-anoe to married men of over twelve months’ service who are unprovided with quarters (thirty-one constables at Is per diem), (six months), £283; travel-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 cx-Oon-stable Juriss, £43; refund of legal expenses to—J. Howley £35, W. Gibson £35, H. H. Wilson £IOO. LANDS AND SUB.VEY. 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 ot settlement, forest, and flax lands, £2500; assistance to E. Liddicoat, Mangaweka village settlement, to remove bouse owing to slip, £9O; clearing, fencing, and sowing 1002 acres of reserve on Bimutaka Banges, along WellingtonNapier railway, £783; erection ot riverprotective works to protect adjoining lands (including supply of wive to settlers), £500; expenses of Boyal 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.. £lO increase each. STATE FORESTS. Diimgrco plantation (additional), £700; Kurow nursery (establishment and purchase of lands and buildings), £900; management and contingent expenses of State forests (standing tinv. her), £2000: Puhipulii plantation, £1900; Rotorua nursery (additional), £1000; Starborough nursery, £1575; Whakarewarewa plantation (additional), £ISOO. PUBLIC TRUST. Deputy Public Trustee (£100) increase of £2O, 'inspector and Superintendent of Agencies (£350) £25. GENERAL. Government Life Insurance Department—Supervisor of messengers, £SO increase; accountant (£430) £ls, clerk (£250) £ls. State Fire Insurance.—Board fees for unofficial members, £2OO. Public Works, departmental.—Clerk (£275), increase £10; compensation (or loss of office to J. M. Campbell, £IOO. Railway construction. —Sentry _ Hill to New Plymouth railway deviation, £IO,OOO. Public buildings—Parliament Build-. ing«, 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.—Wallacevillo Laboratory (additional), £350. Harbour defences (additional), £SOOO. Advances to companies for development of mining, £1(5,000. Wireless telegraphy (on account of £7000), £2OOO. ..... - Contingent defence (additional), £12,550. _ , . Purchase of lauds, Horowhenua Lake, £SOO. Hurt Railway and Road Improvement.—Additional amount required aa per Hurt Railway and Road Improvement Act, 1905, £50,000. Auckland—Penrose railway duplication £IO,OOO ; Mosgiel-Duiiodiu duplication', £IO,OOO.