THE YEAR’S ESTIMATES

New Zealand Times, Volume LII, Issue 12200, 27 July 1925, Page 8

THE YEAR’S ESTIMATES

TOTAI TWENTY-NINE MILLIONS HARKED RISE ON LAST YEAR’S Z FIGURES A RAPID ANALYSIS' The total of the estimated expenditure for the ensuing year is £29,024,616, as against £27,376,673 last ydkr. The details of the amounts for edit department-follotr, the totals in parentheses representing the expenditure in 1924-25: Permanent Appropriations. Civil list, £29,800 (£29,781); interest, £6,049,164 (£7,860,262); sinking fund. £686,992 (£690,076); * reduction of funded debt, £332,845 (£307,306); under special Acts of the Legislature, £3,721,323 (£3,746,086). Total, £12,82fe124 (£12,638,511). ' Annual Appropriations.—Vote, Legislative Departments, £62,560 (£62,1091; Treasury Department, £35,456 (£51,958) ; Land and Income Tax Department, £68,668 (£50,406) - Stamp Duties Department, £93,767 (£85,905); National Provident-and Friendly Societies Department, £22,751 (£22,430); working railways. £6,200,391 (£5,636,583) ; ■ Post and Telegraph working expenses, £2.478,938 public buildings, £114,013 (£107,086); Government and other domains, £6730 , (£5786); ; maintenance and repairs to roads, £120,000 (£36,337); maintenance of irrigation works, £7OOO (£2226); Native Department, £33,069 (£27,996): Department of Internal Affaire, £24,865 (£40,601); Cook Islands, £32,504 (£21,386); Department of Industries and Commerce, £87,059 (£114,161); Department of Justice; £139,782 (£l3l, . 217); Prisons Department, £79.600 ! (£76,366); Crown Law Office, £5619 ■ (£5535); Polioe Department, £415,939 (£899,289); Pensions Department, £193,540 (£94,448); Mines Department ! £4*1.562 (£38.028); Department of InI teams I Affairs, £318.285 (£305,640); Audit Department, £27,967 (£23,368); i Public Service . Commissioner’s Office, £7861 (£6058); Printing and Stationery Department, £205,322 (£204,268); Mental" Hospitals Department, £280,851 (£244,331); Department of Health, £248,035 (£229,032); naval defence. £444,215 (£283,356); Defence Department, £412,875 (£370,906);' Customs Department, £152,594 (£156,188); Marine Department, £124,276 (£119,463); Department of -Labour, £50,213 (£45,472); Department of Lands and Survey, £174,018 (£168,442); scenery preservation,.. £21,092 (£2981); Valuation 'Department, £51,083 (£49,349); Electoral Department, £97,119 (£7334); Department of Agriculture, £368,297 (£255,125); Department of Tourist and Health Resorts, £68,888 (£66,294): Department of Education, £2,863,869 (£2,777,271). Total, £16,204,492 (£14,738,162). Total—Ordinary Revenue Account, £29,024,616 (£27,376,673). * ITEMS OP INTEREST Individual items of interest appear below, the (expenditure for last year appearing in parentheses. New Zealand’s proportion of expenses of* the Imperial, War Graves Commission, and construction and maintenance in connection with it, are estimated -to be £28,000. New Zealand war graves and memorials are set down at £5637 (£1609). The sum of £9OOO appears for a grant to the Maternity Hospital at (Hastings: The; name of;, the Motheraraft Home, at Wellington/ appears for £750. The'Otaki Hospital and Sanatorium receives, £4500 (£4333). For . a St. Helens Hospital, at Wellington, the' sum of £3IOO (£2656) appears. A similar home at Wanganui receives (21000 (£1078). The sum of £19,400 (£236) is asked, for the purchase of aircraft. » t The Tongariro National Park Board receives £270 (£250). Improvements to the Wanganui river are to cost £2500. A total, of £42,000 is set down Tor expenditure on agricultural education. A bonus for the extermination of blackberry totals £IO,OOO. For the Stratford Model Dairy Farm the sum of £370 is allow.ed (£404). . The guarantee on shipments of frnit is £3OOO (£10,484). The snbmdy to a dairy laboratory in. Taranaki.<is represented by £IOOO. The.'sum of £2500 is set down for. agricultural instruction. For work on the Milford Sound track a total of £3IOO is allowed (£3119f). .. WELL OVER A MILLION -Teachers’ salaries total £1,690,000 (£1,640,074), and £44,000 (£45,014) is 1 allowed fdi conveyance of children to i schools'and hoard allowance.

Secondary schools and colleges are to receive I £200,000 (£188,209). Allowances to students of training colleges are £128,000 (£133,578). Maintenance and repairs to school buildings are £lll,OOO (£109,354). The'.stun, of £35,000 is down for the Wellington coal depot (£16,414.. For general afforestation the sum of £107,150 (£51,502) is set down. The Wellington forest plantation project-has opposite it the snm Of £1375.; ' £4300 ’is allowed on account for State* Fire Insurance offices in Wellington (£1986). “Reward to informer, £20,” is one of the items under the heading of the Land and Income Tax Department. This waa for supplying information which led to the recovery of income tax. A total of £628.000 (£525,000) is asked to be set aside for maintenance of North Island railway Hnes and brandies. For South Island lines a vote of £547,000 (£481,547) is asked. Locomotive running and repairs receive an allowance of £1,429,800 (£1,390,745) in the North Island and £989,800 (£953,034) in the South. Traffic- expenses are estimated to be £814,000 (£809,969) in the North Island and £707,150 (£702,840) in the South. A PAST COMMISSION The Commission of Inquiry into the working of New Zealand railways cost the country £8595. The Post and Telegraph Departworking expenses at Wellington (aa distinct from salaries) is set down at. £15,000 (£15,985). The Feilding Kowhai Park authorities are down to. receive £IOO for purchase 'of-land. New Zealand’s contribution to the League of Nations, £9057; the sum of £SOO for the expenses of a delegate to be sent to Geneva, and £SO for New Zealand official publications

supplied to the League constitute a total of £§6o7 (£11,624). ' The estimate for the N.Z. Government steamer Hiriemoa is £10,500 for working expenses and £6500 for reconditioning. •The maintenance an<) running- expenses of -, a refrigeration cabinet in .the High Commissioner's office in London provide £SO for the Department of Industries and Commerce to find. For the Supreme Court a vote of £12,503 is needed for salaries, and for the Magistrate’s Court-£51,031. The Department of Justice does not incur law costs frequently, but the sum of £SO is set down for them (£l7).

Jurors drew £5334 last year, and the vote asked is £3500 for the ensuing twelve months. Witnesses’ expenses are estimated at £BSOO (£8364). A total of £l5O (£116) is down to provide prisoners with counsel. S Last year the Mines Department subscribed £1 2s lOd to the Hawaiian Volcano Research Association. The sum of £3O is set down for the preservation of aboriginal rock paintings. GOVERNMENT AS HOST Official functions and entertainment of visitors to the Dominion is estimated to cost £IOOO (£3482). It is not expected that the number of distinguished visitors this year will equal those of last year. Last year’s vote, of £7200 for the recreation of mental patients has been increased by £SOO, as more attention is being paid to the welfare of patients. The inquiry into the Kelvin Maternity Hpme cost £946. Pay *gnd allowances to the officere and ships’ companies of the Dominion’s fleet and administrative staff total £191,000. The sum of £650 is allocated for pub-' lieation of the New Zealand Nautical Almanac (£696). Fpr the licensing poll the sum of £12,000 appears on the Electoral Department’s estimffie.. -- There is £750- set down for destruction of the kea (£729) and £250 for destruction of wild pigs (£190). Control of cattle tick receives £2150 (£834).