NATIONAL EXPENDITURE

Patea Mail, Volume LIII, 14 March 1932, Page 4

NATIONAL EXPENDITURE

THE COMMLSSIONION’S REPORT,

DRASTIC ECONOMIES SUGGESTED

The following are the savings to be effected in the national expenditure, as recommended by the commission recently set up: —

PERMANENT APPROPRIATIONS. Civil List Act, 1920, native purposes, estimated saving £7OOO. Debt services, operation of Hoover moratorium, £150,000. Hospital and Charitable Institutions' Act, 1926, subsidies on voluntary bequests, £15,000. Education grants and subsidies on voluntary bequests, £6OOO. Subsidy, Jubilee Institute for the Blind, £2500. University bursaries, £9OOO. Workers' extension lectures, £IBOO. Subsidies and allowances, National Provident Fund: Subsidies on contributions £SOO, maternity allowances to contributors £7OOO, maternity allowances to friendly societies £36,500, total £-11,000. Finance Act, 1925, general expenses, Now Zealand Institute, £350. Fire Brigades' Act, 1926, subsidies, £3192.

Rotorua Borough Act, 1922, payment portion bath fees, £ll7O. Pensions: Family Allowances Act, 1926, £121,000; Pensions Act, 1926, miners' 1 pensions £6200, miners' widows ' pensions £6000; Military pensions, Maori War, £1225; widows' pensions, £95,000; old ago pensions, £200,000; war pensions, economic £90,000, dependants' pensions £15,000, double pensions £30,000, epidemic pensions (pensions vote) £5500, total £599,825. Motor taxation, £500,000.

Finance Act, 1929, advances to Native Land Settlement Account for loans to natives, £BSOO. Appropriation Act, 1925, maintenance of overseas war graves’, £15,375. Slaughtering and Inspection Act, 1908, compensation for diseased stock, £29,500. Public Eevenues Act, 1926, Fire Insurance Fund, £IO,OOO.

Native Land Amendment and Native Land Claims Adjustment ’Act, 1928, £3610.

Public Eevenues Act, 1926, postage stamps to members of both Houses, £2200.

Salaries and wages, direct saving to Consolidated Fund £540,000, indirect saving through Eailways and Post and Telegraph Department £624,000, total £1,164,000.

Annual appropriations, Legislative Department £32,890, education £369,950, total £402,840. Total estimated saving, £2,976,262.