UNUSUALLY SMALL

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 17957, 8 December 1932, Page 7

UNUSUALLY SMALL

SUPPLEMENTARY VOTES NO OUTSTANDING ITEMS £59,347 FOR PUBLIC WORKS (Parliamentary Reporter.) WELLINGTON, this day. The supplementary estimates submitted to the House of Representatives yesterday are for the unusually small total of £133,510. * Tiie largest item is £57,910 for the Department of Agriculture, but £42,305 of this amount is to rectify an error ol the main estimates, which allowed tins department too high a credit in aid. The Public Works votes total £t>9,347. There is an item of £SOO for addition expenses of delegates to the Disarmament Conference, r 932. Ail amount £2666 is provided to cover misappropriations from the High Commissioner’s Office, London. The cost of the recent visit by Sir Apirana Ngata to Cook Islands is set down at £lO2.

A grant of £365 is made to the widow ot' the late Air. G. C. C. Black, iM.lh An additional sum. of £lB is granted to the widow of the late .Mr. T. Alakitanara, M.P. Addition expenses of the Ottawa Conference delegation are set down at £4EO.

In the vote of the External Affairs Department, there is an item' of £448 to meet damages and costs awarded against the New Zealand reparation estates by the High Court of Western Samoa: • EXPENSES OF RIOTING

The Labor Department estimates include a vote of £534 to cover salaries of additional conciliation commissioners appointed under the Amendment Act, 1932.

The sum of £3OO is provided to defray the cost of by-elections, and there is an additional £SO to meet the expenses of the. general election. Additional. expenses of mortgagors relief commissions are shown at £SOOO. An additional sum of £650 is voted to the Police Department for expenses in connection with street riots and disorder.

Provision is made for the; expenditure of £550 on the repair of earthquake damage in Wniroa.. The Department of Lands and Survey votes include £SCO for compensation for land taken in connection with the Waitangi reserve, and a further £250 for the renovation of buildings and fences. There is a vote of £IO,OOO additional for the carriage of lime for bona fide farmers and £SOOO additional for subsidies to manufacturers of superphosphate. A further £32,0(}0 is voted for subsidies to hospital boards. Provision is made for £70,000 for the purchase of milling wheat in Australia, but it is estimated that this amount will be returned to the Crown.

PAYMENT OF EXCHANGE

An additional £llOO is included in the Mines Department vote as a bounty to the Onakaka Iron and Steel Company, Limited.

The sum of £1358 is provided for the Post Office on account of additional interest payable to the New Zealand Radio Jlroadcasting Company on radio license ices not paid over. The cost in connection with the establishment of State Advances commission agencies is shown as £I7BO. The Post and Telegraph Department requires £29,794 to make retrospective the payment of exchange on Imperial pensions paid in New Zealand from January 1, 1930, to December 31. 1931. Another exchange expense is £8125 incurred on remitting £19,937 from London to New York in payment of interest on New Zealand consolidated stock.

Items: of interest from the unauthorised expenditure account include the expenses of the comptroller of customs on the delegation to Honolulu in connection with the New Zealand-Cnnadian trade treaty. £240: expenses of the Minister of Customs and party to Honolulu, £617: potatoes supplied to indigent natives, £635.