OVER THE ESTIMATES

Southland Times, Issue 22203, 21 December 1933, Page 5

OVER THE ESTIMATES

EXTRA EXPENDITURE AUTHORIZED. (From Our Parliamentary Reporter.) Wellington, December 20. Every item of expenditure for which there is no authority in last year’s Estimates is detailed in the Unauthorized Expenditure Account which was presented to the House to-night. It shows that the amount spent under this heading was £159,558. Expenses incurred in connection with the exchange of Australian silver coin for the English mintage were £1772. It cost £2956 for the visit of Mr W. Downie Stewart and the Secretary of the Treasury, Mr A. D. Park, to London last year. The electric supply account paid £27,500 as half the cost of compensation, shared with the Auckland Electric Power Board, consequent upon the termination of the board’s contract with Glen Afton Colleries, Ltd. The supply of coal reimbursement of the working railways account on account of the reduction of 15 per cent, in freight on farm produce for the period from February 5 to March 31, requires a vote of £37,159. For services in excess of the vote, the Native Land Development Account paid out £41,170. The Government spent £35 in supplying tea and sugar to the relief committee at the Chatham Islands.