State Grants for Special Purposes

Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 113, 3 August 1927, Page 9

State Grants for Special Purposes

COST OF ROYAL VISIT SAVING ON MAIL SUBSIDIES ECONOMY IN MANY ESTIMATES (THE SUN’S Parliamentary Reporter.) WELLINGTON, Tuesday. The Estimates presented to the House of Representatives to-night, over all departments, covered a total of £24,258,549, as compared with £24,222.246 estimated last year, and an actual expenditure of £24,317,277. The Government, through its Internal Affairs Department, spent £43,15G on the visit of the Duke and Duchess of York. The cost of entertaining the Austraian Fleet, the Japanese Fleet, and the Empire Parliamentary delegates last year, and other visitors, amounted to £5,000. The vote for the maintenance of the Parliamentary Buildings is to be £5,000, against £8,300 voted last year, and £7,260 spent. The superannuation fund vote is the same as last year, £170,000. The vote this year for Hansard is £13,597, as against £11,755 last year. BELLAMY’S AND HANSARD The vote for Bellamy’s is £7,624. Railway passes and concessions to members and ex-members of the Legislature, families, relations, etc., amount to £24,708; railway passes to officers of the Legislature, £270; railway sleeping berths for members of Parliament, £350. There is an additional vote of £3,630 for New Zealand war graves and memorials. In the Cook Islands estimates £1,300 is provided for the maintenance of the leper station at Makogai, against £.1,500 voted, and £94S actually spent, last year. A vote of £2,00 Ois again provided for the erection of accommodation at Fiji for Cook Islands lepers. A vote of £I,OOO is provided for hospital repairs at Niue. A TRIP ABROAD The cost of sending New Zealand’s delegate to the conference of the League of Nations at Geneva last year, including the expenses of a private secretary, was £2,875. The Derpurtment of Education requires £15,000 for the rebuilding and furnishing of schools destroyed bv fire, and for the rent of and alterations to temporary premises during rebuilding. The amount spent last year was £10,833. For the maintenance of the Waihou and Ohiwemuri River improvement works, the same vote of £I,OOO is provided. The expenditure last year was £1,176. A vote of £SOO is provided for the maintenance of Government House, Auckland. A sum of £5,000 is provided for cable repairs. VOTES FOR ROTORUA

In the estimates of the Tourist Department the following items appear: Rotorua baths expenses, £1,700; Rotorua Sanatorium maintenance, £3,800; Rotorua works, including Whakarewarewa, £2,650; Rotorua reserves and other matters, £7,200; Te Aroha hot springs, maintenance, £1,000; Lake House, Waikaremoana, £1.500; WaiNo provision is made for subsidies for broadcasting, but a loan of £15,000 to the Broadcasting Company of New Zealand, Ltd., is noted. For industries and commerce there is £34,910, including £6OO cost of Proprietary Articles Traders Commission, and an extra £3OO to provide permanent material for Government exhibitions. Included in the Internal Affairs vote of £315,463 is £295 payment to the Tourist Department on account of the Taupo and Tokaanu wharwes and beacons. The vote of £3.700 for laboratory expenses includes payment of ,£1.500 each to Auckland and Wellington. Hospital Boards. The Karitane Home, Auckland, has its £I.OOO grant renewed. St. Helens Home, Auckland, has the wages vote increased from £1,600 to £I.BOO, and at Christchurch from £BSO to £950. Maintenance in Auctkland is reduced from £ 5.000 to £ 4.000 on St. Helens Home, and in Christchurch from £3,000 to £2,500. REFITTING NAVAL BASE The expansion and the refitting of the naval base at Devonport commands £15,000, and the overhaul of the Dunedin, being undertaken in England, £30,500. There is an extra vote for the Wakakura of £350. This year naval reserves vote is increased from £5,345 to £14,525. due to extension of the scheme' to Wellington. Christchurch and Dunedin. There is £1.350 i for the homeward and outward passage ! of the cruiser Dunedin. P"or the Department of Scientific and I Industrial Research £46,004 is estii mated, Compared with £35,131 last year. This year's estimate includes

£17,250 as grants for research, as against £1,750 in 1926. There is also £GIS for research scholarships transferred from the Education Department estimate. SAVING IN OCEAN MAILS A saving of £IO,OOO is provided for in the conveyance of ocean mails by the Pacific services. The Canadian and Atlantic charges were £6,500 last year, and £ 5,000 is provided this year, while the United States of America and Atlantic transport costs of £ 14,500. against an estimate of £9,000 this year. For the New Zealand-San Francisco service £25,000 is provided, against £26,926 spent last year, and for the Vancouver service £20,000 is provided, against £21,539 spent. ADVERTISING NEW ZEALAND For advertising New Zealand by special publicity, £35,650 is provid' d. The expenses in the United Kingdom in connection with advertising Now I Zealand were £ 2,000. For the purchase of a steamer for service in the Islands, £27,189 is provided on account. 1 A total of £5,000 was spent last year pn entertaining, there being exceptional payments in connection with the visit of the Australian Fleet, th** Japanese Fleet, and the Empire Parliamentary delegates. In connection wrti’i the visit of the Duke and Duchess *>f York. £43,156 was spent by the Interval Affairs Department. A w»te of £9,066 is provided for as New Zealand's proportion of the secretarial expenses of the League of Nations for the year ending December 31. 19-Z. — —-