VARIOUS VOTES GRANTED

Timaru Herald, Volume CLIV, Issue 22670, 25 August 1943, Page 4

VARIOUS VOTES GRANTED

Supplementary Estimates Compassionate Allowances (N.Z.P.A.) WELLINGTON. Aug. 24. Votes totalling £1,099,180 are provided for in the supplementary Estimates presented in the House to-day. An additional grant of £2500 is provided for grants to local bodies for earthquake damage repairs. There was a vote of £20.000 for this purpose on the main Estimates in the Internal Affairs vote. There are several items to cover the funeral expenses of three Ministers of the Crown who recently died in office. Thev are the late Rt. Hon. J. G. Coates £1250, the late Hon. H. T. Armstrong £232, the late Hon. P. K. Paikea £2OOO. Part of the last named amount is recoverable, £370 having been contributed by the Maoris toward the cost of the food used at the tangis. A vote of £3OOO is made 3000 is made to the Cook Islands Administration as an additional amount for the restoration of hurricane damage and th® rehabilitation of plantations. A compassionate grant of £996 is made to the widow of the late Mr G. S. Ridley, who was fatally injured while assisting the police in the Koiterangi man-hunt in* October. 1941.

An additional vote of £lO.OOO is made for the development of the flaxmilling industry, £20,000 having been provided in the main Estimates. The Working Railways Account contains a vote of £25,000 to cover the cost of National Savings Bonds issued to employees in payment for holiday leave accrued to December 31, 1941, and not granted.

Under the Past and Telegraph Working Expenses Account there is an item of £505 for contribution to Cable and Wireless Ltd. to enable uniform rates for cable messages within the Empire to be reduced to local currency. There was £1919 provided for this purpose on the main Estimates. The agreement expired on April 25, 1943, and the additional amount is required for the payment of the subsidy to that date. There Is also a vote of £7OOO to provide for the photographic processing of inward and outward airgraph mails.

There Is also a vote of £36,000 to cover the cost of remuneration of members of the Land Sales Court and Land Sales Committees yet to be appointed in accordance with the provisions in the Servicemen’s Settlement and Land Sales Bill Compensation totalling £5OO is awarded io Warder J. G. Crawford who was injured in the course of his duty at the Mt. Eden prison several years ago.