SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATES

Timaru Herald, Volume CLVIII, Issue 23376, 6 December 1945, Page 4

SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATES

Provision For Extra £1,740,226 Allocation Detailed (N.Z.P.A.) WELLINGTON, Dec. 5. A total vote of £1,740,226 is proviced lor in the Supplementary Estimates for the current financial year presented in lhe House of Representatives to-day. The vote lor the ordinary revenue account ol tne cousonaaved buna amounts to £737,074, mat lor separate accounts to io»y,oot> ana mat lor accounts outsiae me Luonc Account to £3iu,ou4.

in. additional amount of £1035 is voted ror conveying tne New Zeaiana Minister, scan ana ramifies to ana irom wasnmgton on appointment ana nansier. There was -uUU on me main estimates .lor mis purpose. in me vole tor me Department oi Internal Allan's mere is an amount oi £lO,OOO lor grants and suosiaies to organisations co loster pnysical welfare aim recreation. A compassionate grant of £5OO is made to me widow oi Mr J. W. Munro, M.P. A further £2500 is voted to meet expenditure incurred as a result ol the Kaiapoi. Temuka and Aaitangaia floods. Tne expenses of the visit overseas by the Chief Justice (the Rt. Hon. Sir Michael Myers) and Mr C. C. AiKman m connection witn me establishment of the Permanent Court of international Justice is represented by a vote of £lO5O. There is a vote of £7OOO by way of subsidy toward the cost of road transport of timber to maintain building activities m Auckland and Waikato during the period oi the coal shortage. In the Isiand territories’ vote there is £BlB lor the visit to New Zealand of Samoan fautua. The Marine Department’s vote contains an amount oi £22,907 lor the maintenance, repair and renewal of harbour equipment at Greymouth, and there is also a vote of £25,590 to meet the cost ol repairs and overhaul of the Greymouth Harbour Board dredge. An additional £4551 is voted for me Bluff-(Stewart Island ferry service, which is to be run by the Marine Department. The credit of £133,400 in the Labour Department's vote for the promotion of employment is transferred to the vote for the National Employment Service, for which there is a new vote of £215,378. There is a vote of £3OO for the expenses of the conference called by the Minister of Labour in connection with industrial unrest.

A note to the vote for the Department of Scientific Industrial Research states that a fats research laboratory has been set up for the primary purpose of investigating the composition of New Zealand butter in view of the serious competition expected from margarine on the English market. An additional £lBO,OOO is voted to the Social Security Fund for maternity, hospital and nharmaceutical benefits, but it is stated that the expenditure to date indicates that the provision made in the main estimates will be sufficient. There is an additional £lO,OOO in the vote for the State Forests Account for the acquisition of land for forestry purposes. It is stated that this is for further purchases of land for the rehabilitation of ex-servicemen. There is also a vote of £87,500 for forest projects within the Auckland, Wellington, Nelson, Westland, Canterbury and Southland conservancies. There is a grant of £lOOO to the Ngarimu V.C. and 28th (Maori) Battalion Memorial Scholarship Fund. In the unauthorised expenditure account provision is made for a compassionate grant of £5OO to the widow of Brigadier James Hargest, M.P. There is an amount of £74.313 for the purchase of the Ohai open-cast colliery, the Wairaki colliery and the Morley coal lease. In a statement of sums irrecoverable by the Crown, there is shown a lass of cash amounting to £59,405 arising out of the Greek and Libylan campaigns.