SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATES.

Te Puke Times, 13 December 1918, Page 2

SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATES.

£100,000 FOR EPIDEMIC EX-, PENSES. .Wellington, December 10, •") The Supplementary Estimates submitted to the House include: Assistance to sick and funeral funds of Friendly Societies on account of deficiencies to the war, £10,000. ' ■ . Increased pay to. prison employees, £3335. Extradition from British Columbia, of John C. Harrison, charged with obtaining money by false pretences, £638. Reward .for recovery of the body of Oswald Mayhew, charged with murder, £50. Expenses in connection with conference between the Governand the Miners' Federation, and coal mine owners, £100. " Compassionate allowance' to widowsOkey, Fletcher/and Hind* marsh, £400 each. ! Allowance to widow and family of the late Native Judge Wilson, ; £676. Expenses of the Premier and Sir Joseph Ward on their recent visit to England, £3000 ; expend, ses accompanying secretaries, £1000. Re-erection of memorial cairn to the late Sir J Mackenzie, £500, 1 Subsidies to Boy Scouts, £500, Purchase of Turnbull Library, £10,000. ■ Maternity grants, £1000. Supplementary grants to Hospital Boards, £3000 : influenza"' expenses and gratuities, £100,000, Cost of coal trade committees, £3000, Repairs to Amokura, £2500,' Forest tree-growing, planting, additional £3500. Refund of cost of defence stores issued to sufferers by the Waimarino bush fire, £908; subsidy Waimarino Fire Relief Association, £10,000/ Expenses of special licensing poll £30,000, preparation and printing rolls £18,000, Expenses for establishment of Industrial and Commerce Committee £1000 Grant towards educational farm at Wairarapa for discharged soldiers £3000 Parliamentary Committee of Inquiry regarding promotion of local industries £1000 - Destiuction of rabbits on Crown and Native Lands £5000, Additional allowances to school committees £6000, conveyance of school children £3000, teachers' salaries £29,500 Compassionate allowance to-' rjext-of kin of teachers who died during the epidemic £1500 to public libraries Purchase of lands for additions to State forests £7500: Purchase and working of plant in State forests Cash stolen by burglars from Auckland railways goods office £195 Matata water supply £1430