8.—7.

CLASS VIII.—MINISTER OF EDUCATION— continued.

60

Appropriations for Consolidated Fund Services.

Item. 18' '0-91. £ £ LUNACY AND CHARITABLE DEPARTMENT— contd i 7 VOTE No. 48— continued. Lunatic Asylums— continued. Salaries —continued. Hokitika — Visiting Medical Officer (also Prisons £50) Superintendent Matron 11 Attendants and Servants— 6 Male Attendants, 1 at £125, 4 at £100, 1 at £80; Farm Labourer at £05 ; 4 Female Attendants at £65 Seadiff— Resident Medical Superintendent Assistant Medical Officer Clerk, £100, Storekeeper, £70... Matron 52 Attendants and Servants — 25 Male Attendants, 1 at £110, 1 at £100, 1 at £82 10s., 0 at £80, 4 at £75,11 at £70; Ward Assistant, £0 10s. ; Carpenter, £150 ; Farm Bailiff, £110; Shoemaker, £90; Plumber, £90; Engineer, £80; Baker, £75 ; 17 Female Attendants, 1 at £60, 4 at £50,1 at £47 10s., 1 at £45, 4 at £42 10s., 6 at £40; Laundress, £60; 2 Assistants at £40; Cook, £60 Increase of Salaries of Attendants 150 300 85 930 (500 250 170 105 3,406 325 Other Charges — Fees to Medical "Witnesses Rations Fuel and Light Bedding and Clothing Surgery and Dispensary "Wines, Spirits, Ale, and Porter Necessaries, Incidental and Miscellaneous Farm Amount required to allow of a month's leave for recreation to all persons in attendance on patients To provide for discharged and aged imbeciles General Contingencies 19,167 8 9 10 11 12 18 14 15 16 1,000 13,500 1,700 4,000 200 50 5,500 800 17 18 300 500 500 Less estimated credits under section 10 of " The Public Revenues Act, 1882 " 28,050 8,000 Total—Votk No. 48 20,050 VOTE No. 49. Chaeitable — Other Charges — Maintenance of Children at the Asylums for the Blind, Melbourne and Sydney Burial expenses of destitute persons Compassionate allowances— Widow and family of Denis Phelan R. J. Deighton ... David Armstrong Contingencies 39,217 575 125 52 52 52 500 Total —Vote No. 49 1,356,