SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATES, 1939-40

DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE AND PRlSONS—continued.

REMARKS. (a) The installation of machines for the recording of evidence in the Supreme Courts in the four main centres has been under consideration. The system has been tried out successfully in Wellington, and it is now proposed to purchase the equipment for this Court in the meantime. (b) The additional sum of £200 is required to meet overtime payments consequent upon the searching of entries in the registers of the Registrar-General's Office for the Social Security Department. £10 provided in Main Estimates (c) £3,000 provided in Main Estimates. (d) Provision for a more intensive manuring programme at the Hautu and Rangipo Prison farms and additional purchases of cattle and sheep, and new farm implements. £13,700 provided in Main Estimates. (e) Additional amount required in connection with road-construction work at Waikune Prison. £3,500 provided in Main Estimates. (/) Provision for reprint of seventy-five Probation Registers. £20 provided in Main Estimates.

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