SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATES, 1939-40.

STATE FORESTS ACCOUNT.

(а) Additional amount required for an ex gratia payment of compensation to and hospital expenses incurred by workman injured whilst returning from fire-fighting. (б) Additional amount required to refund to a sawmiller the appraisal fee 011 area applied for by him in 1930. This area has since been sold and the appraisal fee recovered from another sawmiller.

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Salaries. ! Other Charges. ' Total. VOTE No. .—STATE FOREST SERVICE— £ 1 £ £ Capital Charges— ( Subdivision I. —Salaries .. .. .. .. i I „ VI. —General Afforestation, &c. .. .. ., Q r _ qqq \ (j r ggg Operation and Maintenance Charges— Subdivision II. —General Development, &c. .. .. .. ' 267 i 161 Gross Total .. .. .. ,. .. .. 650 Cr. 505 145 Credits-in-aid NET TOTAL .. .. .. .. .. .. 650 Cr. 505 145 Number oi Persons. £ £ £ _______ VOTE No. .—STATE FOREST SERVICE. 1939-4oj 1938-39 1 Subdivision No. I.—Salaries. Salaries— Clerical Division. Class VII— 1 1 (£80), (part year) .. .. .. j 00 General Division. 1 1 (£355), (part year) .. .. .. .. .. 237 Non-permanents. £ 1 (£310), (part year) .. .. .. .. 207 4 3 (£65 to £305), (part year) .. .. .. 146 353 o •• Total —Subdivision No. I .. .. .. 050 Subdivision No. II.—General Development and Management of Indigenous State Forests, Provisional State Forests, and Forested Reserves (including Extraction of Timber for Sale, Plant, Buildings, Hooding, &c., Silvicultural Surveys, Compensation to Employees, and Contingencies). Operation and Maintenance Charges— Charges for and incidental to — Payment in lieu of compensation, &c., to workmen injured on fire duty .. .. .. .. .. ( a ) 4g Refund to sawmiller of appraisal fee .. .. .. (6) 113 Total—Subdivision No. II .. .. .. 101