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SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATES, 1942-43.

MENTAL HOSPITALS DEPARTMENT.

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Salaries. Other Charges. Total. VOTE—MENTAL HOSPITALS— £ £ £ Gross Total .. .. .. .. .. .. 11,513 1,600 13,113 Credits-in-aid NET TOTAL .. .. .. .. .. 11,513 1,600 13,113 orFersons For Services chargeable on the Consolidated Fund — £ £ £ continued. 1Q49-43 IQ41 49, ORDINARY REVENUE ACCOUNT—continued. VOTE—MENTAL HOSPITALS. Salaries— Professional Division. Increases to salaries — Medical Officers— Class Special A— £ 2 at £900 (£85) (4 months) .. .. 57 Class Special B— 1 at £815 (£50) (7 months) .. .. 29 4 at £815 (£50) (4 months) .. .. 68 2 at £815 (£50) (3 months) .. .. 24 — 178 Other salaries — 216 (£65 to £765) (additional) .. .. .. (a) 1,335 Amount deducted in error from item " Salaries " in Main. Estimates .. .. .. .. (6)10,000 11,513 Other charges for and incidental to — Fire-watching expenses (additional) .. .. .. (c) 100 Patients, expenses in connection with — Transfer (additional) .. .. .. .. (d) 1,500 — 1,600 Gross Total .. .. .. .. .. 13,113 Credits-in-aid NET TOTAL .. .. .. .. .. 13,113 (a) To provide for increase of £5 in salaries allowed to lower paid officers. (b) To provide for payment of salaries to nursing staff expected to be appointed through National Service Department to help fill existing vacancies. (c) Additional expenditure to be incurred in connection with E.P.S. equipment (£20 provided in Main Estimates). (d) It is necessary to effect considerable transfers in order to provide for evacuation of approximately seven hundred patients from Porirua because of earthquake damage. £400 provided in Main Estimates.