8.—7 [PT. I]

YEAR ENDING 31 MARCH, 1944.

DEPARTMENT OF INTERNAL AFFAIRS—continued.

(a) Number of officers, 23. Travelling-allowances, £135 9s. 7d.; travelling-expenses, £275 14s. (b) Anzae Day wreaths, £9 2s. 6d.; Armistice Day wreaths, £10 16s. 9d.; wreaths for funerals of Mr. R. S. Forsyth, £2 10s., Sergeant R. Werohia, R.N.Z.A.F., £2 ss. 4d., and United States airmen, £2-25.; certificate under the Law Practitioners Act, 1931, £4 4s. : total, £31 os. 7d.

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Number oi Persons. T Q49_4.Q 1943-41 1943 441942-43 VOTE—INTERNAL AFFAIRS—continued. Voted. Expended. £ £ ' £ Subdivision No. V.—Miscellaneous Services—-continued. Other Charges for and incidental to —continued. Public Service Superannuation Fund— Contribution to (P.S.S. Act, 1927, section 50) .. .. 86,000 86,000 86,000 Contribution to meet increased allowances to widows and children (P.S.S. Act, 1927, section 114) .. .. 22,200 21,600 22,115 Contribution to : Under provisions of Statutes Amendment Act, 1936, section 27 .. .. .. 837 837 837 Regulations Act, 1936 : Expenses of printing regulations, &c. (recoverable) .. .. .. .. .. 1,800 2,000 1,766 Societies for Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, fines paid to (Police Offences Act, 1927, section 15) .. .. 25 25 Superannuation funds: Reimbursement of amount of reduction of rate of interest on mortgages and loss on conversion .. .. .. .. .. 22,300 22,700 22,713 Tasman Ter-Centennial celebrations and memorials .. 100 400 335 Telegrams beyond the Dominion .. .. .. 700 400 1,027 Telephone services, Ministers and Parliamentary UnderSecretaries (including installation, extensions, maintenance, rent, and calls) .. .. .. .. 1,500 1,500 1,591 Town-planning: Expenses in connection with (including travelling - expenses of Board and Town - planning Adviser) .. .. .. .. .. .. 250 500 188 Transfer expenses of officers .. .. .. .. 20 20 Travelling allowances and expenses of— Minister and Parliamentary Under-Secrctaries (allowances only as authorized by the Civil List Act, 1920, and the Civil List Amendment Act, 1936) .. .. 1,500 1,500 2,784 Ministers and their wives and Parliamentary UnderSecretaries: Expenses .. .. .. .. 5,250 5,250 7,199 Private Secretaries to Ministers .. .. .. 2,750 2,750 5,171 Ministerial staff .. .. .. .. .. 400 500 (a) 411 Members of the General Assembly (Finance Act, 1936, section 39) .. .. .. .. .. 100 100 110 Turnbull Library— Binding of books .. .. .. .. .. 300 250 388 Incidental expenses .. .. .. .. 700 650 850 Purchase of books .. .. .. .. .. 400 400 252 Contingencies, including unforeseen expenditure incidental to the other items of this subdivision.. ; .. 50 90 (b) 31 Camping-equipment for His Excellency the Governor-General .. 523 609 Empire exhibition of war cartoons in Canada : Expenses relative to exhibits from New Zealand .. .... 25 21 Exhibition of New Zealand Art in United States of America and Canada .. .. .. .. .. 100 14 Grants—Chinese Red Cross and Medical Relief Fund .. .. .. 5,000 5,000 Greek Government for distress in Greece .. .. .. 4,000 4,000 Waitangi National Trust Board: Towards cost of construction of Centennial war-canoe house .. .... 75 10 Memorial to the late Right Hon. M. J. Savage, erection of, including preliminary expenses .. .. .. .. 5,000 I 7,052