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DETAILS OF ESTIMATES FOR THE
MARINE DEPARTMENT— continued
(а) Provision made for one voyage only. (б) Overexpenditure due to increases in loading and unloading charges and in providing better facilities for crew. (c) Includes reconditioning and conversion to Diesel propulsion, £25,500; also radio telephone, £640. (d) Imperial Shipping Committee, £200; International Hydrographic Bureau, £163. (e) Printing-costs higher than anticipated. (/) Provision made for additional school at Wellington.
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V OTE —MARINE —continued 1947-48. 1946-47. Subdivision No. IV —Mercantile Marine Voted. Expended. (Number of officers : 1947-48, 44; 1946-47, 44) £ £ £ Salaries — Other Salaries 44 (£180 to £1,000) 22,946 22,434 23,267 Other Charges for and incidental to — Barque " Pamir " : working-expenses (a) 22,000 47,270 (b) 62,015 Bluff - Stewart Island ferry service (c) 35,000 7,780 10,995 Charts (recoverable) 300 500 219 Chatham Island : shipping subsidy 400 390 400 Checking passenger traffic : overtime 800 800 881 Distressed seamen, maintenance and repatriation of 200 200 176 Examinations, expenses connected with 400 300 475 Great Barrier Island : shipping subsidy 1,000 1,000 1,000 Imperial Shipping Committee and International Hydrographic Bureau, contribution to .. (d) 363 160 100 Merchant Navy badges, &c., also War Medals 152 30 52 Motor-vehicles, purchase and maintenance of; also accident costs 350 100 46 "New Zealand Nautical Almanac " and preparation of tide-tables (part recoverable).. 1,000 650 (e) 1,201 Office expenses 100 100 97 Office fittings and requisites 90 75 103 Overtime and meal allowances 400 1,000 434 Payments to Post and Telegraph Department 600 700 545 Portobello Ferry Service subsidy 200 Printing and stationery 350 200 373 Prosecutions under Shipping and Seamen Act 20 10 19 Refund of light dues under special circumstances 10 10 1 Refund of wages to deserters under special circumstances 10 10 . . Removal of offices and alterations to premises 10 10 Rent 400 790 403 Saleable books and forms (recoverable) 250 300 66 School of Navigation : maintenance of equip1 ment (/) 700 275 361