B—7 [Ft. I]

YBAE ENDING 31 MAKCH, 1948

NATIVE DEPARTMENT— continued

(а) Owing to the delay in establishing training centres no expenditure was incurred last financial year. Expenditure will be chargeable under the item when the centres are established. (б) This expenditure is under the control of the Department of Agriculture, by whom the estimate is submitted. , (c) This amount is to be paid to Internal Affairs Department to cover the cost of departmental announcements. No payment made since 31st March, 1945. Provision for three years at £2OO per annum.

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Y OTE —NATIVE —continued 1946-47. 1947-48. Miscellaneous Services — Voted. Expended. Charges for and incidental to — Accommodation for Maori workers at Moerewa £ £ £ Freezing-works : maintenance 500 500 1,338 Accommodation of workmen as provided for in Native Land Development Workers' Agreement, 1942 Agent's commission 500 500 30 20 Ahuwhenua Trophy : expenses of presenta32 tion, &c. 75 75 Board and lodging allowances for youth trade trainees (a) 500 1,800 («) Board of Native Affairs : expenses of members and of District Committees 30 50 514 Carpentry and allied trade-training instruction 2,000 3,000 Clearing Native lands of noxious weeds, under 10,000 section 16 of Noxious Weeds Act, 1928 (b) 13,000 10,000 Compassionate grants to widows or dependants 100 100 of deceased officers Confiscated and other Native lands 5 5 50 Consolidation of Native Land Acts 250 300 Consolidation of Native lands — Administration expenses (including expenses 500 269 of Native meetings) 500 Valuation fees 5 5 5 Contribution towards cost of memorials to 50 representative Maoris 50 50 Contribution towards cost of New Zealand Gazette .. • • • • (c) 600 200 Costs arising out of accidents caused by departmental vehicles 100 Destruction of rabbits on Native lands: 2,543 wages and other expenses (b) 3,000 3,000 Earthquake and war-damage insurance on land-development and housing schemes, 200 289 State's proportion of .. 300 Fees to Supervisors, Native Interpreters' 6 Examination 10 5 Horticultural and allied experimental research 400 regarding shelter-belts 400 Housing research and experiments 25 200 Maori meeting-houses and halls, reconstruction 1,000 and extension of 1,000 1,000