B—7 [Pp. I]

YEAE ENDING 31 MAKCH, 1949

DEPARTMENT OF SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL RESEARCH— continued

{a) Increase in staff due to reorganization of the Department and to the transfer of the work of the Plant Research Bureau (Head Office) from " Subdivision No. ll—Research Investigations." (b) Increased provision to cover expenses and allowances of members of the Defence Scientific Advisory Committee recently established. (c) Return of Assistant Secretary (Physics and Engineering) to New Zealand from the United Kingdom, via Canada and the United States of America.

199

1947-48. 1948-49. VOTE—SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL RESEARCH— continued Voted. Expended. £ £ £ Subdivision No. I — Head Office —continued Salaries — continued Professional Division 1 at £1,100 (7 months), £1,125 (5 months), (Deputy Secretary) 1,112 22,716 2 at £1,075 (Assistant Secretary in charge of Agriculture and Biology ; Assistant Secretary in charge of Physics and Engineering 2,150 1,765 Other Salaries 80 (£150 to £1,025) 26,488 20,227 J {a) 31,200 23,455 22,716 'Other Charges for and incidental to— Advisory Council and Defence Scientific Advisory Committee : allowances and travel-ling-expenses (b) 1,100 750 836 Capital expenditure, including land, buildings and improvements, furniture, instruments, equipment, machinery, motor-vehicles, and purchase of other fixed assets 2,100 2,725 2,684 Expenses of officers travelling overseas, including expenses of new appointees travelling to New Zealand and transfer expenses of officers appointed to overseas positions 100 700 (c) 388 Maintenance and operating expenses of offices and stores, including purchase of consumable stores, payments to the Post and Telegraph Department, printing and stat1 ionery, rent and rates, running-expenses of motor-vehicles, and office expenses 4,260 3,330 4,280 Overtime and meal allowances 550 625 833 Travelling allowances and expenses, including expenses of transfer of officers 980 825 854