B—7 [Ft. I]

DETAILS OF ESTIMATES FOR THE

DEPARTMENT OF TOURIST AND HEALTH RESORTS— continued

(a) Additional provision required to meet arrears of maintenance. (b) Overexpenditure was covered by increased revenue. (c) Additional provision necessary to meet cost of major drainage repairs. (d) Provision to meet operating-expenses for part-year and cost of renovations. (e) Operation of training-school suspended meanwhile owing to shortage of trainees. Provision made to meet outstanding liabilities. (/) Grant towards expenses of training-school established at Auckland. Delay in opening school resulted in underexpenditure.

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VOTE—TOURIST AND HEALTH RESORTS 1948-4-9. 1947-48. •— continued Voted. Expended. Subdivision No. I — Tourist and Health Resorts —continued £ £ £ Other Charges eor and incidental to — continued Subsidies : motor and steamer services— Bluff - Stewart Island steamer service .. 200 200 200 Fairlie-Pukaki-Hermitage-Queenstown .. 338 338 338 Pipiriki-Retaruke river service 286 286 358 Te Anau Hotel — Operating expenses, including furniture, repairs, and com- £ pensation to workmen, &c. .. 13,200 Repairs to buildings and plant .. 3,300 (a) 16,500 11,000 (b) 13,734 Te Aroha Hot Springs— Operating - expenses : baths, gardens, music, furniture, and £ repairs .. .. . . 3,300 Repairs to buildings and plant .. 2,670 (c) 5,970 3,300 3,722 Tokaanu Hotel — Operating-expenses, including furniture and repairs, and com- £ pensation to workmen .. 21,300 Repairs to buildings and plant .. 1,400 (a) 22,700 21,000 21,528 Tongariro National Park — Chateau, huts, &c. : operatingexpenses, including furniture, repairs, and compensation to £ workmen, &c. .. .. 26,000 Repairs to buildings and plant .. 36,500 (d) 62,500 30,000 27,409 Maintenance and improvements of roads, bridges, tracks, &c. 500 500 Training-school for hotel workers: grant towards operating-expenses (e) 500 2,000 (f) 288 Transfer and removal expenses 400 300 379 Transfer and removal expenses of staff to and from overseas offices 700 500 344