B—7 [Pt. I]

DETAILS OF ESTIMATES FOR THE

STATE COAL-MINES ACCOUNT

Minister of Mines AN ESTIMATE of the Sum that will be required in the Year ending 31st March, 1949, to defray the Salaries, Contingencies, and Expenses of State Coal-mines. Summary

(a) Increase due to further acquisition of collieries. (b) Provision for new collieries. (c) Full expenditure did not come to charge in 1947-48.

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1948-49. 1947-48. Salaries. Other Charges. Total. Voted. Expended. VOTE—STATE COAL-MINES £ 87,000 £ 4,628,000 £ 14,715,000 £ 4,276,935 £ 4,074,566 VOTE—STATE COAL-MINES (Total number of officers : 1948-49, 170 ; 1947-48, 150) Salaries — Other Salaries 170 (£150 to £1,025) Other Charges for and incidental to — Acquisition of land for housing, &c. Coal supplied free to mine-managers, &c. Coal supplied at reduced rates to workmen at tlie mines Collieries— Capital expenditure: development and boring, purchase and installation of plant and machinery, purchase of land, erection of buildings, construction of roads, drainage, sewerage, and watersupply schemes. (Includes <£ Works expenditure " £17,500) — Birchwood Colliery Blackball Colliery Burke's Creek Colliery Denniston Colliery Dobson Colliery Garvey's Creek Colliery Kamo Colliery 1948-49. 1947-48. Voted. Expended. £ 87,000 £ 68,800 £ 65,306 1,000 (a) 3,500 (a) 30,000 (b) 1,000 30,000 40,000 (b) 40,000 40,000 17,000 {b) 8,000 500 2,500 21,000 28,000 23,000 22,500 30,000 1,072 2,693 25,042 (c)4,808 (c) 8,020 (c) 9,866 (c) 11,725