SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATES,

Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2046, 25 November 1907, Page 2

SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATES,

THE PRINCIPAL ITEMS

(Special to Times). WELLINGTON, Nov. 24

Following are the principal items of general interest on the Supplementary Estimates:— "

Houso of Representatives: Salaries and other charges £985, general expenses of Parliament £3,367 (including linen, cihina, glass, cutlery, etc., for uso in Bellamy’s and Parliamentary Buildings, £540), maintenance of Bellamy’s staff during session £4OO, allowances to messengers etc. for time lost between session £3OO, uniforms for messengers £l5O. Canadian steam service subsidy £10,000; Franco-British Exhibition (on account) £5,000; on purchase of statuary from Now Zealand Liternatioual Exhibition, £2000; public buildings and domains £10,430 (this includes an additional £2OO cash for Government House, Auckland, and Government Houso, Wellington) ; Native Department £2,000, for cleaning Native lands of noxious weeds; expenses of extraditions of D. C. Mclntyro £242; expenses of Royal Commission on Nightcaps disaster £I,OOO ; cost of copies ( of book “Life in Aotea” (G. J. C. Anderson) and 100 copies of book “To Tohunga” (G. W. Dittraer) £150; Exhibition organ, given to Christchurch city £4,245; preparing and writing history of Exhibition £700; Oamaru rain-making experiments £246; expenses of Hon. W. Hall-Jones on sick leave £500; expenses of private secretary accompanying Hon. W. Hall-Jones to England £200; expenses of visit of Dr. Fitcbett, Solicitor-General, to London £550; cost of Dominion Day celebrations, additional £400; Dominion Day celebrations £1,500; Dominion Day medals for school children £1,500; grant to cover cost of New Zealand International Exhibition £17,000; refund of moneys in respect of confirmed leases,' "West Coast, North Island, F. V. Lysaglit and others, £1,348; Seddon Memorial, cost of grave and monument £5,000; arms and spare parts BN .303 short rifles to complete equipment for Mounted Rifles £lO,000; equipment for mobile force £3,000; camp equipage £1,000; compensation for firing of grass. Barewood run, Otago, £517; sending rifle team to Sydney £300; ordnance ammunition, including ammunition for G field guns on order, £15,000; miscellaneous submining and ordnance stores £4,000; Department of Labor £6,324, including compassionate allowance to youngest child of tlio lato J ames Mackay £500; expenses of sweated industries exhibit £300; workers’ dwellings on Crown lands £6324; architect for workers’ dwellings £250; Department of Lands and Survey £24,751, including purchase of lands from Manawatu Railway Company, adjoining Tararoa forest reservo £1463; Manawatu river protection (£1 for £1 up to £4000) on account £500; payment to chief forester for editing “Tree Culture in New Zealand” £SO; Southland A. and P. Association, balance subsidy for purchase and improvement of grounds, £9OO ; inspector of . meat, 'London, four months £135.

Tlio exhibit in phormium culture is to receive £235 a year, and the organiser of agricultural experiments £4OO a year.

Other items: Waerenga State Farm buildings, etc., £1,000; Departmental apiaries £300; subsidies for miniature rifle ranges £500; technical instruction free places (additional) £750; extra probationers at general hospitals £550; State coal depots (additional) £5,000; royalty to Greymoutli Harbor Board oil State coal sold to public £2354; workers’ clwellings £10,170; Public Trust offices, Christchurch, £10,000; bridging and road improvements, Hanmer, for motor car service £5,000; Onehunga wharf railway (on account) £1.000; Nelson wliarf railway £5,000; Picton wharf railway £5,000.