15,-7 [FT. ll].

SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATES, 1940-41.

STATE FORESTS ACCOUNT.

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j Salaries. [ Other Charges Total. I | I VOTE—STATE FOREST SERVICE — £ £ £ Subdivision I. —Salaries and General Administration .. .. .. 237 237 „ II.—General Forestry .. .. .. .. 63,700 63,700 „ III. —Utilization and Industrial .. .. .. .. Cr. 237 Cr. 237 GROSS Total .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 63,700 63,700 Credits-in-aid 63,700 63,700 NET TOTAL £ £ £ VOTE-STATE FOREST SERVICE. Subdivision No. I.—Salaries and General Administration (Development and Management of State Forests, Provisional State Forests, including Extraction of Timber for Sale, Plant, Buildings, Roading, &c., Silvicultural Surveys, Forest Research, Compensation to Employees and Contingencies, Acquisition of Land and Timber, Grants and Subsidies to Local Bodies, and Miscellaneous ). Charges for and incidental to — Compensation for timber cut from Native land .. . . (a) 137 Special reconnaissance of kauri regeneration on private land . . . . . . . . . . . . (b) 100 Total—Subdivision No. I .. .. .. j 237 Subdivision No. II. —General Forestry, Building, Tree-planting, Maintenance and Protection of Forests, Extraction of Timber for Sale, Roading, Operation of Nurseries, Compensation to Employees, and Collateral Activities. Charges for and incidental to — Forestry Projects within— Auckland Conservancy .. .. . . .. 7,300 Rotorua Conservancy .. .. .. .. 28,800 Wellington Conservancy .. .. . . . . 4,300 Nelson Conservancy .. .. .. .. 6,500 Westland Conservancy .. .. . . .. 200 Canterbury Conservancy .. .. .. 8,600 Southland Conservancy .. . . .. .. 8,000 Estimated credits-in-aid under Section 51 of the Public Revenues Act, 1926 .. .. £63,700 Total —Subdivision No. II .. .. (e) 63,700 (a) Compensation for timber cut from Native land adjoining State Forest activities. (b) A special reconnaissance of kauri regeneration on private cut-over lands is being made. (ic) Subsidies payable by Labour Department on men employed in State forests under Scheme 13. Work additional to that covered by provision of £236,250 in Main Estimates. The expenditure will be recouped as a credit-in-aid.