8.—7 [Pt. I].

YEAR ENDING 31 MARCH, 1943.

NATIVE DEPARTMENT— continued.

(a) Number of officers, 223. Travelling-allowances, £5,803 ; travelling-expenses, £1,561 ; mileage allowances, £4,148 ; oar hire, £194. (6) The Crown has a mortgage or charge over buildings erected on Native land-development schemes and dwellings erected under the Native Housing Acts. These buildings are all insured against fire, and this provision represents one-half of the war-damage premiums. (c) War-damage-insurance premiums, £12 ; fidelity-guarantco-insurance premiums, 7s. 6d. ; first-aid and fire-fighting equipment, £11 15s. sd. ; medical expenses of employee injured on public service, £1 Is. ; sundry field expenses, £4 12s. : total, £29 15s. lid. <s i • Ati, rn, ■fn^ E lo ed Estimated Recovered Salaries. Other Charges. 1942-43. 1941-42 1941-42 Total. £ £ £ £ £ (d) Credits-in-aid .. .. 20,400 3,300 23,700 24,000 23,204 Total .. .. 20,400 3,300 23,700 24,000 23,204

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Number % ° 1PerSOn9 - 1942-43. lUl ~^ 1942-431941-42 Voted. Expended. Miscellaneous services —continued. | Charges foe and incidental to — continued. £ £ £ Travelling allowances and expenses .. .. .. 11,500 11,150 (a) 11,706 War-damage insurance on land-development and housing schemes, State's proportion of . . . . . . (6)1,500 Water supplied by Ohinemuri County to Native settlements on the banks of the Ohinemuri River .. .. 50 50 50 Contingencies, includ.ng unforeseen expenditure incidental to the other items of the vote .. .. .. 11 5 (c) 30 Commission of Inquiry into East Coast Trust Lands, expenses of .. .. .. .. .. .. 250 83 Grant to officer to cover expenses on transfer from Greymouth to Whakatane .. .. .. .. .. 28 28 Hawke's Bay floods : Temporary accommodation for and permanent restoration of homes of Natives affected .. .. 50 Transfer to Native Trustee in aid of Special Housing Fund for erection of houses for indigent Natives .. .. .. 25,000 25,000 Estimated credits-in-aid under Section 51 of the Public Revenues Act, 1926 (see end of vote) — Administration expenses— £ Maori Land Boards .. .. .. 515 Native Trustee .. .. .. 2,060 Miscellaneous .. .. .. .. 725 3,300 j 265,400 349,200 327,029 Gross Total .. .. .. .. 366,300 452,300 430,773 .. .. .. .. 23,700 24,000 23,204 NET TOTAL 342,600 428,300 407,569