8.—7 [PT. I]

DETAILS OF ESTIMATES FOR THE

MARINE DEPARTMENT—continued.

(а) Additional stocks of charts and increased cost of same. To be offset by increased credits. (б) Offices transferred to private buildings. _ (c) Number of officers, 14. Travelling-allowance, £54 ; motor hire, £3 ; rail and boat tares, &c., £07. (d) Establishment of legal procedure, £5.

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Number 1942-43. ol Persons. 1943 44 7ll43~Vl l!.ll 2 43 VOTE —MARINE —continued. Voted. Expended. Subdivision No. IV. —Mercantile Marine. £ £ £ Salaries — 29 30 29 (£10 to £765) .. •• •• 11,940 11,955 Allowances to officers performing special or higher duties ? 12,431 under Public Service Regulations 24a and 209.. .. 10 10 Cost-of-living allowances .. .. • • • • 435 383 Overall allowances .. .. .. • • • • 25 20 12,410 12,368 12,431 Other Charges for and incidental to— — Advertising, photographs, books, newspapers, and other publications .. •. • • • • ■ • ' 00 120 69 Bluff - Stewart Island Ferry Service .. .. .. 1,000 1,100 1,167 Charts (recoverable) .. .. ■ ■ • • • • 2,200 1,000 (a) 3,357 Chatham Island shipping service: Subsidy 1,200 1,2 k° o Checking passenger traffic: Overtime .. .. •. 250 250 344 Distressed seamen, maintenance and repatriation of .. 50 50 96 Examinations, expenses connected with .. . . 250 250 195 Great Barrier Island: Shipping subsidy .. .. 1,000 1,000 1,250 " New Zealand Nautical Almanac " and preparation of TideI tables (part recoverable) .. .. ■ ■ • • 800 800 863 Office fittings and requisites .. .. • . . ■ 100 lo0 loo Overtime and meal allowances . . .. . ■ 800 750 878 Payment to Post and Telegraph Department: Wireless inspection of ships .. .. ■■ •• 50 50 50 Postage, telegrams, and rent of boxes .. .. • • 150 150 215 Printing and stationery .. .. ■ ■ ■ • 180 230 176 Prosecutions under Shipping and Seamen Act .. .. 10 10 2 Removal of offices .. .. ••• 100 100 . . Rent, fuel, light, power, water, and cleaning . . .. 800 550 (6) 701 Saleable books and forms (recoverable) .. .200 190 2o7 Shipping and Seamen Act; Miscellaneous expenses of administration .. .. • • • • • • 10 10 42 Shipping casualties: Inquiries, &c. .. , .. • 50 150 10J Telephone services (including installation, extensions, maintenance, rent, and calls) .. .. .. 200 260 193 Transfer and removal expenses .. .. • • 20 200 275 Travelling allowances and expenses .. .. - - 100 100 (c) 114 Contingencies, including unforeseen expenditure incidental to the other items of this subdivision.. .. .. 10 10 (a) 5 Estimated credits-in-aid under Section 51 of the Public Revenues Act, 1926 (see end of vote)— Shipping subsidies — £ Chatham Islands .. .. • • 250 Great Barrier Island .. .. .. 300 Charts .. • ■ • ■ • • 1 > 500 Nautical Almanac .. .. ■ ■ 200 Overtime, Nautical Surveyors, &c. .. 700 Refunds of costs of nautical inquiries .. 10 Saleable books and forms .. . • 540 Miscellaneous .. .. • • • • 100 3,600 i 9,630 8,680 11,414 j Total —Subdivision No. IV . . . 22,040 21,048 23,845