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YEAR ENDING 31 MARCH, 1944.

STATE COAL-MINES ACCOUNT—continued.

(а) Number of officers, 20. Travelling-allowances, £229 ; travelling-expenses, £290 ; mileage allowances, £168. Estimated. Estimated. Recovered. 1943-44. 1942-43. 1942-43. (б) Credits-in-aid .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 3,300 3,100 3,230 Totals .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 3,300 3,100 3,239

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Number ofFersons - 1943-44. 1942-43. 1943 441942-43 VOTE—STATE COAL-MINES continued. Voted. Expended. Other Charges for and incidental to —continued. £ £ £ Housing— Advances to workmen and officials for erection and purchase of dwellings .. .. .. .. 12,000 15,000 8,830 Erection of departmental dwellings and hutments .. 45,000 78,500 55,220 Purchase of residence and additions thereto for departmental officer .. .. .. .. .. 200 200 Loan to enable purchase of bus for conveyance of workmen 1,250 2,500 1,135 Overtime and meal allowances .. .. .. 750 200 804 Postage, telegrams, and rent of boxes .. .. .. 500 500 227 Printing and stationery and publications, &c. .. .. 450 450 222 Prospecting and boring on State coal reserve .. .. 1,500 1,500 2,390 Prospecting and boring on Smoke-oh Creek area at Blackball 5,515 5,515 30 Public Service Superannuation Fund contribution .. 130 130 125 Refund., Mines Department, part expenses, Runanga School of Mines .. .. .. .. .. .. 45 45 45 Social amenities at State mines .. .. .. 850 850 475 Telephone services (including rent, installation, extensions, maintenance, and toll calls) .. .. .. .. 1,000 1,000 788 Transfer and removal expenses of officers .. .. 500 200 483 Travelling allowances and expenses and milage allowances 600 500 (a) 687 Contingencies (including unforeseen expenditure incidental to the other items of the vote) .. .. .. 10 10 Acquisition of coal-bearing land in the Waikato .. .. .. 9,845 Collieries— Development and other capital expenditure— Blackball Colliery : Purchase of colliery .. .. .. 1,500 1,556 Mangapehi Colliery: Purchase price .. .. .. 25 Tatu Colliery: Purchase price .. .. .. .. 25 Depot— Capital expenditure —Christchurch Depot: Purchase of land .. 200 Donation to Wellington Provincial Patriotic Fund .. .. 100 100 Erection and furnishing of boardinghouse at Dunollie .. .. 9,000 Purchase of motor-car (Blackball) .. .. .. .. 175 175 Estimated credits-in-aid under Section 51 of the Public Revenues Act, 1926 (see end of vote)— £ Fares and expenses of miners to take up employment .. .. .. 50 Return of deposits .. .. .. 100 Sale of plant, railway tickets, &c. .. 3,000 Miscellaneous .. .. .. .. 150 3,300 1,039,124 857,204 824,122 GROSS TOTAL .. .. .. .. 1,064,624 880,244 848,952 Credits-IN-AID (6) .. .. .. .. 3,300 3,100 3,239 NET TOTAL 1,061,324 877,144 845,713 1