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DETAILS OF ESTIMATES FOR THE

MARINE DEPARTMENT—continued

(a) Extra cost due to hire of vessel whilst Government launch being purchased and equipped. (b) Increased rate of overtime. (c) Final quarter's subsidy not yet brought to charge. (d) Publication reorganized to assist paper-conservation. (e) Increase in staff drawing overtime. (f) Cost of extra cables re British seamen. ((/) Department now School of Navigation. Previously carried on by Captain Keane. (h) Recoverable from owners of vessels undergoing repairs. («) Additional nautical inquiries. (j) Number of officers, 14. Travelling-allowances, £178 ; motor hire, £58 ; rail and boat fares, &c., £89. (It) Proportion charges removing waste paper for pulp, £9. (I) Satisfactory service now being maintained without subsidy. (to) Additional cost of preparing vessel for Stewart Island ferry service.

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Number of Persons. 1944-45. 1943-44. 1944-451943-44 VOTE—MARINE—continued Voted . Expended. Subdivision No. IV. —Mercantile Marine £ £ £ Salaries— 43 29 43 (£10 to £765) .. .. .. .. .. 16,959 11,940 Allowances to officers under Public Service Regulations 24a I f9 and 209 .. .. .. 150 10 f 13 ' 650 Cost-of-living allowances .. .. .. .. 743 435 Overall allowances .. .. .. .. .. 20 25 17,872 12,410 13,650 Other Charges for and incidental to— Advertising, photographs, books, newspapers, and other publications .. .. .. .. .. 100 100 108 Bluff - Stewart Island Ferry Service .. .. .. 1,000 1,000 («) 2,562 Charts (recoverable) .. .. .. .. .. 2,000 2,200 1,331 Checking passenger traffic: Overtime .. .. .. 900 250 (b) 840 Distressed seamen, maintenance and repatriation of .. 100 50 200 Examinations, expenses connected with .. .. 300 250 325 Great Barrier Island: Shipping subsidy .. .. 1,000 1,000 (c)750 Motor-vehicles— Maintenance of .. .. .. .. 150 100 Purchase of .. .. .. .. .. 200 250 " New Zealand Nautical Almanac " and preparation of Tidetables (part recoverable) .. .. .. .. 400 800 (d) 299 Office fittings and requisites .. .. .. .. 100 100 102 Overtime and meal allowances .. .. .. 1,200 800 (e) 1,022 Payment to Post and Telegraph Department: Wireless inspection of ships .. .. .. .. 50 50 50 Postage, telegrams, and rent of boxes .. .. .. 350 150 (f)327 Printing and stationery .. .. .. .. 250 180 252 Prosecutions under Shipping and Seamen Act .. .. 10 10 9 Removal of offices .. .. .. .. .. 10 225 223 Rent, fuel, light, power, water, and cleaning .. .. 800 800 780 Saleable books and forms (recoverable) .. .. 200 200 163 School of Navigation : Purchase of equipment and maintenance .. .. .. .. .. (g) 1,050 Ship repairs, costing service, expenses of .. .. (h) 250 Shipping and Seamen Act; Miscellaneous expenses of administration .. .. .. .. .. 10 10 16 Shipping casualties: Inquiries, &c. .. .. .. 50 50 (i) 344 Telephone services (including installation, extensions,, maintenance, rent, and calls) .. .. .. 250 200 254 Transfer and removal expenses .. .. .. 120 20 49 Travelling allowances and expenses .. .. .. 200 100 (j) 325 Contingencies, including unforeseen expenditure incidental to the other items of this subdivision.. .. .. 10 10 (Ic) 9 Chatham Island shipping service: Subsidy .. 1,200 (I) 131 S.s. " Orewa Alterations and repairs to .. .. .. .. .. 1,000 (m)2,037 Purchase of .. .. .. .. .. .. 3,000 3,000