B—7 [Pt. I]

YEAR ENDING 31 MARCH, 1947

DEPARTMENT OF TOURIST AND HEALTH RESORTS—continued

(a) Overexpenditure covered by increased revenue. (b) Additional provision to meet increased business expected. (c) Damage to clothing, £4 55.; assistance rendered at fire, £5 55.; damage to fruit-trees, £2 10s. : total, £l2. (d) New water-supply required on reopening Chateau. (e) For erection of staff cottages at Mount Cook, Rotorua, and other resorts. (/) To enable new roads and tracks to be constructed.

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1946-47. 1945^6. VOTE—TOURIST AND HEALTH RESORTS —continued Voted. Expended. Subdivision No. I—-Tourists and Health Resorts —continued £ £ £ Charges for and incidental to —continued Waikaremoana : maintenance of Lake House, including furniture and repairs, and compensation to workmen, &c. Waimangu Round-trips and Hostel: wages, repairs, and sundry expenses Waitomo Caves and Hostel: maintenance (including furniture and repairs, and compensation to workmen, &c.) Contingencies Trade and Tourist Commissioner for New Zealand in Australia : representation allowance and entertaining-expenses (also Industries and Commerce, £318) 5,800 775 (6) 9,850 50 5,800 263 6,700 50 217 5,277 (a) 771 (a) 8,822 (c) 12 218 219,834 192,545 200,181 Total—Subdivision No. I 313,610 262,256 277,397 Subdivision No. II —Development of Tourist and Health Resorts Charges for and incidental to — Chateau Tongariro : water-supply Housing construction for staff at tourist resorts New buildings and improvements at Mount Cook, Te Anau, Milford Sound, and Queenstown and other tourist resorts administered 'by Department New tourist roads and tracks : construction and grants towards (d) 4,000 (e) 5,000 10,000 (/)1,000 150 10,000 6,728