CO129-078 - Sir Robinson - 1860 [7-12] — Page 36

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any other item of Expenditure detailed in the

Estimates lain before Parliament.

6.

Take for example the

Year 1853/54 See Return

The actual Expenditure of the Colony

AVAI

£36, 418. Parliament voted lowards this

£9.200.

The balance £27, 218 was defrayed

local resources - The total Ex

annexed

from

Expenditure

of the

year

May

be

roughly

distributed as -

follows: -

Salaries

Public Works ann-

Police - Gacks and

Other charges

£20,000

16.418.

Total £36,418 -- " - -

The Salaries appear to have been about. equally divided between those who did

•

and those who did not pay superannuation

abatements. Under these circumstances, I

Confess

I cannot see why the £ 9.200 voted by Parliament should be deemed to have been

expended on Salaries, any

other item

more than

on

any

of Expenditure - ; but even supposing

there were some reason

grant

with salaries.

for connecting the

of which I may be ignorant,

it would seem then fully

as reasonable if not-

more so to set it off against the principal

Salaries on the list such as those of the ~ -Governor - Chief Justice - Attorney General -

-

and others amounting to £10,000 which were

- not liable to superannuation deductions, as

those smatter salaries also amounting

against

to £10,000 from which abatements were made