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STATEMENT in Detail of the EXPENDITURE for MISCELLANEOUS SERVICES— contd.

PUBLIC ACCOUNTS, 1896-97,

CLASS VI.—COMMISSIONER OF CUSTOMS :— Vote No. 38—Customs, Miscellaneous Services :— Item 1—Quarantine-keepers, Auckland, Wellington, Lyttelton, and Port Chalmers—Salaries, 1st April, 1895, to 31st March, 1896 .. Less recoveries £ s. d. £ s. d. £ s. d. 480 3 3 96 0 0 384 3 3 83 12 9 Item 2—Quarantine Stations—Contingencies 467 16 0 652 0 2 41 16 0 Item 3 —Bonus on exportation of canned and cured fish Item 4—Refund of Customs duty on tobacco-stalks destroyed Item 5—Refund of duty on monument to the late Dr. McGregor Item 6—Refund of duty on memorial window to late Bishop Harper Item 7—Refund of duty on memorial to late Dr. Stuart Item 8 —Refund of duty on memorial statue to the late John Ballance Item 9—Refund of duty on sundry articles remitted by order of the Commissioner of Customs Item 10—Refund of bonded warehouse duty 10 5 0 17 4 0 39 5 3 169 7 11 Total net expenditure, Vote No. 38 £1,397 14 4 Vote No. 40 —Marine, Miscellaneous Services: — Item 1—" Hinemoa " and " Tutanekai " working-expenses, — Wages Coals Provisions, &c Repairs, stores, &c 3,630 1 10 1,015 2 7 1,109 0 4 674 9 11 Less recoveries for rations, passage-money, &c .. .. Item 2—Balance of cost of new cable-steamer " Tutanekai," and expenses of bringing her out 6,428 14 8 241 4 0 6,187 10 8 29,609 6 10 Total net expenditure, Vote No. 40 £35,796 17 6 CLASS VIII.—MINISTER OF EDUCATION:— Vote No. 50—Miscellaneous Services :— Item 1—Grant to Whangarei High School 100 0 0 Total net expenditure, Vote No. 50 £100 0 0 CLASS IX.—MINISTER OF MINES :-- Vote No. 57—Miscellaneous Services:— Maintenance and Management of Water-races, — Item 1—Waimea-Kumara Item 2—Mount Ida Water-race Item 3—Schools of Mines— Salaries Travelling-expenses Subsidies, — Hokitika Nelson Otago Thames Waihi 2,627 3 1 1,391 19 2 87 10 0 14 14 0 4,019 2 3 2 0 0 15 9 9 1,000 0 0 150 0 0 193 17 8 1,861 7 5 100 0 0 69 2 0 49 6 0 Scholarships Advertising Contingencies 1,681 19 5 Item 4—Subsidy, £1 for £1, School of Mines, Matakanui Item 5—Expenses of Board of Examiners for mine-managers' certificates .. .. .. • • • • Item 6 —Compensation and expenses in connection with the resumption of land for water-races, and proclamation of rivers as watercourses for receiving tailings,— Compensation for land taken, &c Advertising Legal costs Travelling-expenses 4,025 0 0 16 3 9 57 15 0 26 0 7 136 10 3 4,124 19 4 150 0 0 Item 7 —Reward for discovery of gold at Preservation Inlet .. Item 8 —Refund of expenses in connection with the resumption of land under Mining Act, as recommended by the Waste Lands Committee, session 1894, on petition of Maniototo County Item 9—Payment to Samuel Alexander, on recommendation of Goldfields and Mines Committee 50 0 0 Carried forward 10,162 11 3