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Return showing the Total Ordinary Expenditure of the Marine Department during the Financial Year ended 31st March, 1900.

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Nature of Expenditure. ,ai] Is. Is. Irani Is. £ s. d. £ s. d. 1,085 3 10 £ s. d. 1,085 3 10 Salaries of Head Office Harbours: — Manukau, — Salaries Contingencies Report on channel at wharf Russell, — Contingencies Hokianga,— Salaries Contingencies Kaipara, — Salaries Subsidy to steamer for harbour-work Removal and re-erection of flagstaff Contingencies Mokau, — Salary Contingencies Opunake,— Salary Rangitikei,— Contingencies Foxton, — Salary Contingencies Mongonui,— Wharf repairs Whangarei,— Wharf repairs Tauranga,— Contingencies Wairau, — Salary Contingencies Havelock, — Contingencies Nelson, — Salaries Report on harbour Contingencies Motueka, — Salary Waitapu,— Salary Contingencies Collingwood, — Salary Contingencies Karamea, — Salary River stop-bank Contingencies Okarito, — Salary Contingencies Okuru, — Signalling and Contingencies Little Wanganui,— Signalling and Contingencies Waikawa, — Salary Waitangi (Chatham Islands), — Wharf improvement New buoys Chain, lamps, repairs to buoys, and sundries Pension of J. Heberly 426 0 0 80 19 4 22 16 6 529 15 10 32 12 8 274 0 0 37 2 5 311 2 5 415 2 2 340 0 0 229 16 10 48 19 7 « 1,033 18 7 37 10 0 3 10 6 41 0 6 25 0 0 0 16 9 190 0 0 33 12 2 223 12 2 50 0 0 100 0 0 6 14 4 145 0 0 27 9 7 172 9 7 36 1 3 480 0 0 105 0 0 174 11 1 759 11 1 10 0 0 25 0 0 50 10 0 75 10 0 30 0 0 17 0 3 47 0 3 40 0 0 100 0 0 49 2 3 189 2 3 35 0 0 74 18 8 109 18 8 85 17 10 28 18 3 15 0 0 25 10 5 497 9 9 348 14 9 86 18 11 4,737 16 3 Lighthouses: — Salaries of keepers Oil, inoluding freight and storage Stores and contingencies Keepers' travelling-expenses Lighthouse artificer Pension of widow of keeper Deck New light on Somes' Island 8,984 7 5 2,106 8 7 2,916 14 4 79 3 1 210 0 0 30 0 0 1,289 3 5 15,615 16 10