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Appropriations for Consolidated Fund Services.

CLASS XXI.—DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE— continued.

,em. 1906-7. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE— continued. VOTE No. 68— continued. Salaries — continued. Head Office —continued. 4 Dairv Instructors: 1 (Chief) at £550, 1 at £375. 1 at £350, I at £325 Dairy Instructress 5 Dairy Instructors and Graders: 1 at £300, 1 at £275, 2 at £250, 1 at £235 5 Dairy-produce Graders : 2 at £300, 1 at £275, 1 at £230, 1 at £225 (6 months)... Clerk (Dairy Commissioner's Office) Inspector of New Zealand Dairy Produce (Great Britain), 6 months at £400 Chief Fibre Expert 5 Hemp Graders : 2 at £265, 2 at £255, 1 at £235 ... Instructors and Graders (1 at £235, 1 at £225) Clerk to Chief Fibre Expert ... ... . Poultry Expert Assistant Poultry Expert Editor of Publications (6 months at £250) Compiler of Statistics Inspector of Slock (relieving) . Superintendent of Ruakuraand Waerenga Experimental Farms (also Chief Inspector of Stock, £500) 3 Nurserymen : 1 at £185, 1 at £160, 1. at £130 Farm Overseer 2 Caretakers, Quarantine Islands : 1 at £140, 1 at £130 Messenger £ 1,600 125 1,310 1,218 190 200 300 1,275 400 156 300 170 125 235 255 65 475 200 270 156 Auckland District — 9 Inspectors: 1 at £325, 3 at £280. 1 at £270, 2 at £260, 1 at £250, I at £225 . 5 Clerks: 1 at £210, 1 at £166, 3 at £156 2 Cadets at £65 Fruit Inspector 3 Rabbit Agents: 2 at £190, 1 at £175 ... Caretaker, Agricultural Offices 33,162 2 2,430 844 130 200 555 88 Napier District — 8 Inspectors: 1 (in charge) at £325, 1 at £280, 4 at £270, 1 at £260, 1 at £225 Clerk Clerk 3 Rabbit Agents: 1 at £190, 1 at £166, I at £156 ... 4,247 3 2,170 200 145 512 Wellington - West Coast District — 12 Inspectors: 1 at £325, 1 at £310. 5 at £280, 2 at £270, 2 at £265, 1 at £225 ... 4 Clerks : 1 at £210, 1 at £190, I at £185,1 at £156 ... Cadet 7 Rabbit Agents : 5 at £190, 1 at £188 (5 months) 1 at £175 3,027 3,330 741 75 1,205 Marlborough, Nelson, and West Coast District — 5 Inspectors : 1 (in charge) at £330, 1 at £300,1 at £290. 1 at £260, 1 at £250 3 Clerks: 1 at £175, 2 at £156 2 Rabbit Agents: 1 at £190, 1 at £180 ... 5,351 5 1,430 487 370 2,287