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Appropriations for Consolidated Fund Services.

CLASS XXI.—DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE— continued.

iem. MISCELLANEOUS SERVICES— continued. 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 VOTE No. 69— continued. Experimental and Stud and Fruit, Farms : Workingexpenses, Buildings, Purchase of Stock, and Entertainment of Visitors — Bickerstaffe ... ... £2,400 Weraroa ... 4,000 Momahaki ... ... 2,000 Momahaki: Section 12a, Village Settlement, working-expenses ... ... 300 Ruakura(Waikato) ... ... 5,300 Sundry small stations ... ... 200 Waerenga ... ... 4,000 Waerenga : Establishing and maintaining vineyard and erection of buildings ... 600 Arataki : Establishing and maintaining vineyard, erection of buildings, &c. ... ' 600 Tauranga experimental fruit station ... 500 Allowance for improvements, Sections 3a and 4a, Momohaki Village Settlement 100 Expenses stud horses and cattle, wages and expenses of attendants, feeding, travelling, advertising, &c. Expenses in connection with residences, buildings, fences, &c, on departmental reserves, and generally improving same 20,000 32 33 34 35 36 2,500 37 38 39 Expenses Analytical Laboratory Expenses Biological Laboratory Expenses in connection with preparation and distribution of publications Expenses in connection with Veterinary Laboratory, Wallaceville and others Expenses in carrving out test re eradication of noxious weeds in connection with bonus of £500 offered Expenses : Inspection of New Zealand dairy-produce on arrival in United Kingdom ... Expenses fostering bee industry including wages and travelling-expenses Expenses in connection with demonstrations in fruit culture and canning, &c. Expenses of sending Pomologist to California for codlin-moth parasites, cost of buildings, heating apparatus, furniture for breeding-place, workingexpenses, maintenance, and labour Freights and carriage Fumigation of fruit and other expenses Hemp Industry— Grading of hemp : Labour, travelling, and other expenses Expenses in connection with the cultivation of New Zealand flax Inoculation of calves for "black-leg " (vaccine, travelling, and other expenses) Inspection of imported bones and manures Inspection of dairies and noxious weeds: Wages and expenses in connection with destruction of noxious weeds Inspection of manure-sterilising: Labour, travelling, office, and other expenses, Australia and India International Exhibition, Christchurch— Expenses in connection with preparation of ground, erection of apiary, purchase of bees, also of hives and painting same, freights and carriage of appliances, wages of attendants, furnishing, lining, and painting of building, fittings and show cases, and cost of space ... 500 400 300 40 500 41 1,000 42 -50 43 250 44 250 100 45 46 47 430 50 100 IS 1,300 1:9 :,0 250 51 52 400 390 6,000 53 600 r,i 4,000