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Appropriations for Public Works Services.

CLASS XXXVIII.—CONTINGENT DEFENCE.

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1906-7. £ 35,850 Vote No. 112.—Contingent Defence Item. £ MINISTER OF DEFENCE. 5 6 1 2 3 4 VOTE No. 112. Contingent Defence — Arms and spare parts Accoutrements, water-bottles, overcoats, bandoliers, haversacks, &c. Camp equipment, ambulance wagons, waterproof sheets Drillsheds, mobilisation stores and gunsheds, barrack-rooms, magazines, &c. (erection and additions to) Q.F. guns, mountings, and spare parts (including work done in ordnance-factory) Signalling equipment, also equipment for Field Engineer Volunteers Miscellaneous submarine-miningand ordnance stores Ordnance ammunition Rifle ranges (including purchase of land) Defence Storekeeper's residence, Wellington Explosives Magazine, Greymouth (land and building) Searchlight plant Shipping charges, freight, insurance, &c. Trentham Rifle Range (improvements) Contingencies ... 6,000 500 2,000 11,603 6,500 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 100 4,500 15,500 6,793 10 800 10 1,000 850 50 Less estimated credits under section 41 of "The Public Revenues Act, 1891 " 56,216 35,850 3,566 Total required for current year —Vote No. 112 52,650 TOTAL CLASS XXXVIII ;35,850