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PUBLIC ACCOUNTS, 1908-1909.

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

Brought forward £ s. d. £ b. d. £ 3. d. 4,785 3 9 CLASS XVIII.—CUSTOMS DEPARTMENT— continued. Vote No. 65—Miscellaneous Services— continued. Item 33—Refund of duty on Btained-glass window in memory of Bishop Pompallier, Auokland Item 34—Refund of duty on trophy presented to the Auokland Yaoht Squadron Item 35—Refund of duty on trophies presented to New Zealand Curling Association for competition Items 36-42 —Refunds of Chinese poll-tax on former residents of the Dominion Item 43—To cover cost of inquiry held under the Agricultural Implements Manufacture, Importation, and Sale Acts, 1905, 1906, 1907 13 4 0 17 2 0 10 0 600 0 0 5,416 9 9 Less cost of collecting Customs duties on aocount of Cook and other Islands recovered and credited hereto 21 5 6 Total net expenditure, Vote No. 65 .. £5,395 4 3 CLASS XIX.—MINISTER OF MARINE :— Vote No. 68—Miscellaneous Services :— Item 1—Administration of the Shipping and Seamen Aot, and inquiries into shipping casualties Beacons, buoys, and lights at — Item 2—Half-moon Bay Item 3—Inner Passage, Katikati Item 4—Jackson's Head Item 5—Kaipara Harbour Item 6—Waitapu, leading-lights Item 7—WeBt Wanganui Inlet Item 8—Cartage and freight Item 9—Charts, books, and periodicals Item 10 —Cheoking overcrowding of steamers Item 11—Deepening creek, Okarito Item 12—Erection of light on Anglem Point, Stewart Island .. Item 13—Extra clerioal assistance Item 14—Fog-signals, cartridges, and maintenance Item 15 —Gas and fuel for offices Item 16—Matakohe Wharf repairs Item 17 —Repairing and improving the Waipipi Wharf, Manukau Item 18—Shipwreok Relief Society Item 19 —Towards cost of repairing wharf, Half-moon Bay, Stewart Island Item 20 —Horseshoe Bay Wharf and protection Item 21—Improving entrance, Kaituna River Item 22—Jetty and shed, north bank, Okuru Item 23—Lithographing forms Item 24—Maintenance of Anglem Point Light (3 months) Item 25—Napier West Shore protective works Item 26—" New Zealand Nautioal Almanao " Item 27 —Office equipment Item 28—Passage to England of Mrs. E. Mclntyre (widow of engineer, " Tutanekai ") and ohildren Item 29—Port Waikato Wharf Item 30—Prosecutions under the Shipping and Seamen, Harbours, and Fisheries Acts Item 31—Postages and telegrams and rent of letter-boxes Item 32—Printing and binding ABC Azimuth Tables and charts Item 33—Railway fares of Royal Naval Registrar Item 34—Relief of distressed seamen Item 35—Remission of light dues on colliers to American Fleet Item 36—Removal of rocks from harbour at Port Chalmers .. Item 37—Rent and expenses oonneoted with examinations .. 617 14 0 30 0 0 64 18 3 105 14 9 50 0 0 75 8 5 87 1 0 361 4 0 30 0 0 81 9 11 71 10 0 361 13 5 14 5 3 250" 0 0 1 10 0 19 12 6 250 0 0 195 18 0 49 4 9 50 0 0 93 1 4 504 13 6 252 6 7 172" 16 4 280 2 8 79' 0 10 Carried forward 4,149 5 6