8.—7

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Appropriations for Consolidated Fund Services.

CLASS XIV.—DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE, COMMERCE, AND TOURISTS— continued.

.tern. 1911-12. AGRICULTURE AND COMMERCE— continued. 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 30 37 38 39 to 41 VOTE No. 77— continued. Live-stock and Meat Division —continued. Other Charges for and incidental to — Bicycles and repairs Compassionate allowance to widow of F. Laurenson, late caretaker Quarantine Station, for loss of husband, as recommended by the Agricultural Committee Expenses, Poultry Plucking and Grading Depots (now closed) Expenses of Veterinary Surgeou visiting Australia Experiments in connection with bush-sickness Extra clerical assistance Grant towards cost of printing report of New Zealand Poultry|Conference Grant to Utility Poultry Club Inoculation of calves for " black-leg " Inspection of dairies and cost of necessary apparatus connected therewith Inspection of manure-sterilizing: Labour, travelling, office, and other expenses, Australia and India Inspection of meat Legal expenses Passages of new Veterinarians from England Postage, telegrams, and rent of boxes Poultry Farms and Buildings (not attached to Experimental Farms), including Purchase of Birds and Material— Burnham Milton Quarantine-stations, Auckland, Wellington, and Lyttelton Quarantine Station, Auckland, painting and repairs ... Removal expenses Subscriptions and extensions to telephones, including bureau charges Testing stock and disposing of diseased cattle Travelling allowances and expenses Wages and Expenses in connection with Veterinary Laboratory, aud land aud buildings used in connection therewith, including the cost of investigation of diseases Contingencies, including unforeseen expenditure incidental to the Live-stock and Meat Division items of the vote £ £ loo 70 50 50 500 50 10 100 200 50 800 275 50 300 750 42 43 44 700 1,000 45 46 47 1 ,500 50 700 48 49 50 150 150 6,700 650 51 50 Fields and Experimental Faems Division — Salaries — Agriculturist, £800 (3 months) Director Assistant Director 5 Clerks: 1 at £245. 1 at £210, 1 at £190, 1 at £185, 1 at £120 6 Cadets: 1 at £105, 1 at £100, 1 at £95, 2 at £75,1 at £65 4 Fields Supervisors at £335 ... 2 Fields Instructors : 1 at £275, 1 at £250 61 Inspectors of Rabbits and Noxious Weeds : 1 at £325, 5 at £300, 2 at £290, 2 at £280, 2 at £265, 6 at £250, 2 at £240, 1 at £230, 7 at £210, 9 at £200, 18 at £190, 6 at £160 Caretaker of Rabbit Fence 5 Experimental Farm Managers : 1 at £250, 1 at £225, 1 at £200, 2 at £185 15 ,005 52 200 650 410 950 515 1,340 525 13 ,355 100 1,045