98

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Appropriations for Consolidated Fund Services.

CLASS XI.—CUSTOMS, MARINE AND HARBOURS, AND INSPECTION OF MACHINERY DEPARTMENTS— continued.

Item. « 1912-13. . MARINE AND HARBOURS— continued VOTE No. 69— continued. Other Charges incidental to — Acetone light for Bean Rock ... Advertising, books, and periodicals Boats and buildings and repairs Buoy-chain, stores, and oil Buoys and beacons, and gas for lights Clearing and fencing site, Harbourmaster's house, Karamea Cutting channel through Okarito Bar Formation of road to Manukau North Head Lights ... Iron buoys Maintenance of beacons and lights, Awakino River Nelson Signalmen Removal and destruction of logs, Hokianga Rent Snagging navigable rivers Supervision of beaches, Hauraki Gulf Telephones Travelling allowances and expenses Wages Contingencies, including unforeseen expenditure incidental to the other items of the vote ... £ £ 18 19 20 21 22 23 320 30 150 550 200 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 so : 30 50 300 20 20 50 120 50 100 40 75 j 400 ! 50 2,605 Lighthouses— Salaries — 30 Principal Keepers: 13 at £180, 5 at £170, 6 at £160, 4 at £150, 2 at £140 48 Assistant Keepers: 16 at £130,12 at £120, 6 at £110, 13 at £100, 1 at £50 Lighthouse expert Keepers at Castlepoint (8 months) 8,291 37 5,030 5 ,530 260 190 11,010 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 Other Charges for and incidental to — Boats for lighthouses, including repairs ... Books, magazines, and newspapers Carriage of mails Destroying rabbits on reserves Fencing Incandescent burners Keepers' station and travelling-allowances .. Lighting beacons in Helensville Creek Medical examinations and expenses Oil and stores Purchase and shoeing of horses and forage for same ... Repairs to lighthouses, dwellings, &c. Telephones Travelling allowances and expenses Wages of temporary keepers Contingencies, including unforeseen expenditure incidental to the other items of the vote ... 25 100 300 10 20 700 650 50 30 3,000 100 600 35 50 500 50 6 ,220 17 ,230