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Return showing the Total Ordinary Expenditure of the Marine and Inspection of Machinery Department, etc. — continued.

Nature of Expenditure. Details. Totals. Grand Totals. Meteorological Office— continued. Printing and stationery Rent, office equipment, &,e. Repairs to instruments Telephones Weather messages by wireless Purchase of instruments Contingencies £ s. d. 128 17 1 144 2 6 1. 4 0 49 16 9 100 0 0 69 18 3 9 14 3 £ s. d. £ s d, 3,158 0 8 Mercantile Marine Offices : — Salaries Cleaning offices Office equipment and rent Maintaining launch for Wellington surveyors Telephones Travelling allowances and expenses Contingencies 5,682 15 3 14 7 0 243 14 10 172 5 0 106 12 5 143 0 I 11 5 3 Inspection of Machinery and Survey of Ships : — Salaries Advertising, books and periodicals Collection of inspection fees Rent, cleaning offices, &c. Telephones Travelling allowances and expenses Contingencies 6,373 19 10 10,479 16 10 41 4 6 150 0 0 HI 3 6 103 8 I 3,358 10 4 72 17 0 Protection of fish and oysters :— Salaries Benzine, oil, stores, &c. Casual labour Collection and distribution of brown-trout ova.. Hakataramoa salmon-hatchery Grant for maintenance of fish-hatchery at Portobello Picking and sale of oysters Planting oysters in Hauraki Gulf Stocking a Westland and other rivers with salmon Subsidy to Portobello Fish-hatchery for research work (£lfor£I) Travelling allowances ami expenses Contingencies 14,317 0 3 1,571 I'l II 379 6 3 180 5 10 116 18 8 67 0 7 500 0 0 4,111 10 3 30 1.4 4 547 I 6 35 0 0 392 13 11 29 3 9 58,783 9 4 7,961 7 0 Ijoss miscellaneous credits 59,439 15 5 656 6 1 Government steamers : — Special payment to R. Duncan, Chief Surveyor of Ships, for preparing plans and specifications of now steamer S.s. " Hinemoa " .. Training-ship " Aniokura " .. 50 tl 0 .11,146 10 3 9,395 0 2 Miscellaneous services :-- Administration of the Shipping and Seamen Act, and inquiries into shipping casualties.. Antarctic ship "Aurora," repairs, &c. Jackson's Head beacon and Waitapu leading-lights Carriage and freight Checking overcrowding on steamers Compensation to Pitcaithly and Co. Contribution to New Zealand Sailors' Room, England . . Piako River leading-lights Expenses connected with examinations Extra clerical assistance Fog-signals, cartridges, and maintenance Gas and fuel for offices .. " New Zealand Nautical Almanac " .. Office equipment Postage, telegrams, rent of boxes Preparation of tide-tables Printing and stationery Relief of distressed seamen Relief of distressed New Zealand seamen in United Kingdom Remission dues tug " Dunedin " Subsidy for Whangaparapara East Wharf Superannuation of R. C. Hunter, injured on " Tutanekai " Survey of unseaworthy ships Survey of site for fishermen's landing-place, Waikanae .. Telephones Travelling allowances and expenses Contingencies Prosecutions under Shipping, Harbours, and Fisheries Act i Refund wages (A. McDonald) 20,591 10 5 293 6 6 21,377 2 7 76 0 9 79 I 6 384 7 3 500 0 0 1,7 17 0 36 18 1 6 3 3 210 1 10 143 12 7 19 19 4 305 5 10 33 0 0 1,127 0 11 550 0 0 851 13 9 120 17 4 45 15 2 2 7 3 150 0 0 90 0 0 2 2 0 22 18 6 54 10 0 25 13 9 54 3 7 19 11 3 2 17 3 Less credits 26,602 7 3 159 0 4 26,443 6 11 Grand total .. .V £105,818 6 8