8.—7

143

Appropriations for Consolidated Fund Services.

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

Item. 1917-18.-AGRICULTURE, INDUSTRIES, AND COMMERCE— continued. 'JO 91 92 93 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 VOTE No. 72— continued. Fields Division— continued. Other Charges for and incidental to —continued. Experimental and plants for distribution Extra clerical assistance Grading grain Grading New Zealand hemp Grant to Bainham Farmers' Union towards construction of special road to lime-works Grant towards expenses Canterbury Seedgrowers' Association Growing wheat on land at Poukawa, lent by Mr. H. M. Campbell Guarantee to vendors supplying farmers with seed wheat or fertilizers, and purchase of agricultural tractors for sale to farmers (on account) Investigation of montane tussock land, South Island Legal expenses Purchase of seed, wheat, and manures ... Purchase of stud stock, including expenses of importation Purchase of threshing-machines for sale or hire to farmers in connection with wheat-growing (on account) Removal expenses Subscriptions and extensions to telephones, including bureau charges Subsidies to local bodies for the destruction of the kea Subsidy to model dairy farm and experimental area, Stratford Travelling-allowances and expenses Travelling expenses of J. Duncan, Assistant Director, visiting Australia Wages and Expenses in connection with Destruction of Noxious Weeds— £ Wages ... ... 250 Other expenses ... ... 100 £ £ 50 50 100 50 100 100 800 100 500 50 500 94 500 100 500 95 96 97 98 150 50 99 .00 300 10,500 78 .01 Contingencies, including unforeseen expenditure incidental to the Fields Division items of the vote 350 .02 50 Horticulture Division — Salaries — 61,057 .03 Professional Division. Class A — 1 at £600 Glass D— 1 at £380 600 380 Clerical Division. Class V— 1 at £275 Class VII— £ 1 at £210 ... ... 210 1 at £190 ... ... 190 1 at £180 ... ... 180 1 at £135 ... ... 135 Class VIII— 1 at £88 275 715 88 General Division. 1 at £320 ... ... 320 1 at £315 ... ... 315 1 at £313 ... ... 313