89

B—7

Appropriations for Consolidated Fund Services.

MINES DEPARTMENT— continued.

12— B. 7.

Number of Persons. Item. VOTE No. 22.—MINES DEPARTMENT-cowfi«_e„. 192 1-24. 1923-24. Subdivision No II. — Geological Survey Branch — continued. £ 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 15 16 17 Other Charges for and incidental to—continued. Printing and stationery Rents and rates ... Telephone services (including installation, extensions, maintenance, rent, and calls) Travelling allowances and expenses Tools anel field equipment Wages of field hands Contingencies, including unforeseen expenditure incidental to the other items of this subdivision 30 226 IS 19 20 21 25 400 150 *800 20 Total — Subdivision No. II 3,531 7,426 Subdivision No. III. — Miscellaneous Services. 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 22 Charges for and incidental to — Advertising, photographs, books, newspapers, and other publications Assistance towards— Ambulance classes Experiments in connection with inflammability of coal-dust Maintenance of roads and works Prospecting Cost of collecting goldfields revenue Diamond and other drills and appliances (workingexpenses only), (partly recoverable) ... Examinations, Mining and Coal-mines Acts Expert and temporary assistance, fees, wages, &c. Freight, cartage, anel transport charges ... Fuel, light, water, and cleaning Grants — Libraries in mining townships Mine-water flooding, Thames Water-race repairs, Thames Borough Council Instruments anel apparatus ... Instrument and outfit allowances for Inspectors of Mines and repairs and maintenance instruments... Law-costs Maintenance of Water-races — Waimea-Kumara Mount Ida Motor-cars (maintenance) ... Office fittings and requisites (including typewriters) Postage, telegrams, and rent of boxes ... Printing and stationery Purchase of plant for experiments in connection with the low-temperature distillation of coal Rents Schools of Mines Telephone services (including installation, extensions, maintenance, rent, and calls) 70 25 200 2,000 10,000 150 800 100 260 50 90 100 404 450 10 210 150 300 80 250 100 350 500 250 551 4,000 180 * Includes cost-of-living increase to scale salaries or wages.