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Appropriations for Consolidated Fund Services

DEPARTMENT OF INTERNAL AFFAIRS -continued.

Number if Persons. # Item. VOTE No. 23.—DEPAETMENT OF INTERNAL AFF AIR S— continued. 1923-24. 1923-24. Subdivision No. X. — Miscellaneous Services —continued. Charges for and incidental to—continued. 149 150 151 152 153 154 155 156 General —continued. Cost of— Annotating statutes for Government Departments Entertaining visitors to the Dominion and of official functions Cost-of-living bonus to annuitants under the Public Service, Railways, and Teachers' Superannuation Funds and Civil Service Act, 1908, and to other persons in receipt of retiring-allowances Fire Hose : Purchased on account of Fire Brigades (recoverable) Grants in settlement of petitions Grants— Imperial Institute New Zealand Amateur Swimming Association Pan-Pacific Science Congress, Sydney and Melbourne, towards expenses of Government representatives attending Re-erecting memorial to late Sir John McKenzie Royal Life Saving Society St. John Ambulance Association To C. Chapman for special services in Huarau floods To cover cost of visit to Rarotonga of— Hon. Minister in Charge of Cook £ Islands ... ... 50 Private Secretary ... ... 20 225 750 34,000 1,000 850 1,000 100 157 158 159 160 105 500 50 400 50 161 162 163 Veterans' Home, Auckland History of New Zealand Wars: Cost' of printing Volume II (recoverable) New Zealand Gazette: Cost of printing (part recoverable) New Zealand Returned Soldiers' Association : Grant towards cost of representative attending the Empire Conference of the British Empire Service League, London Official History of the visit of H.R.H. the Prince of Wales to New Zealand, cost of printing and publication of Opossums : Expenses under Animals Protection Act Parliaments of the Empire : Contribution towards cost of producing journal (London publication) ... Pouto Point Bird Sanctuary, checking sand-drift, work in connection with ... Preservation of aboriginal rock paintings Returned Soldiers' Association Conference: Rail fares of delegates Reuter's Telegram Company: Payment for special telegrams Stephen's Island, protection of bush on... Stores Control Board, expenses of Stranded New-Zealanders : Assistance to return to New Zealand Subsidies towards— Cost of renovating Maori War-time Historical Church at Russell (£1 for £1) Dominion Boy Scouts' Association (£1 for £1 up to £1,000) 70 200 164 550 165 12,000 250 166 350 250 167 168 169 200 170 171 100 30 172 65 173 174 175 500 50 300 100 176 50 177 1,000 * Includes cost-of-living increase to scale salaries or wages.