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Appropriations for Consolidated Fund Services

MARINE AND HARBOURS AND INSPECTION OF MACHINERY DEPARTMENT— continued.

Number of Persons. Item. I VOTE No. 32—MARINE DEPARTMENT— continued. 192 i-24. 1923-24. Subdivision No. VIII — Government Steamers —contd. £ £ 114 114 115 116 Charges for and incidental to — Expenses connected with training-ship " Amokura " Working-expenses of lighthouse and harbour vessels, including wages, maintenance, repairs, replacements, and other expenses incidental to their upkeep— Working-expenses and Repairs— S.s. " Hinemoa " S.s. "Tutanekai" 10 115 116 I 20,000 20,010 Less estimated credits under Section 48 of the Public Revenues Act, 1910— Freight and passage-money 20,725 500 Total — Subdivision No. VIII 20,22 Subdivision No. IX. — Miscellaneous Services. 117 118 119 120 121 122 123 124 125 126 127 117 118 119 120 121 122 123 124 125 126 127 128 129 130 Charges for and incidental to — Allowances to officers performing special or higher duties Beacons, buoys, and lights at— Waitapu, leading-lights Charts, saleable books, and forms (recoverable) Checking overcrowding of steamers Contribution towards New Zealand's Sailors' Room, England Maintenance of castaway depots Maintenance of leading-lights, Piako River New Zealand Nautical Almanac (part recoverable) ... Relief of distressed seamen ... Repairs to Beacon, Jackson's Head Star Reduction and Azimuth Tables (Blackburne), (recoverable) Tide-tables, preparation of (Lands Department) War medals and ribands for crews of mercantile marine vessels Contingencies, including unforeseen expenditure incidental to the other items of this subdivision 10 110 600 400 25 50 75 500 50 250 128 129 1,000 550 130 100 20 Less estimated credits under Section 48 of the Public Revenues Act, 1910— £ Sales: Nautical Almanac ... 300 Charts, kc. ... ... 300 Star Reduction and Azimuth Tables (portion recoverable this year) ... 250 3,740 850 Total — Subdivision No. IX 2,890 I TOTAL—VOTE No. 32 ... 122,997 TOT TO DAL £122,997