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Appropriations for Consolidated Fund Services.

DEPARTMENT OF LANDS AND SURVEY -continued.

Number if Persons. Item. 1923-24. 1923-24. VOTE No. 34.—DEPARTMENT OF LANDS AND SURVEY— continued. Subdivision No. II. — Miscellaneous Services. £ £ 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 43 44 45 46 47 4b Charges for and incidental to — Cemeteries — Fencing, forming, and improving cemeteries Compensation to— Hastings Volunteer Fire Brigade for improvements effected and surrender of lease of Section 74, Town of Hastings Crown Lands Ranger, Invercargill, for loss of personal effects in a fire at Mossburu Hotel, while travelling on Departmental business Compensation for— Injuries to employees while in discharge of their duties, medical and other attendance during illness, and contingent expenses in connection with same Land resumed under the Land Act, 1908, for scenery and other public purposes ... Native land wrongfully sold by the Crown in the belief that same was Crown land— Sections 7 and 8, Parish of Komakorau Crown lands draining, &c. (general) Destruction of rabbits on Crown lands : Wages and other expenses Destruction of wild pigs, Whangainomona Counts- ... Exchange of Crown lands for private lands, equality of Expenses of inquiries Expenses in connection with the establishment of the (lisborne Land District Fees to examiners, draughtsmen's examinations Grants— Board of Examiners of Surveyors Royal Geographical Society, England Tongariro National Park Board Winton Borough Reserve, Southland ... Grass-seed for Crown lands ... Kapiti Island— Expenses of supervision and maintenance of oillaunch Fencing and improvements Kea suppression, contribution to Department of Agriculture towards cost of Lake Takapuna Board, expenses of Matata-Wliakatane Road : Bridges across Rangitaiki and Tarawera Rivers (on account of £2,000) Money stolen from office of Chief Draughtsman Noxious weeds on Crown land, eradication of Payment to Rangitikei County Council of portion of revenue from sale of timber on Sections 19 and 20, Block IV, and Sections 12, 14, 15, 16, and 18, Block VIII, Hautapu Survey District— Omatane Forest Payment of capital value of land to be acquired in lieu of post-office site (Wainui Domain) Payment of legal expenses incurred determining ownership of certain stream-beds in Saitaia District Protective Works— Clarence River stock reserve Erection of river-protective works to protect adjoining lands (including supply of wire to settlers)... Preventing encroachment of rivers on Crown re50 100 50 150 50 6,000 83 25 20 200 10 250 10 250 50 750 100 17 61 200 200 62 63 64 65 700 000 66 67 68 785 37 1,500 500 69 50 70 27 71 72 400 100 73 50 70 74 serves Small Grazing-run 102c ...