93

8.—7

Appropriations for Consolidated Fund Services.

MINES DEPARTMENT—continued.

(a) Credits-in-aid: — . Other Salaries. Charges. 1926-27. £ £ £ Subdivision I 250 .. 250 II 200 370 570 111 .. 620 620 Totals .. 450 990 1,440

Number Item 1 OOfi 07 Of Persons. VOTE No. 21—MINES DEPARTMENT —continued. 1926-27. Subdivision No. Ill .'—Miscellaneous Services—contd. £ £ Charges foe and incidental to —continued. Grants —continued. 39 Libraries in mining townships ... ... 50 40 Mining Conference at Dunedin ... ... 350 41 Nevis Valley Road (maintenance) ... ... 100 42 Thames water-race repairs .. ... 100 43 Instruments and apparatus ... ... ... 10 44 Instrument and outfit allowance for Chief Inspector of Mines and repairs and maintenance of instruments 30 45 Law-costs ... ... ... 50 46 Maintenance of Water-races : Waimea-Kumara ... 620 47 Map of mining privileges, Inangahua County .. 75 48 Motor-cars ... ... ... 200 49 New Zealand and South Seas Exhibition : Minemodel, show-cases, &c., retained ... ... 295 50 Office fittings and requisites (including typewriters) 50 51 Postage, telegrams, and rent of boxes ... ... 250 52 Printing and stationery ... ... ... 450 53 Refunds of revenue under section 154 (3) of the Mining Act, 1908 (recoverable) ... ... ... 50 54 Rents .. ... ... 593 55 Rents, &c., in connection with the leases and plant of the Blenheim Oil Company (dissolved) ... 200 56 Schools of Mines ... ... ... 4,000 Subsidies— 57 Drybread Sludge Channel (£1 for £1) ... 200 58 Dunstan Miners Jubilee (£1 for £1) ... ... 50 59 Jubilee of pioneer miners at Kumara (£1 for £1)... 207 60 Kauaeranga Water-race, Thames (£1 for £4) ... 200 61 Systematic prospecting for minerals under Government direction ... ... ... 3,000 62 Telephone services (including installation, extensions, maintenance, rent, and calls) ... ... 180 63 Travelling allowances and expenses ... ... 1,800 64 Contingencies, including unforeseen expenditure incidental to the other items of this subdivision ... 20 Estimated credits-in-aid under Section 22 of the Appropriation Act, 1923 (see end of vote) — £ Collecting goldfields revenue ... 20 Drilling-expenses ... ... 500 Printing and stationery, publications, &c. ... ... 50 Refunds of revenue ... ... 50 620 Total—Subdivision No. Ill ... 38,943 Gross Total ... ... ... ... 57,417 Credits-in-aid (a) ... ... ... 1,440 NET TOTAL—VOTE No. 21 ... 55,977