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Appropriations for Consolidated Fund Services.

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE —continued.

Item - 1932-33. VOTE No. 27.—AGRICULTURE —continued. 1932-33. Subdivision No. II.—Live-stock Division —continued. £ £ 22 Salaries —continued. Non-permanents—continued. £ 1 at £441 ... ... 45 1 at £32i ... .. 33 42 1 at £31 ... ... 31 5,186 271 Officers on loan from other Departments ... 7 Allowances for performing special or higher duties under Public Service Begulations Nos. 24a and 209 ; 133 Estimated credits-in-aid under Section 51 of the Public Revenues Act, 1926 (see end of vote) — Recoveries from local bodies, &c. £1,790 73,982 Less amount provided but not required ... 617 73,366 Oth br Charges for and incidental to — Bicycles and motors — 23 Purchase of ... ... ... 388 24 Maintenance and running-cost of ... ... 1,300 25 Brand registration ... ... ... 5 Destruction of noxious weeds on— 26 Crown lands (recoverable) ... ... 900 27 N ative lauds (recoverable) ... ... 45 28 Other lands (part recoverable) ... ... 36 Destruction of rabbits— 29 On Crown lands (recoverable) ... ... 2,550 30 On Native lands (recoverable) ... ... 2,000 31 Rabbit-proof gates ... ... ... 15 Wages and general working-expenses, poisonmixing depots, purchase of material, &c.— 32 Trading section (recoverable) ... ... 2,300 33 Non-trading section (part recoverable) ... 100 Diseases of Live-stock— 34 Applying tuberculin test to cattle and disposing of diseased stock ... ... ... 15 35 Cattle-dip at Mahakatino ... ... ... 100 36 Control of cattle-tick, and provision for caretakers at crossing places ... .. ... 465 37 Inoculation of calves for " blackleg" ... ... 60 Experimental Farm, Mamaku : Wages and general 38 working - expenses, buildings, purchase of stock (part recoverable) ... ... ... 900 39 Inspection of dairies: Purchase of apparatus ... 10 40 Inspection of manure-sterilizing (India) : Labour, travelling, office, and other expenses ... ... 250 41 Inspection of meat, including purchase of equipment 75 42 Investigation into deficiency diseases of stock, including feeding trials and purchase of material (part recoverable) ... ... ... 300 43 Law-costs ... ... ... 15 44 Poultry Experimental Station (Wallaceville) : Equipment and working-expenses (partly recoverable) ... 875 45 Quarantine - stations, Auckland and Wellington (partly recoverable) ... ... ... 700 46 Telephone services (including extensions, maintenance, rent, and calls) ... ... ... 850 47 Transfer and removal expenses ... ... 450 48 Travelling allowances and expenses ... ... 11,970