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DETAILS OF ESTIMATES FOR THE

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE—continued

(а) Supplies of strychnine ordered for 1944-45, but not paid for, are to hand; further supplies are on order for 1945-46. (б) Increase in overall allowance rate. (c) To aid the policy of increased pig-production. (d) Transfers previously held in abeyance through man-power and other wartime reasons. (e) Approximately 125 officers travelling. Allowances, £5,010; expenses, £2,709; motor hire, £1,480; motormileage, £6,020. (/) Madical expanse?, £1 lis. 6d. ; purchases for fiwl pillorum disease, Us. 2d.; expenses of student for Veterinary Bursary interview, £9 3s. 2d. : total, £11 ss. JOd.

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Number of Persons. ,„. c 1944-45. 1945-46. 1945-401944-45 VOTE—AGRICULTURE continued Voted. Expended. £ £ £ Subdivision No. II.—Livestock Division—continued Other Charges for and incidental to —continued Destruction of rabbits— On Crown lands (recoverable) .. .. .. 5,000 3,750 4,676 On Native lands (recoverable) .. .. .. 2,750 2,000 2,600 Rabbit-proof gates.. .. .. .. .. 25 25 20 Wages and general working-expenses, poison-mixing depots, purchase of material, &c.— Trading section (recoverable) .. .. .. 10,000 6,500 (a) 682 Non-trading section (part recoverable) .... 25 25 12 Diseases of live-stock— Control of cattle-tick, and provision for spraying or dipping and other incidental expenses .. .. 25 25 Disposal of condemned stock, costs incidental to .. 50 50 36 Purchase of material, and expenses connected with treatment and control of animal diseases (including approved compensation) .. .. .. .. .. 750 1,000 1,035 Inspection of dairies: Purchase of apparatus .. .. 20 10 10 Inspection and grading of meat, including overall allowance and purchase of equipment .. .. .. .. 2,350 1,950 (b) 1,690 Office expenses .. .. .. .. .. 20 20 Payments to Post and Telegraph Department .. .. 1,750 1,650 1,816 Pig recording, purchase of apparatus, and expenditure in connection with demonstrations, &c. .. .. (c) 100 10 1 Poultry Experimental Station (Wallaceville) : Equipment and working-expenses (part recoverable) .. .. 2,000 1,500 1,783 Quarantine Station (Wellington), equipment and working expenses (part recoverable) .. .. .. .. 400 300 89 Registration and licensing of stallions: Examination fees and living and locomotion expenses .. .. .. 25 25 13 Registration of stock remedies, expenses of .. 25 50 Transfer and removal expenses .. .. .. 1,250 1,250 (d) 2,990 Travelling allowances and expenses .. .. .. 15,000 15,000 (e) 15,219 Veterinary Surgeons' Board, expenses of .. .. 50 100 17 Wool instruction: Purchases for demonstrations .. 150 200 122 Contingencies .. .. .. .. .. 25 25 (/) 11 Estimated credits-in-aid under Section 51 of the Public Revenues Act, 1926 (see end of vote) —- £ Destruction of rabbits (trading) .. .. 5,000 Destruction of rabbits— Department of Lands and Survey .. 5,000 Native Department .. .. .. 2,750 Farm areas .. .. .. .. 1,500 Quarantine Station .. .. .. 100 Sundry .. . .. .. 260 14,610 49,290 39,965 36,485 Total—Subdivision No. II .. .. 227,506 183,104 179,974