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SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATES, 1946-47

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE— continued

(a) £20,000 provided on main estimates. It is now clear that the testing of town supply herds involving higher compensation rates, will absorb the additional amount now provided. (6) Certain vendors supplied milk to dairy-shop proprietors above legal price; the latter sold to customers at legal price, and are being reimbursed for the loss sustained.

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For Services chargeable on the Consolidated Fund — continued £ £ £ ORDINARY REVENUE ACCOUNT— ctd. VOTE—AGRICULTURE— wntinued Subdivision No. IX. — Payments under Statutes Charges for and incidental to — Expenditure, including compensation for stock condemned under Stock Act, 1908 (part recoverable), (additional) (a) 8,000 Total—Subdivision No. IX Subdivision No. X. — Milk Marketing Division 8,000 Other Charges for and incidental to — Payment to Invercargill Dairy Keepers' Association Less amount provided on main estimates not required— Emergency milk - supplies, cost £ of, in drought areas .. 7,000 Reimbursement to milk-vendors of amounts paid to local authorities by way of levy on milk .. .. .. 3,000 (b) 32 (c) 10,000 Total — Subdivision No. X TOTAL .. Cr. 9,968 43,230