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Payments under Statutes Compensation for diseased live-stock, £38,084, and subsidies to Rabbit £55,342, are the only payments. There is a relatively small recovery, £2,245, from carcass disposals in connection with the compensation outgoings. Milk Marketing Division This is a temporary provision under vote " Agriculture." The payments,, including all aspects of expenditure, amounted to £7,994, and minor recoveries yielded £217. Jute control in 1945-46, with its incidences to stabilization, to absorption of used bags, to conservation of overseas funds, and to availability of transport from India, has had to be correlated to anticipated crop-production and to estimated importation of wheat, rock phosphate, &c. Certain aspects of flax (Phormium tenax), serpentine,, motor-vehicle carriage of fertilizer, and other subsidies have also absorbed time in supervisory capacity not directly related to normal accountancy responsibilities.

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