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DETAILS OF ESTIMATES FOR THE

MARINE DEPARTMENT—continued

(a) Being £15,000 approved for 1946-47, and £9,469 unexpended 1945-46. (b) Expenses of overhaul more than anticipated. (c) Number of officers, 4. Travelling-allowance, £2; rail and boat fares, £l2; motor-car allowance, £3. (d) Investigations not commenced during 1945-46.

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* - -V ! 1946-47. 1945-48. VOTE —MARINE —continued Voted. Expended. / Subdivision No. II—Harbours—continued £ £ £ Other Charges for and incidental to — ' continued Golden Bay wharves : Investigating Committee (expenses of) 170 • • • • Grreymouth Harbour— Model: subsidy (£1 for £1) 110 1,000 890 Maintenance, repairs, and renewal of harbour equipment {a) 24,469 22,907 13,438 Repairs to dredging plant 3,161 25,590 22,429 Harbour maintenance (including upkeep of buoys, beacons, and harbour lights) 275 480 216 Ifokianga County Council: subsidy 250 250 250 "Launches : repairs and maintenance, &c. .. 350 300 (b) 660 Mokau Harbour access road, purchase of, &c. 75 # # Mokau Harbour Board : subsidy 100 100 100 Office expenses 15 15 12 Oamaru foreshore, survey of 20 50 30 Nuggets fishermen : Endless-rope installation 250 . . , , Payments to Post and Telegraph Department 65 65 55 Printing and stationery 10 10 u Prosecutions under Harbours Act 10 10 ,. Rent 30 20 27 Transfer and removal expenses of officers .. 10 10 Travelling allowances and expenses 100 100 "(c) 17 West Coast harbours: report by British engineers 7,500 7,500 {d) 5 Contingencies 10 10 Beachlands wharf: grant for repairs . . 20 20 Kenepuru Sound: grant for repairs to wharves , . 55 , » Okarito Harbour : grant for opening bar .. , , 25 . t Picton Harbour : repairs to Harbourmaster's residence 25 64 Point Elizabeth: soundings 54 56 37,560 59,176 38,600 Total—Subdivision No. II 39,354 60,955 40,438