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DETAILS OF ESTIMATES FOR THE

MARINE DEPARTMENT—continued

(a) Number of officers, 38. Travelling-allowances, £1,390; rail and boat fares, £470 ,' motor hire, £397 ; motor-car allowance, £865. (5) Includes provision for forty-five part-time officers, £675. (c) Includes cost of Echo Finder for launch " Tawera," £6BO. (d) Includes running-costs of four launches supplied by Navy for fisheries patrol, £1,500; runningexpenses of new fisheries launch " Ikatere," £1,500, and purchase of launch " Clematis," £2,710. (e) Includes cost of car for Inspector of Fisheries, Dunedin, £2OO.

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Y OTE—MARINE—continued 1946-47. 1945-46. Voted. Expended. Subdivision No. V—Inspection of Machinery and Survey of Ships—continued £ £ £ f Other Charges for and incidental to—ctd. Transfer and removal expenses of officers .. Travelling allowances and expenses Contingencies Welding course for Inspectors 400 3,000 10 400 3,000 10 10 | 423 (a) 3,122 7,625 7,745 7,517 Total —Subdivision No. V 35,559 32,882 31,828 Subdivision No. VI—Fisheries (Number of officers: 1946-47,81; 1945-46,74) Salaries— Other Salaries 81 (£5 to £1,000) (6) 14,485 11,717 11,263 Other Charges for and incidental to — Barges,, purchase of Fisheries Act: miscellaneous expenses of administration Fisheries investigation Fresh-water fisheries research Launches, maintenance, working-expenses, and purchase of Motor-vehicles : purchase, maintenance, &c., and accident costs Office expenses 400 10 (c) 780 30 id) 6,590 (e) 450 50 800 10 100 20 1,400 200 50 400 5 94 1 763 192 43