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SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATES, 1949-50

DEPARTMENT OF SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL RESEARCH —continued

(a) £65,395 provided on main estimates. (b) £36,535 provided on main estimates. (c) £12,810 provided on main estimates. (d) £22,870 provided on main estimates. (e) £450 recoverable. Amount of £11,605 is made up as follows : ~ • Supple- „ ? t . lam , mentary Total. Estimates. Estimates. £ £ £ Agronomy Division.. .. •• •• 21,950 930 22,880 Animal Ecology Division .. .. •• 5,050 650 5,700 Botany Division 18,550 , 1,790 20,340 Entomology Division .. •• -• 10,220 1,000 11,220 Fats Research Laboratory .. .. . • 14,450 100 14,550 Fruit Research. 25,530 550 26,080 Grasslands Division .. •• 46,270 1,350 47,420 Plant Chemistry Laboratory .. .. 24,050 2,760 26,810 Plant Diseases Division .. •• •• 38,340 1,000 39,340 Soil Bureau .. 58,190 900 59,090 Tobacco Research Association .. .. 9,010 125 9,135 Wheat Research Institute .. .. •• 12,790 450 13,240 £284,400 £11,606 £296,005

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J For Services ehargeable on the Consolidated Fund —continued £ £ £ ORDINARY REVENUE ACCOUNT —ctd. VOTE—SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL RESEARCH —continued Subdivision No. II —Research Investigations —ctd. Other Charges for and incidental to — Capital expenditure, including land, buildings and improvements, furniture, instruments, equipment, machinery, motor-vehicles, and purchase of other fixed assets (additional) Maintenance and operating expenses of offices, laboratories, workshops, experimental areas, and research stations, including purchase of glassware and other consumable stores, payments to the Post and Telegraph Department, printing and stationery, rent and rates, running-expenses of motor-vehicles, and office expenses (additional) Travelling allowances and expenses of officers and Committee members, including expenses of transfer of officers (additional) . . Wages (additional) (a) 5,595 (.b) 900 (c) 1,250 (d) 400 Total —Subdivision No. II 8,145 1 (e) 11,605 1