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CLASS II.—COLONIAL SECRETARY— continued.

Appropriations for Consolidated Fund Services.

Item. 18 10-81. GOVEENMENT STATIST'S DEPAETMENT. £ s. d. £ S. d. 1 2 3 4 5 VOTE No. 8. Eegistrar-General and Government Statist... Chief Clerk 3 Clerks, 1 at £280, 1 at £220, 1 at £210 ... Cadet Eegistrars of Marriages for the several Eegistrars' Districts Actuary and Clerk for Friendly Societies, and Statistical Clerk Eevising Barrister under " Friendly Societies Act, 1877" Contingencies Census, 1881, and Collection of Agricultural Statistics 550 0 0 320 0 0 710 0 0 80 0 0 3,650 0 0 6 400 0 0 7 100 0 0 100 0 0 6,792 0 0 8 9 1,000 0 0 Amount ad«!ed from Supplementary Estimates 6,910 0 0 92 0 0 Less amount of reduction in Committee of Supply 7,002 210 0 0 0 0 Total—Vote No. 8 GEOLOGICAL AND METEOEOLOGICAL DEPAETMENT. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 VOTE No. 9. Assistant Geologist (also Inspector of Mines £100) Analyst Clerk and Curator (also Meteorological Observer and Statistical Clerk £60) Draftsman, &c. Field Assistant and Collector ... Museum Assistant ... Field Expenses and Special Surveys Contingencies Messenger and Keeper Meteorological Stations and Time Ball Observatory Inspection of Meteorological Stations, &c. ... 350 400 350 325 250 165 800 200 125 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 11 Total—Vote No. 9 [ 600 0 0 3,565 0 0 AGENT-GENEEAL'S DEPAETMENT. 1 2 VOTE No. 10. Agent-Genekal foe New Zealand in London — Agent-General Staff, Eent, &c. 1,500 2,500 0 0 0 0 3,000 0 0 Less amount of reduction in Committee of Supply ... ... 4,000 1,000 0 0 0 0 Total —Vote No. 10 ...