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STATEMENT in detail of the NET EXPENDITURE under the DEPARTMENTAL VOTES for MISCELLANEOUS SERVICES of the LAND FUND ACCOUNT for the FINANCIAL YEAR ended 31st March, 1883.

PUBLIC ACCOUNTS, 1882-83.

£ s. d. £ s. d. £ s. d. CLASS XIII.—MINISTER OF LANDS AND MINES :— Vote 62—Crown Lands, Miscellaneous :— Item 1—Compensation for determination of lease of runs .. Item 2—Pees to and travelling expenses of members of Waste Lands Boards, — Fees Travelling expenses 1,971 13 0 969 0 0 148 14 2 1,117 14 2 Item 3—Compiler of Deeds of old Native Land Purchases, — Salary from 1 April, 1882, to 31 March, 1883 Item 4—To provide for scrip exercised in purchase of land on deferred payments Item 5—Refund to Titanic Steel Company Item 0—Introduction of New Zealand timbers into the French market, — Samples of timber A. Lecoy, for services rendered 300 0 0 4 6 0 100 0 0 104 6 0 Item 7 —To assist Public Domains in developing local industries and raising plants for distribution, — Auckland Domain Board Dunedin „ Wellington Botanical Gardens Board Miscellaneous 200 0 0 200 0 0 200 0 0 97 11 4 697 11 4 Item 8—Remission of royalty to the Westport Colliery Company .. .. .. .. Item 9—To give efiect to recommendations of the Waste Lands Committee, including expenses of Commission to inquire into Military and Volunteer scrip Item 10 —Compensation to be paid to Messrs. Seaton and Jones, for removing their buildings from the Brunnerton Coal Mining Company's leasehold Item 11—Cost of printing manuscript of Native Land Transactions, and to complete volume of Maori Deeds already partly printed,— Printing Wages 1,184 4 11 338 12 3 411 0 0 749 12 3 Item 12—Five per cent, payable to Natives in respect of sales of land in the Township of Opunake Item 13—Binding old land transactions, Auckland office .. Item 14—Unexpended balance of item 21, Vote 49, of last year, for Sanatorium at Ohinemutu, — Salaries Travelling allowance and expenses Bath pavilion Architect's commission Miscellaneous 242 15 0 222 10 11 1,175 0 0 96 5 0 495 4 10 135 16 6 71 0 0 Item 15—Contribution towards drain, at railway-station ground, Westport Item 16—Messrs. Seaton and Jones (additional), cost of preparing site for new hotel, — Excavation of hotel site at Brunnerton Item 17 —Compensation to Mr. McKenzie, in accordance with recommendation of Public Petitions Committee Item 18—Compensation payable owing to errors in survey .. Item 19—To provide payments in accordance with recommendation of Royal Commission on Naval and Military and Local Forces Land Claims 2,231 15 9 150 0 0 75 0 0 176 0 10 3,442 6 0 Carried forward 12,407 0 9