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CLASS VI.—COMMISSIONER OF TRADE AND CUSTOMS— continued.
Appropriations for Consolidated Fund Services.
Item. 18: 16-87. MAEINE AND HAEBOTJES— continued. £ .-,2 53 VOTE No. S6—continued. Salaries — continued. Lighthouses— 25 Principal Keepers, 3 at £180, 1 at £170, 5 at £160, 7 at £150, and 9 at £140 ... 34 Assistant Keepers, 2 at £130, 11 at £120, 5 at £110, 14 at £100, 1 at £90, and 1 at £50 Artificer 3,820 54 3,670 200 7,690 55 56 General— 1 Inspector and Engineer Surveyor, Examiner of Engineers, and Chief Inspector of Land Machinery 5 Inspectors and Engineer Surveyors of Steamships, Examiners of Engineers and Inspectors of Land Machinery, viz., 1 at Auckland, 1 at Wellington, 1 at Christchurcli. and 2 at Dunedin; 4 at £325 each, and 1 at £300 Examiners of Masters and Mates— Auckland, 1 at £100, 1 at £75 Wellington, 1 at £100 (also Weather - reporting Officer at £300), and 1 at £100 (also Nautical Adviser £300) Lyttelton, 2 at £50 Dunedin, 2 at £50 1,600 500 r,7 68 175 200 100 100 59 60 2,675 61 62 68 64 65 66 07 68 Other Charges— Lighthouse Tender "Stella" ... New Boiler for Lighthouse Tender " Stella " Wages and maintenance of schooner " Kekeno " Pension to Widow of late Lightkeeper, P. A. Deck Expenses connected with inquiries into wrecks, llelief of distressed seamen, and Survey of unseaworthy Ships Buoys for Kaipara Harbour Improvement of Bar and Channel, and removal of Eocks, Mokiliinui Biver Maintenance of Waitapu Leading Lights ... Eemoval of snags and other obstructions— Mokau Eiver Wairau Eiver Wairau Eiver (subsidy of £l for £1) Qpawa Eiver (subsidy of £1 for £1) Eemoval of snags and clearing channel to coal mine, Collingwood Extension of Havelock Wharf (subsidy of £1 for £1) ... Maintenance of Hokitika Lighthouse General Harbour Contingencies, including maintenance of Harbour Lights, Buoys, and Beacons Oil, Stores, and Lighthouse Contingencies Travelling Expenses aud General Contingencies 5.000 2,000 650 24 500 600 130 50 69 70 71 72 78 500 200 100 100 71: 75 70 300 75 70 77 78 2,000 3,000 1,500 Total—Vote No. 36 ... 16,799 | 34,558