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CLASS XIII.—DEFENCE DEPARTMENT— continued.

Appropriations for Consolidated Fund Services.

tern. 18! 1-92. STOEES AND MAGAZINES. £ 1891-92. Total number of officers ... 18 2 VOTE No. 63. Salaries — Auckland — Storekeeper and Magazine Keeper Magazine Keeper and Assistant Wellington — Storekeeper Assistant Storekeeper 2 Clerks, 1 at £160, 1 at £140 , ... Storeman Armourer Armourer's Assistant 5 Arm Cleaners at £109 16s. Express Driver 2 Magazine Keepers, 1 at £120, 1 at £101 Lyttelton — Magazine Keeper ... ... ... Otago — Caretaker, Powder Hulk 200 230 325 200 300 110 183 138 549 110 221 8 88 4 110 2,764 Otheb Charges— Repairs to Magazines, Hulks, and Store Buildings Contingencies 300 500 5 6 800 Total—Vote No. 63 3,564 MISCELLANEOUS SERVICES. 1 2 8 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 VOTE No. 64. Other Charges— Eewards for Conviction in Sly Grog Cases Eepairs, &c, to Military Graveyards Purchase of Long Service Medals Pension to Mrs. Elizabeth Ford Pension of late F. G. Rawson, continued to his Widow Pension of late William Oliver, continued to his Widow Pension of Mrs. Passmore continued to her Sisters Pension to Aperahama Tahumirangi for wounds received while in the service of the New Zealand Government Pensions to Recipients of N.Z. Cross Special Allowance to ex-Constable Packer, for serious pejmanent injuries received in the service Special Allowance to ex-Constable Miles Leighton for serious permanent injuries received in the service ... Expenses attending the Detection of Sly Grog-sellers... Ordnance and other warlike stores (already ordered through the Agent-General) which are expected to come to hand during the present financial year Cost of ordnance and other military stores which arrived in the colony last year Expenses connected with the gun-cotton explosion at Shelly Bay Compassionate allowance to the widow of late Torpedoman Heignton at the rate of 15s. per week 100 50 100 46 45 37 47 10 180 40 11 12 18 30 100 10,000 1-1 2,656 15 10 1,143 30