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STATEMENT in Detail of the EXPENDITURE for MISCELLANEOUS SERVICES— contd.

PUBLIC ACCOUNTS, 189 3-9 4.

CLASS IX.—MINISTER OF MINES:--Vote No. 5G—Miscellaneous Services :— Maintenance and Management of Water-races, — Item 1—Waimea-Kumara Item 2—Mount Ida Water-race £ s. a. £ s. d. 2,937 18 1 1,020 13 4 £ s. d. 3,958 11 5 Item 3 —Thames, Otago, and Reefton Schools of Mines— Salaries Travelling-expenses Payment to William Goodlet for services as lecturer Subsidies to Schools of Mines, — Thames Keefton Hokitika .. .. .. .. .. Otago University 150 0 0 37 0 5 10 0 0 500 0 0 700 0 0 78 19 4 80 0 0 G97 0 5 Item 4—Expenses of Board of Examiners for mine-managers' certificates Item 5—Purchase of auriferous land at Kuaotunu, Coromandel Item 6 —Compensation and expenses in connection with the resumption of land and proclamation of rivers as watercourses for receiving tailings Item 7 —To give effect to recommendation of Commissioners on claims of Tapu settlers Item 8 —Prospecting and other works at Brunner Coal-mine .. Item 9—Compensation awarded for air - line of road taken through Native land, Whangarei County Item 10—Contingencies, and Mining Inspectors' travellingexpenses,— Advertising, stationery, &c. Field surveys, &c. Inspecting and reporting on mines Law-costs and witnesses' expenses .. .. Miscellaneous Office-furniture Office-rent, cleaning, &c. .. .. Report on proposed electrical-power transmission scheme at Kuaotunu Shelter-shed, Pipitea Subscription to Telephone Exchange .. .. Survey, boundary-line Tararu Reserve Travelling-expenses .. Triangulation and alignment, Coal-pit Heath Cliffs Wages 67 12 3 25 10 0 14 8 6 74 10 11 49 11 10 14 16 7 40 9 9 1,555 19 9 108 9 7 1,000 0 0 1,298 8 G 127 11 0 1G0 0 0 45 16 0 31 14 3 15 4 2 16 2 0 1,100 2 11 25 0 0 24 18 0 1,545 17 2 Total net expenditure, Vote No. 56 £9,820 17 5 CLASS XIII.—DEFENCE DEPARTMENT:— Vote No. G6 —Miscellaneous Services :— Item 1—Repairs, &c, to military graveyards Item 2—Purchase of long-service medals Item 3—Pension to Mrs. Elizabeth Ford, from 1st April, 1893, to 31st March, 1894 Item 4—Pension of late F. G. Rawson, continued to his widow, from 1st April, 1893, to 31st March, 1894 Item 5—Pension of late Wm. Oliver, continued to his widow .. Item 6—Pension of late Mrs. Passmore, continued to her sisters, from 1st April, 1893, to 31st March, 1894 Item 7—Pension to Aperahama Tahumirangi, for wounds received while in the service of the New Zealand Government, 1st January to 31st December, 1893 Item 8 —Pensions to recipients of New Zealand Cross Item 9 —Special allowance to ex-Constable Packer, for serious permanent injuries received in the service, 1st April to 31st March, 1894 Item 10 —Special allowance to ex-Constable Miles Leighton, for serious permanent injuries received in the service, 1st March to 31st December, 1893 Item 11—Compassionate allowance to the widow of the late Torpedoman Heighton, at the rate of £1 per week, 14th February, 1893, to 19th March, 1894 Item 12—Compassionate allowance to ex-Torpedoman Cornwall, for injuries received at the Shelly Bay explosion, at 15s. per week, 12th March, 1893, to 6th January, 1894 Item 13 —Compassionate allowance to the widow and children of the late Sergeant-Major Nixon Item 14—Expense of blowing up rocks in inner harbour, Nelson Item 15—Subsidy to Hamilton Drillshed (second instalment).. Item 16 —Repairs to machinery and hulls of steam-launches " Lyttelton," " Gordon," and " Isabel " .. Item 17 —Privilege of using Mount Eden rifle-range Item 18—Proportion of salary of Imperial officer in London, as Inspector of Warlike Stores, 1st January to 31st Dec, 1893 Item 19—Ordnance and other warlike stores Item 20—Repairs to jetty at Shelly Bay Itom 21—Purchase of part of Sections 54 and 55, on which the Port Chalmers Drillshed encroached 30 0 0 65 13 0 4G 0 0 45 0 0 47 0 0 10 0 0 180 0 0 39 10 10 22 10 0 57 0 0 32 5 0 127 15 0 351 17 8 300 16 4 225 0 0 167 2 8 3,327 0 2 110 0 0 Total net expenditure, Vote No. 66 £5,184 10 8