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CLASS VI.—CUSTOMS AND MARINE DEPARTMENTS— continued.

Appropriations for Consolidated Fund Services.

-em. 7-98. MARINE AND HARBOURS. 189 1897-98. Total number of officers ... 102 VOTE No. 40. Salaries — Marine Head Office — Chief Clerk Clerk Clerk Cadet Nautical Adviser, Inspector and Surveyor of Ships, and Examiner of Masters and Mates £ £ 320 230 110 65 400 Harbours — Manukau — Harbourmaster and Pilot Signalman Boatman at £8 per month ... Lightkeeper at Heads Auckland — Bean Rock Lightkeeper Hokianga — Harbourmaster and Pilot and Coast Waiter 2 Boatmen at £6 per month... Kaipara — Harbourmaster and Pilot and Customs Officer 2 Signalmen (also Lightkeepers) Chief Boatman at £10 per month 1 Boatman at £7 10s. per month Mokau — Signalman Opunake — Signalman Rangitikei — Acting Signalman Foxton — Harbourmaster and Pilot Wellington — Assistant Lightkeeper, Somes Island ... Napier Bluffi Lighthouse — Lightkeeper Wairau — Signalman Nelson — Harbourmaster and Pilot 2 Boatmen at £10 per month Signalman Waitapu — Harbourmaster Collingwood — Lightkeeper Karamea — Signalman Okarito — Harbourmaster 1,125 200 130 96 120 3 4 160 140 144 250 20 120 90 / 6 25 7 25 8 36 9 190 10 120 11 20 1.2 145 13 225 240 39 14 25 15 25 16 40 17 50 Less contributions from Customs Vote 2,675 85 Lighthouses — 28 Principal Keepers: 2 at £180, 15 at £160,4 at £150, 7 at £140 39 Assistant Keepers: 4 at £130, 18 at £120, 2 at £110, 5 at £100, 7 at £90, 2 at £80, and 1 at £50 Artificer 2,590 18 4,340 4,240 200