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CLASS VI.—CUSTOMS AND MARINE DEPARTMENTS— continued.

Appropriations for Consolidated Fund Services

Item. 18 8-99. MARINE AND HARBOURS— continued. 14 15 VOTE No. 40— continued. Salabies— continued. General — Waitapu — Harbourmaster Collingwood — Lightkeeper Karamea — Signalman Okarito — Harbourmaster £ 25 25 16 40 17 25 Lbbs contributions from Customs Vote 2,665 85 2,580 18 Lighthouses — 28 Principal Keepers: 2at £180, 14 at £160,6 at £150, 6 at £140 39 Assistant Keepers: 4 at £130, 17 at £120, 5 at £110, 2 at £100, 9 at £90, 1 at £80, and 1 at £50 Artificer 4,340 4,250 210 8,800 19 Examiners of Masters and Mates — Auckland: 1 at £75 and 1 at £25 Lyttelton Weather-reporting Officer and Examiner of Masters at Wellington 100 25 20 350 Inspection of Machinery and Survey of Steamers — Salaries — Chief Iuspector of Machinery and Principal Engineer Surveyor 8 Inspectors of Machinery and Engineer Surveyors of Steamers : 4 at £325, 2 at £300, 2 at £275 2 Clerks at £180 Cadet 475 21 400 2,450 360 65 Other Charges — Travelling-expenses, Rent of Offices, and Contingencies 3,275 22 1,700 4,975 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 Other Chaeges— Pension to Widow of late Lightkeeper, P. A. Deck Pension to J. Heberley, late Pilot at Queen Charlotte Sound Expenses connected with Inquiries into Wrecks, Relief of Distressed Seamen, and Survey of Unseaworthy Ships Protection of Oysters Protection of Fish, &c. Maintenance of Waitapu Leading Lights ... Wharf at Panmure Repairs to Lighthouses, Dwellings, &c. Repairs to the wharf at Mongonui Repairs to the wharf at Marsden Point Repairs to Half-moon Bay Wharf, Stewart Island Addition to wharf at Waitangi, Chatham Islands Snagging the Mokau River Construction of embankment, Karamea Harbour Extension of wharf at Horse-shoe Bay Repairing fence and clearing burial-ground of persons drowned in the s.s. " Tararua " Subsidy to Steamer for Kaipara Harbour Work 24 50 350 250 150 50 200 400 200 100 250 25 127 290 80 39 20 340