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CLASS IX.—MINES DEPARTMENT— continued.

Appropriations for Consolidated Fund Services.

item. 1898-99. METEOROLOGICAL AND MUSEUM DEPARTMENT. 1898-99. Total number of officers ... 2 VOTE No. 57. Salabies— Messenger and Keeper Taxidermist, at 8s. a day £ 125 126 Othee Chabges— Meteorological Stations and Time Ball Observatory ... Instruments Two Seismometers Contingencies, Chemicals, &c. ... 251 2 3 4 5 125 40 140 225 Total—Vote No. 57 530 781 MISCELLANEOUS SERVICES. 1 2 3 4 VOTE No. 58. Maintenance and Management of Water-races — Waimea-Kumara Mount Ida Schools of Mines Expenses of Board of Examiners for Mine Managers' certificates 2,700 1,400 2,800 5 6 7 Expenses, cyanide patent Mining exhibits, Auckland Industrial Exhibition Field Surveys and Expenses, Geological Surveys and Explorations Cost of collecting Goldfields Revenue Refund of Deposits made by Applicants for Special Claims at the Thames, the titles to which could not be issued as the areas applied for were, after survey, found to be on private freehold land Refund to the Kauri Timber Company, with interest at the rate of 5 per cent., of amount paid for purchase on 1st September, 1888, of the lease of the Kuatunu No. 3 Block, Coromandel District, in accordance with the recommendation of the Native Affairs Committee Refund of amount overpaid as rent on Guiding Star Special Claim at the Thames, in accordance with the recommendation of the Goldfields and Mines Committee Rebate of duty on cyanide of sodium imported for mining purposes only Special exhibit of the thermal springs at the Auckland Industrial and Mining Exhibition—subsidy, £1 for £\ Contingencies and Mining Inspectors' Travellingexpenses 250 28 250 8 9 400 200 108 10 1,125 11 21 12 500 13 60 14 2,000 Total—Vote No. 58 11,842 TOTAL OF CLASS IX. £1 ,916