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CLASS XV.—DEPARTMENT OF LANDS AND SURVEY.— continued.

Appropriations for Consolidated Fund Services.

item. 18! 8-99. MISCELLANEOUS SERVICES— continued. 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 30 37 38 39 VOTE No. 71— continued. Grant to Eketahuna Road Board to remove hardship of having thirds paid to them in error, and, when spent in good faith, stopped out of other thirds Improvement of Orari Park Domain (contribution) Interest on £2,000, part purchase-money of Stewart Island Khandallah Domain Reserve —Subsidy towards purchase Lyell cemetery clearing Linwood Recreation-ground (purchase of land), £1 for£l Mount Cook Hermitage expenses Mount Cook Hermitage equipment Magnetic observatory and expenses Native townships —Expenses of administration (roading and other works to be repaid) Old Soldiers Commission expenses Purchase of recreation reserve for Pukekohe Purchase of recreation-ground, Wilsher Bay, Otago ... Purchase of recreation-ground, Eltham (subsidy, £1 Tor £1) ... ... ... Purchase of land, Makuri Gorge, and resumption of section under lease, for preservation of scenery Purchase of road and land at Opotiki Purchase of specimen Notornis mantelli Payment for improvements effected on Section 10, Block III., Makotuku, since withdrawn from sale on account of timber (estate of late W. Parker) ... Pavment to A. Anthony of value of improvements, Section 22, Block VI., Makotuku Payment to T. Lawrence of value of improvements, Section 3, Block VIII., Puketoi Payment to J. T. Catley, late Receiver of Land Revenue, Nelson, of three months' salary on retirement Payment to Rose Fynes-Clinton of gratuity on account of service of late J. Fynes-Clinton Payment to Waitara West Road Board of proceeds of sale, part Section 96, Block VII., Paritutu Survey District Payment for writing book describing country round Wanganui River Payment to Herbert Liddell in lieu of remission certificate Refunds on account of lands disposed of, short acreage, &c. Refund to J. Aiken of expenses in defending action for trespass, as recommended by Waste Lands Committee Refund of rent, Ashburton Bridge Reserve, to be paid to County Refund of portion of survey-fee to W. F, Boese Refunds for improvements effected Refund for improvements effected, Section 22, Block 8, Makotuku, H. McLean Refund of royalty on gravel to Tarata Domain Board and Clifton County (equal shares) Refund of royalty on timber charged under new regulations, in consequence of contracts having been entered into previous to the date of such regulations Refund to A. Bulman of amount deposited on application for Sections 40, 41, Block VIII., Campbelltown Hundred Refund of amount deposited by Catherine Munro on application for Section 2, Block 3, Mangakahia Survey District £ 131 14 500 300 20 100 800 200 500 800 600 50 100 175 270 53 100 15 46 48 £ 84 40 32 41 25 42 40 43 30 44 300 45 50 46 47 48 49 26 17 350 30 50 51 51 100 52 3 53 3