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Return showing the Total Ordinary Expenditure of the Marine Department— continued.

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Hire o; ?xi>en< Hire. Details. Totals. Grand Totals. Lighthouses :— Salaries of keepers Oil, including freight and storage Stores and contingencies Keepers' travelling-expenses Lighthouse artificer Pension of widow of Keeper Deck Ni vv dwellings, Farewell Spit £ s. d. £ s. d. 9,338 12 11 2,712 8 9 5,396 5 4 38 18 0 210 0 0 24 0 0 1,790 15 0 £ s. d Superintendents of Mercantile Marine, — Salaries .. .. Contingencies 1,060 0 0 137 12 r> 19,511 0 0 1,197 12 5 Fisheries, — Protection of fish and oysters— Salaries.. Travelling-expenses Contingencies Wages of attendants, Hakataramea Hatchery 506 18 5 123 0 5 110 17 9 271 14 0 Collection and distribution of trout-ova Fish-hatcheries Hokitika hatcheries, £1 for £1 (grant) Import of salmon-ova from Canada .. .. . _ Import of salmon-ova from Great Britain Salmon-hatchery at Hakataramea .. .. ,. Supply of fish-ova and acclimatisation of fish, animals, &c. Experimental trawling 1,012 10 7 66 11 6 6 15 0 54 0 0 203 16 11 68 11 6 715 16 5 57 5 10 564 19 7 Weather-reporting,— Salary Contingencies 350 0 0 40 16 1 2,750 7 4 390 16 1 Less amount of credits to vote 30,441 10 1 2,292 7 1 Government steamers, — S.S. " Tutanekai " .. S.S. "Hinemoa" .. .. .. .. " 11,900 3 0 9,302 4 9 28,149 8 0 Less amounts received for freight, passages, &c. 21,262 7 9 7,981 13 7 13,280 14 2 Departmental travelling-expenses Expenses supervising excursion steamers Coastal buoys, beacons, and eurveys Charts Examination of masters and mates : Contingencies Inquiries into wrecks and casualties Expenses connected with survey of nnseaworthy ships Grant for prevention of encroachment of sea at Ocean Beach.. Relief of distressed seamen Grant for extension of Pembroke Wharf Compensation to master of ketch " Envy " for losses sustained through Magisterial inquiry Grant for survey to entrance of Clutha River Refreshments to guests of New Zealand Government at Sydney Further compassionate allowance to widow of late Captain Fairchild Gratuity to Eliza Doncliff on account of her husband, killed while in employment of Westport Harbour Beard Sundries 14 2 136 4 9 24 14 0 263 2 7 170 17 9 349 8 6 0 16 1 15 15 0 5 19 7 150 0 0 150 0 0 75 0 0 5 17 6 250 0 0 150 0 0 475 13 7 Less amount of credits to vote 2,224 13 6 350 14 6 1,873 19 0 Total .. 43,303 16 2