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

Nature of Expenditure. Details. Totals. Grand Totals. Brought forward Lighthouses:— Salaries of keepers Oil, inoluding freight and storage Stores and contingencies Keepers' travelling-expenses Lighthouse artificer Pension of widow of Keeper Deck Enlarging Marine store £ s. d. £ s. d. 9,257 2 6 1,668 11 10 3,749 18 8 223 3 8 210 0 0 24 0 0 142 15 10 £ s. d. 4,650 12 6 Superintendents of Mercantile Marine :— Salaries Contingencies 15,275 12 6 1,060 0 0 218 5 5 1,278 5 5 Fisheries :— Protection of fish and oysters,— Salaries.. Travelling-expenses Contingencies Wages of attendants, Hakataramea Hatchery 490 6 1 199 2 5 118 8 5 264 17 0 1,072 13 11 16 13 6 401 5 1 455 1 7 101 14 9 Fish-hatcheries Import of Balmon-ova from Great Britain Salmon-hatohery at Hakataramea Supply of fish-ova and acclimatisation of fish, animals, &c. 2,047 8 10 Weather-reporting :— Salary Contingencies 350 0 0 48 1 0 398 1 0 • Less amount of credits to vote 23,650 0 3 247 14 3 Government steamers: — S.S. " Tutanekai " —working-expenses.. Compensation under Workers'Compensation Act S.S. " Hinemoa " —working-expenses .. S.S. " Hinemoa " —new machinery, repairs, &o. Compensation for C. Campbell, late Chief Engineer 10,700 7 3 6 15 0 6,786 3 10 4,845 0 9 396 0 0 23,402 6 0 Less amounts received for freight, passages, &c. 22,734 6 10 3,270 14 1 19,463 12 9 Departmental travelling-expenses Expenses supervising excursion steamers Coastal buoys, beacons, and surveys Charts Examination of masters and mates—contingencies Inquiries into wrecks and casualties Expenses connected with survey of unseaworthy ships Rolief of distressed seamen Sundries 1 12 3 123 4 0 36 2 7 131 17 4 72 3 1 570 3 11 13 14 7 9 0 8 481 1 4 Less amount of credits to vote 1,438 19 9 198 10 3 1,240 9 6 Total .. 44,106 8 3