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STATEMENT in Detail of the EXPENDITURE for MISCELLANEOUS SERVICES— contd.

PUBLIC ACCOUNTS, 1903-1904

£ a. d. £ s. d. £ s. d. CLASS XVII.—MINISTER FOR AGRICULTURE :— Vote No. 70 —Miscellaneous Services :— Item 1—Advertising, printing, &c. Item 2—Analytical and biological laboratories Item 3—Bicycles and repairs Item 4—Collection of agricultural and pastoral statistics Item 5—Compensation for loss through anthrax Dairy industry,— Item 6 —Contribution towards cool-storage for dairy-produce Item 7 —Grading of dairy-produce Item 8 —Establishment of dairy sohools Item 9 —Inspection of dairies Item 10—Purchase of dairy requisites Item 11—Subsidy to National Dairy Association Destruction of rabbits on Crown lands: Contraots, labour, natural enemies, &c, — Item 12-Auckland District Item 13 —Napier District Item 11—Wellington and West Coast Districts Item 15 —Marlborough, Nelson, and Westland Districts Item 16—Canterbury and Kaikoura Districts Item 17 —Otago District 611 19 6 646 11 0 233 7 4 3,858 14 5 60 11 1 14,115 2 9 3,282 12 6 1,116 3 0 18 11 10 100 0 0 3,938 10 9 199 2 0 845 8 11 109 16 8 656 4 1 2,555 2 6 Less recoveries.. 8,304 4 11 1,327 5 5 6,976 19 6 Experimental and stud and fruit farms : Working-expenses, buildings, and purchase of stock, — Item 18—Ruakura Item 19—Wairangi Item 20—Momahaki Item 21—Levin (Weraroa) Item 22—Sundry small stations 3,554 12 8 3,701 12 5 2,056 2 3 2,466 19 5 271 10 5 Item 23 —Expenses, stud horses and oattle Item 24—Expenses in connection with buildings and fences, &c, on stock and dip reserves, and generally improving same Item 25—Expenses in conneotion with the Veterinary Laboratory, Wallaceville Item 26—Freights and carriage Item 27—Fumigation of fruit and other expenses Item 28—Grading of hemp Item 29 —Inspection of noxious weeds Item 30 —Inspection of vineyards and eradication of phylloxera Item 31 —Inspection of imported bones and manure Poultry industry: Working-expenBes, buildings, purchase of birds, foods, &c, — Item 32—Ruakura Item 33 —Momahaki Item 34—Burnham Item 35—Milton Item 36—Expenses in connection with depots for plucking, grading, packing, and freezing poultry for export 12,050 17 2 1,673 15 6 642 1 10 369 9 3 22 19 5 Cr. 98 8 9 Cr. 359 14 0 1,734 4 9 583 19 8 110 0 10 523 13 7 784 18 10 633 1 1 599 3 5 1,594 0 4 Less recoveries 4,134 17 3 1,506 1 10 Item 37 —Prosecutions for breaches of Stock, Rabbit, and other Acts, and sundry legal expenses Item 38—Purchase of books, newspapers, periodicals, ana other publications Item 39—Purchase of patent for meat-stamp ink Item 40—Purchase ana expenses of Angora goats Item 41—Purchase of seeds for Orange River Colony (to be recoverea) Item 42—Purohase of stua horses and cattle Item 43—Quarantine stations for stock—Auckland, Wellington, and Lyttelton Item 44—Refund of railway fares, best-kept-farm competition, and to delegates attending conference Item 45—Removal expenses Item 46—Rents, fuel, lighting, cleaning offices, furniture, insurance, &c. Item 47 —Seeds, plants, &c, for distribution Item 48—Subsidies to local bodies for destruction of the kea .. Item 49—Subscriptions to telephones Item 50—Sterilising bones: Working-expenses Item 51—Testing of stock Travelling-expenses,— Item 52 —Head offioe —Auckland —Napier —Wellington-West Coast —Marlborough-Nelson .. —Canterbury-Kaikoura .. „ —Otago 2,628 15 5 261 19 0 257 17 9 150 0 0 58 2 2 52 14 8 663 3 6 433 13 0 1,144 4 2 Cr. 1 6 8 13 11 6 213 7 5 285 6 8 73 11 5 6,489 4 3 1,440 12 1 769 4 5 1,900 3 10 374 13 10 885 19 8 2,153 4 4 Less recoveries.. 14,013 2 5 41 8 1 13,971 14 4 Carriea forwara 67,956 12 11