8.—7.

Appropriations for Consolidated Fund Services.

CLASS IV.—INDUSTRIES, ETC., DEPARTMENT—continued.

4—B. 7.

25

Item. 1905-6. TOURIST AND HEALTH RESORTS DEPARTMENT — continued. £ £ (10 <;i (12 VOTE No. 16— continued. Southern Lakes and Milford Sound — continued. Erection of wharf, Lake Wanaka Planting reserve and making paths, Lake Wanaka Subsidy for steamers, Lake Wanaka Subsidy for steamer, Lake Te Anau Subsidy for steamer, Lake Manapouri Subsidy, Queenstown Band Subsidy, Lumsden-Te Anau mail service ... Subsidy for Manapouri-Te Auau coach service Subsidy for Pukaki-Wanaka portion coach service 50 25 100 100 50 :-56 70 25 110 976 m 67 68 69 70 71 72 78 Othjeb Charges— Advertising, and purchase of books, photographs, pictures, and distribution of pamphlets, books, &c. . Assistance to invalids : Passages to and from hot springs Boat for Lake lanthe Brighton Caves Clerical assistance Compensation to Natives for loss through abolition of toll-gate at Whakarewarewa Egmont National Park (subsidy) Grant to Mokau River Trust . Importation and distribution of game and fish Orakei-Korako (improvements) Renovation and furniture, Head and Branch Offices ... Rent of offices, Wellington Salary, Caretaker, maintenance, &c, Little Barrier Island 5,000 100 20 25 800 74 75 76 77 78 79 so 100 200 100 L.iiOO 100 300 200 81 82 88 84 85 86 87 88 89 90 ill 92 91 Scenery societies Subsidy, Wairoa-Waikaremoana mail-service Subsidv, Fairlie-Hermitage mail-service Subsidy for steamer, Wanganui River Subsidy, oil-launch, Lake Kanieri Subsidy, Taupo Domain Subsidy, Rotorua-Ateainuri, &c, mail-service Subsidy, Culverden-Hanmer mail-service ... Testing springs and analysis of mineral waters To make good amount stolen from Te Aroha Baths Travelling allowances and expenses Waiotapu paths, plantations, and other improvements ... Waitomo Caves: Improvements, &c. Contingencies 250 100 150 2."0 200 50 50 25 100 100 (> (iOO 100 50 300 10,876 Less credits under section 41 of " The Public Revenues Act, 1891 " ... 41,295 14,000 ToTATi—Vote No. 16 ... 27295 TOTAL OF CLASS IV. ... £88,885