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PUBLIC ACCOUNTS, 1905-1906.

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

£ s. d. £ s. d. 25 5 6 £ s. d. 12,317 15 10 Brought forward JLASS XVII.—MINES DEPARTMENT-ecmiwmed. Vote No. 68.—Miscellaneous Services— continued. Item 25—Contingencies— continued. Cleaning offices Despatch-bags Freight and cartage Fuel .. Foreign postage Map of Greater Wellington Lodging-allowance of cadets Oil colours .. .. Stationery and fountain-pens Subscriptions to telephones Bemoval and travelling expenses Typewriter and material Sundries 3 15 0 14 0 0 8 5 10 2 18 8 12 7 2 3 6 0 50 0 0 10 0 10 5 10 47 18 2 14 11 11 26 11 6 0 15 0 Less receipts from sales of New Zealand Mines Record 221 0 7 36 0 0 185 0 7 Less recoveries in respect of expenditure of previousyears 12,502 16 5 91 13 4 Total net expenditure, Vote No. 68 £12,411 3 1 iLASS XVIII.—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—Bonuses or advances to assist fruit-canning factories Item 5—Bonus for an improved method of preparing"New Zealand hemp, &o. Item 6—Bonus for best means of destroying email birds Item 7—Bonus for discovery of mineral manure Item 8—Collection of agricultural and pastoral statistics Item 9—Compassionate allowance to the widow of the late A. G. Howard, Assistant Meat Inspector Item 10—Compassionate allowance to N. Kensington, late Overseer in charge of Experimental Station at Waerenga, on retirement Item 11—Compensation for loss through anthrax Item 12—Compensation under the Workers' Compensation for Accident Acts claimed by the widow and daughters of the late Donald Ross, rabbit agent Item 13 —Contribution towards cost of printing proceedings of the Agricultural and Pastoral Conference, held at Wellington, 1905 Dairy industry— Item 14—Contribution towards cool-storage foe dairy-produce Item 15—Contribution towards cost of printing proceedings of the Dairy Conference, held at Palmerston North during June, 1905 Item 16—Grading of dairy-produce Item 17 —Purchase of dairy requisites Item 18—Subsidy to National Dairy Association Item 19—Establishment of dairy schools Destruction of rabbits on Crown lands— Item 20—Auckland District Item 21—Napier District Item 22—Wellington-West Coast Distriot Item 23 —Marlborough-Nelson District Item 24—Canterbury-Kaikoura District Item 25—Otago District Experimental and stud and fruit farms : Working-expenses, buildings, and purchase of stock — Item 26—Bickerstafie Item 27—Levin (Weraroa) Item 28—Momahaki Item 29—Momahaki, Section 12a, Village Settlement : Working-expenses Item 30—Ruakura (Waikato) Item 31—Sundry small stations Item 32—Waerenga Item 33—Waerenga : Establishing and maintaining vineyard and erection of buildings Item 34—Arataki: Establishing and maintaining vineyard, erection of buildings, &o. 754 5 4 20 0 0 1,104 8 2 173 2 11 200 0 0 339 17 10 998 17 0 167 0 5 3,72214 11 50 0 0 140 0 0 50 0 0 4,042 11 6 638 15 5 584 9 4 31 8 7 462 12 8 3,317 13 3 2,251 16 5 9,077 10 9 2,621 15 5 5,086 19 0 2,658 10 11 384 1 7 5,413 6 8 134 4 1 4,181 13 9 1,034 7 11 911 18 7 22,426 17 11 Carried forward 39,224 15 3