8.—7.

Appropriations for Consolidated Fund Services.

CLASS IV.—INDUSTRIES AND COMMERCE AND TOURIST AND HEALTH RESORTS DEPARTMENT.

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Salaries. Other Charges. Total. £ £ £ Vote 15. —Office of Industries and Commerce 1,640 14,220 15,860 „ 16.—Tourist and Health Resorts Department 18,638 18,053 36,691 TOTAL OF CLASS IV 20,278 12,273 52,551 Item. OFFICE OF INDUSTRIES AND COMMERCE. 1906-7. 1906-7. Total number of officers .. 8 VOTE No. 15. Salariks — Secretary (also Superintendent, Tourist Department, £300) Trade Representative Produce Commissioner Chief Clerk (also Chief Clerk Department of Tourist and Health Resorts, £310) ... Shorthand-writer and Typist ... Resident Agent, San Francisco (also Post and Telegraph Department, £50) 2 Agents, Melbourne and Sydney, £100 each (also Department of Tourist and Health Resorts, £125, and New Zealand International Exhibition, £100) ... £ 350 450 425 75 90 50 200 Other Charges— Advertising, purchase of books, &c. Assistance to develop shale industry Canadian steam-trade service subsidy (on account, £10,000) Clerical assistance Expenses in connection with Colonial Products Exhibition, Liverpool ... ... • •• Expenses in connection with the Indian and Colonial Products Exhibition, London Expenses, Permanent Court, Crystal Palace Expenses of exhibit, Royal Horticultural Show, London Expenses, tinned-meat exhibit, Groceries Exhibition, London .. ••■ •■■ Expenses in connection with Irish International Exhibition, Dublin, 1907 Grain-grading (general) Oversea Agencies — Fuel, light, and miscellaneous expenses ... Rent of offices Postage and telegrams for 3 months ending 31st March, 1907 Promotion of sale of New Zealand produce in outside markets Rent of offices Steam service to Eastern ports (on account) Subsidy, steam service, New Zealand to Noumea (on account) 1,640 2 3 4 500 1,000 5 6 6,400 800 300 7 500 400 100 8 9 10 100 11 200 500 12 13 150 450 14 70 15 16 17 18 500 200 1,000 100