8.—7.

Appropriations for Consolidated Fund Services.

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

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1907-8. 1907-8. Salaries Other Charges. Total. « £ £ £ Vote 15. —Office of Industries and Commerce 1 ,901 23 ,838 26 ,739 16. —Touriet and Health Resorts Department ... .. 20,005 20,185 40 ,190 TOTAL OF CLASS IV 21,906 j 44,023 65 ,929 tern. 1907-8. OFFICE OF INDUSTRIES AND COMMERCE. 1907-8. Total number of officers 11 VOTE No. 15. 1 Salabirs — Secretary (also General Manager, Tourist Department, £350) Trade Representative Chief Clerk (also Chief Clerk Department of Tourist and Health Resorts, £325) ... 2 Clerks: 1 at £210, 1 at £150 Shorthand-writer and Typist ... Resident Agent, >San Francisco (also Post and Telegraph Department, £50) 2 Agents, Melbourne and Sydney, £150 each (also Department of Tourist and Health Resorts, £175 each) Agent, Vancouver, British Columbia (also Tourist and Health Resorts Department, £50) Messenger £ £ 350 460 75 860 120 50 300 50 146 1,901 Other Charges— 2 Advertising, purchase of books, <fcc. 3 Assistance to develop shale industry 4 Canadian steam trade service subsidy 5 Clerical assistance 6 Expenses in connection with Colonial Products Exhibition, Liverpool 7 Expenses, Permanent Court, Crystal Palace 8 Expenses of exhibit, Royal Horticultural Show, London 9 Expenses, tinned-meat exhibit, Groceries Exhibition, London 10 Expenses in connection with Irish International Exhibition, Dublin, 1907 11 Expenses of exhibit at Royal Dairy Show, London 12 Expenses in connection with Franco-British Exhibition, London, May, 1908 (on account) 13 Expenses of exhibit at Australian Natives' Association ciation Exhibition, Melbourne 14 Expenses of exhibit at Launceston Exhibition 15 Grain-grading (general) 500 1,000 10,000 500 300 400 100 100 1,000 120 5,000 268 150 500