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Return showing the Total Ordinary Expenditure of the Marine Department during the Financial Year ended the 31st March, 1907.

Nature of Expenditure. Details. Totals. Grand Totals. £ s. d. £ s. d. 1,809 9 11 £ s. d. 1,809 9 11 Salaries of Head Office Staff Harbours:— Manukau, — Salaries House-rent Wharves (Graham's Beach and Orua Bay) .. Stores and contingencies Russell, — Stores and contingencies Hokianga,— Salaries Oil-launch Tower for harbour-light Stores and contingencies Kaipara, — Salaries Leading beacons ... House-rent StoreB and contingencies Kawhia, — Attendance on lights Stores and contingencies Opunake, — Salary Stores and contingencies Foxton, — Salary Stores and contingencies Tauranga,— Contingencies Mokau, — Salary Grant for snagging river Wairau, — Salary Removal of snags Stores and contingencies Motueka, — Salary Waitapu,— Salary Maintenance of lights Puponga, — Stores and contingencies Collingwood,— Salary Stores and contingencies Karamea, — Salary Removal of snags Stores and contingencies .. .. - • • Okarito, — Salary Cutting channel through bar Clearing river of snags, &e. Stores and contingencies Okuru, — Salary for signalling Stores and contingencies Little Wanganui,— Signalling vessels, &o. Waikawa, — Salary Picton — Contingencies 484 0 0 24 0 0 10 11 5 98 4 1 328 0 0 200 15 0 39 0 0 102 3 1 581 6 8 254 13 8 35 0 0 171 11 2 180 0 0 60 8 11 50 0 0 3 2 4 31 5 0 15 0 50 0 0 80 0 0 616 15 6 22 4 7 669 18 1 1,042 11 6 53 2 4 32 10 0 240 8 11 7 9 5 130 0 0 155 0 0 12 0 0 50 4 11 217 4 11 5 0 0 25 0 0 75 3 9 100 3 9 9 1 7 35 0 0 22 3 9 57 3 9 92 9 0 83 19 6 36 5 3 212 13 9 90 0 0 23 0 0 40 0 0 45 16 4 198 16 4 50 0 0 9 10 19 2 0 10 0 0 8 6 6 Stores, repairs to buoys, and sundries 242 18 5 Lighthouses: — Salaries •Oil Stores and contingencies Keepers' travelling-expenses Lighthouse artificer Renewal of telephone-line to Kaipara Lighthouse 3,954 12 4 9,512 1 11 1,664 2 3 2,848 4 11 152 11 2 230 0 0 121 11 4 14,528 11 7 Carried forward £20,292 13 10 * Total cost of oil lurohased. For value of oil consumed see return of cost of maintenance of lighthouses.