8.—7.

Appropriations for Consolidated Fund, Services.

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

4—B. 7.

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1908-9. Salaries. Other Charges. Total. Vote 15. —Office of Industries and Commerce £ £ £ 1,870 18 ,502 20 ,372 16, —Tourist and Health Resorts Department 23 ,'905 28 ,516 52 ,421 17. —Advertising Department 588 608 1,196 TOTAL OF CLASS IV 26 ,363 .7 ,626 73 ,989 torn. OFFICE OF INDUSTRIES AND COMMERCE. 1908-9. 1908-9. Total number of officers .. 10 VOTE No. 15. Salaries — Secretary (also General Manager, Tourist Department, £350)" Trade Representative Chief Clerk (also Chief Clerk Department of Tourist and Health Resorts, £350) ... 2 Clerks: 1 at £210, 1 at £150 Shorthand-writer and Typist ... 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 £ £ 350 450 75 360 130 300 50 155 1,870 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Other Charges incidental ToAdvertising, purchase of books, &c. Canadian steam trade service subsidy Cleaning, lighting, water, telephones, and office requisites Extra Clerical assistance ... .... ••• Expenses in connection with Colonial Products Exhibition, Liverpool 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 ... ,.,..• Expenses in connection with Franco-British Exhibition, London, May, 1908 ... ■•• . Expenses of exhibit at Australian Natives' Association ciation Exhibition, Melbourne ... Expenses of exhibit at Launceston Exhibition Grain-grading (general) 500 10 ,000 100 300 300 400 100 100 10 100 11 : 3 ,500 12 100 50 100 13 14