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Appropriations for Consolidated Fund Services.

CLASS IV.—INDUSTRIES, ETC., DEPARTMENT— continued.

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item 19 »8-9. TOURIST AND HEALTH RESORTS DEPARTMENT — continued. VOTE No. 16—continued. Other Charges incidental to — Accommodation-house, Waiho (subsidy for maintenance) Advertising, and purchase of books, photographs, pictures, and distribution of pamphlets, books, &c. ... Assistance to indigent invalids : Passages to and from hot springs Bonus to Honorary Agent, Adelaide, South Australia... Cleaning, lighting, water, telephones, and office requisites Compensation to relatives of Geo. Napier, accidentally drowned at Mount Cook Hermitage Egmont National Park (subsidy) Extra clerical assistance Fencing and grassing deer park, Paraparaumu Fox Glacier, tracks and huts Franz Josef Glacier, tracks and huts Importation and distribution of game and fisii Maintenance of Domains vested in the Department Miscellaneous cartage and freight Orakei-Korako improvements .. Postage, telegrams, and rent of boxes Renovation, furniture, and repairs, Head and Branch Offices Resolution Island : Maintenance of island, purchase of oil-launch, &c. Rent of offices — High Commissioner's office (part) Wellington Salary, Caretaker, maintenance, &c, Little Barrier Island Subsidy, accommodation-house,Weheka, South Westland Subsidy to Ferryman at mouth Waiau River Subsidy, steamer, Lake Hawea Subsidy, Taupo Domain Subsidy, Queenstown Band Travelling allowances and expenses Value of bag stolen from Rotorua Sanatorium Waiotapu: Paths, plantations,and other improvementsat Contingencies, including unforeseen expenditure incidental to the other items of the vote ... £ £ 87 25 88 5,000 89 100 25 90 91 200 92 200 200 525 300 25 50 500 100 25 25 700 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 100 101 102 103 300 104 250 105 50 450 106 107 108 109 110 111 112 113 114 115 255 10 20 25 50 36 750 7 50 200 52,421 10 ,453 Total —Vote No. 16 ... ADVERTISING DEPARTMENT. VOTE No. 17. Salaries (9 months) — 3 Clerks : 1 at £200, 1 at £188, 1 at £156 Shorthand-writer and typiste at £ 115 Messenger at £125 408 86 94 588 •2 3 1 5 6 7 s Other Charges incidental to — Cleaning, lighting, telephones, and office requisites Extra clerical assistance Office furniture and requisites Postages, telegrams, and rent of boxes Rent of offices Subscriptions to newspapers Contingencies, including unforeseen expenditure incidental to the other items of the vote 100 23 125 60 135 150 15 1,196 Total—Vote No. 17 ... 608 TOTAL OE GLASS IV £1 3,989