8.-7.

Appropriations for Consolidated Fund Services.

CLASS XIX.—MARINE AND HARBOURS, ETC., DEPARTMENTS— continued.

93

Item. 1908-9. MARINE AND HARBOURS— continued. 83 VOTE No. 66— continued. £ Superintendents of Mercantile Marine and Examiners of Masters and Mates— Salaries — leach at Auckland, Wellington, Lyttelton, and Dunedin, 3 at £340, 1 at £305 ... ... '... \ 1,325 Examiner of Masters and Mates and Surveyor of Ships, Auckland ... ... ... I 300 Assistant to Superintendent,Mercantile Marine,Dunedin 165 Assistant to Superintendent, Mercantile Marine, Wellington ... ... ... ; 172 Assistant to Superintendent, Mercantile Marine, Auckland ... ... ... 145 2 ,107 84 Surveyors of Ships, etc.— Salaries — Wellington : Surveyor and Assistant Superintendent of Mercantile Marine ... ... ...I 240 Auckland: Surveyor and Assistant Superintendent of Mercantile Marine ... ... ... | 240 Lvttelton : Surveyor and Assistant Superintendent of I "Mercantile Marine ... ... ... 220 Dunedin : Surveyor and Assistant Superintendent of Mercantile Marine ... ... ... 280 3 Load-line Inspectors : 1 at £20, 2 at £10 ... 40 Contribution to Postal Department for services performed by Postmaster at Tauranga ... ... j 25 1,045 85 86 87 88 89 Other Charges incidental to — Cleaning offices ... ... ... 40 Office equipment and rent ... ... ... 100 Telephones ... ... ... 35 Travelling allowances and expenses ... ... 25 Contingencies, including unforeseen expenditure incidental to the other items of the vote ... ... : 25 225 ! 1,270 90 Protection of Fish and Oysters— Salaries — Chief Inspector of Fisheries ... ... ... 360 13 Inspectors : 1 at £170, 1 at £150, 1 at £100, 1 at £75, 1 at £25, 1 at £24, 1 at £16 (six months), 1 at £15, 1 at £12, 3 at £10, 1 at £7 10s., 1 at £5 ... 622 Wages of attendants, Hakataramea Hatchery ... 352 91 92 93 94 95 1,334 Other Charges incidental to— Administration of "The Fisheries Act, 1908" ... 6,250 Casual labour ... ... . . 100 Collection a*nd distribution of brown-trout ova ... 150 Experimental trawling ... ... | 18 Grants for costs and maintenance of Fish-hatcheries — Portobello Fish-hatchery Board ... ... | 250 Salmon-hatchery at Hakataramea ... ... i . 150 Grant for cost and maintenance of fish-hatchery, Southland Acclimatisation Society ... ... | 1,000 Grant to Marlborough Acclimatisation Society for hatchery and rearing trout ... ... 50 Grant for site for fish-hatchery, Fairfax ... ... i 250 96 97 98