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Appropriations for Consolidated Fund Services.

CLASS XXII.—DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE— continued.

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item.: 19 >8-9. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE- continued. VOTE No. 73— continued. VlTICULTURAL DIVISION— Salaries — Viticulturist Clerk (at £165) (1 month) ... £ 80 325 14 339 81 S2 Other Charges incidental to — Postage, telegrams, and rent of boxes Sundry expenses in connection with fostering the wine and grape industry Travelling allowances and expenses 40 83 100 300 440 84 Live-stock and Agriculture Division — Salaries — Chief Inspector of Stock and Director of Experimental Farms 26 Clerks: 1 at £280, 1 at £260, 1 at £225, 1 at £220, 1 at £215,1 at £210, 1 at £200, 1 at £190,1 at £185, 2 at £180, 3 at £170, 4 at £165, 1 at £155, 1 at £150, 1 at £130, 2 at £125, 1 at £120, 1 at £105,1 at £104 20 Cadets: 1 at £95, 2 at £90, 3 at £85, 5 at £75, 6 at £65, 1 at £50,2 at £40 Superintendent of Show Exhibits Inspector of Stock (relieving) ... 8 Inspectors in Charge : 1 at £350,1 at £340, 4 at £335, 2 at £325 59 Inspectors of Stock : 1 at £320,1 at £305,2 at £300, 2 at £295,12 at £290, 13 at £280, 3 at £270,1 at £265, 6 at £255,3 at £250, 3 at £245, 5 at £240, 1 at £235, 4 at £230, 1 at £225, 1 at £185 39 Rabbit Agents: 9 at £200, 11 at £190, 3 at £185, 3 at £180, 3 at £175, 8 at £170, 2 at £160 40 Inspectors of Dairies: 1 at £200, 1 at £187, 1 at £185, 37 at £180 14 Inspectors of Noxious Weeds : 1 at £220 4 at £190, 4 at £175, 5 at £165 Inspector of Noxious Weeds : £160 (7 months) 6 Farm Overseers: 2 at £2L0, 2 at £185, 1 at £165, 1 at £156 Organiser of Agricultural Experiments and Lectures ... Expert in Phormium Culture, at £350 (2 months) Horticulturist Caretaker of offices, Auckland... Caretaker Fruit-testing Station, Tauranga... 3 Quarantine-station Caretakers ; 2 at £140, 1 at, £100 4 Caretakers of Rabbit-fence : 3 at £100, 1 at £50 4 Managers of Poultry-stations : 2 at £140, 2 at £130 575 4 ,529 1,425 175 240 2,680 15 ,790 7,190 7,232 2,505 93 1,111 400 '59 210 100 135 380 350 540 45 ,719 85 86 87 88 89 ■ Other Charges incidental to — Breeding of Angora goats Collection of agricultural and pastoral statistics Cultivation of phormium tenax... Departmental apiaries Departmental exhibits at agricultural and pastoral association shows 250 4 ,000 500 500 850