8.—7.

Appropriations for Consolidated Fund Services.

CLASS XXII.—DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE— continued.

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Item. 19 18-9. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE— continued. 97 98 99 100 101 102 103 104 105 106 107 108 109 110 111 112 90 91 92 93 94 95 96 I I VOTE No. 73— continued. Live-stock and Agriculture Division — continued. Other Charges incidental to —continued. Destruction of Rabbits on Crown Lands— Auckland District Napier „ Wellington - West Coast ,, Marlborough-Nelson-Westland „ Canterbury-Kaikoura „ Otago „ Destruction of rabbits on Native Lands Experimental Farms : Erection and Repairs of Buildings, Purchase of Stock, and Entertainment of Visitors— Arataki Bickerstaffe Expenses : Sections, Moumahaki Village Settlement Experimental plots Moumahaki Ruakura Tauranga Waerenga: General Waerenga Vineyard Weraroa Inoculation of calves for "black-leg " Instruction to officers, and cost of necessary appliances Postage, telegrams, and rent of boxes Purchase of stud stock, including expenses of importation Purchase of weed-infested chaff Purchase of land for additions to Tauranga Experimental Station Purchase of requisites in connection with the inspection of dairies Purchase of portion of closed road, Ruakura Quarantine-stations, Auckland, Wellington, and Lyttelton : Purchase of stock therefor, and maintenance Removal expenses Road—Moumahaki Experimental Farm Road—Waerenga Experimental Farm Stud stock Testing stock and disposing of diseased cattle Travelling allowances and expenses Wages and expenses in connection with destruction of noxious weeds 5,000 1,200 800 100 600 3,500 100 1,000 1,000 250 1 ,500 3,000 5,500 1,250 4,500 500 4 ,000 200 500 1,500 2 ,000 450 1,100 113 114 115 100 18 116 117 118 119 120 121 122 1 ,500 1,100 150 200 2,250 50 10 ,000 500 61,518 Less estimated credits under section 42 of " The Public Revenues Act, 1908 " 181,817 22 ,000 Total—Vote No. 73 ... 159 ,817 TOTAL OF CLASS XXII £W ,817