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Appropriations for Consolidated Fund Services

CLASS VIII.—MINES DEPARTMENT- continued.

item. 19' i9-10. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BRANCH. £ £ 1909-10. Total number of officers .. 6 VOTE No. 41. Salaries— Director Geologist Mining Geologist Assistant Geologists: 2 at £185, 2 at £175 (5 months) Topographer Assistant Topographer at £200 (5 months) Draughtsman at £210 (5 months) Assistant Draughtsman at, £130 (5 months) Shorthand-writer and Typist at £215 (5 months) Clerk 800 350 335 300 325 84 88 55 90 115 Othee Charges op and incidental to — Books and periodicals Cost of work done by Government Printer Expert and temporary assistance Field allowances Freight and cartage Instruments Instrument allowances Office equipment and rents Postage, telegrams, and rent of boxes Purchase of petrographical apparatus and working2,542 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 50 1 ,000 200 160 50 50 43 40 150 12 13 14 15 expenses Telephones Travelling allowances and expenses Tools, equipment, and field expenses Contingencies, including unforeseen expenditure incidental to the other items of the vote ... 50 10 400 3,000 25 Total —Vote No. 41 ... 5 ,228 7 ,77i MISCELLANEOUS SERVICES. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 1.1 12 13 14 15 VOTE No. 42. Charges of and incidental to — Advertising, books, newspapers, periodicals, and photos Buffalo Domain, Coromandel Compiling plans of mining claims Cost of work to be done and material supplied by other Departments Cost of Collecting Goldfields Revenue Expenses of Boards of Examiners under Mining and Coal-mines Acts Extinguishing burning coal-seams Expert and temporary assistance, wages, Ac. Field surveys and expenses Fuel, light, water, freight, and cartage Grants to libraries in mining townships Instruments and apparatus Legal expenses Lodging-allowances of cadets ... Mail-service, Cromarty (half cost.) Maintenance and Management of Water-races — Waimea-Kumara Alexandra Mount Ida 100 100 50 100 50 300 10 200 20 70 100 50 100 50 175 10 17 18 2,500 500 2 ,000