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Appropriations for Consolidated Fund Services

CLASS XIV.—DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE, COMMERCE, AND TOURISTS—continued.

Item. 190 1-10. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE, COMMERCE, AND TOURISTS— continued. £ ,£ 45 VOTE No. 75— continued. Fields and Expeeimental Faems Division — continued. Salaries —continued. Caretaker of Rabbit Fence 2 Overseers Poultry-breeding Stations (attached to Experimental Farms) at £130 ... 5 Hemp Graders: 3 at £300, 1 at £260, 1 at £245 ... Hemp Instructor 2 Inspectors of Stock : 1 at £320, 1 at £295 (3 months) 3 Inspectors of Stock : 1 at £280, 1 at £240, 1 at £230 (5 months) I Inspector of Stock at £245 (7 months) ... 10 Rabbit, Agents: 3 at £200, 1 at £190, 1 at £185, 1 at £175, 2 at £170, 2 at £160 (5 months) II Inspectors of Dairies at £180 (5 months) 1 Inspector of Dairies at £180 (2 months)... 1 Inspector of Dairies at £187 (3 months) ... 1 Inspector of Dairies at £180 (7 months) ... 7 Inspectors of Noxious Weeds : 1 at £220, 2 at £190, 1 at £175, 2 at £165, 1 at £160 (5 months) Horticulturist at £210 (4 months) Caretaker of offices, Auckland, at £100 (9 months) Chief Fibre Expert at £325 (5 months) Clerk at £156 (5 months) 100 260 1,405 250 154 313 143 754 825 30 47 105 528 70 75 136 66 22 ,677 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 Other Charges of and incidental to — Cultivation of phormium tenax... Departmental apiaries Destruction of noxious weeds on Native lands Destruction of Rabbits on Crown Lands— Auckland District Napier „ Wellington - West Coast ,, Marlborough-Nelson-Westland ,, Canterbury-Kaikoura ,, Otago „ Destruction of rabbits on Native Lands Expenses in connection with Grading New Zealand Hemp Experimental Farms : Ejection and Repairs of Buildings, Purchase of Stock, Entertainment of Visitors, and General Working— Arataki Bickerstaffe Motuihi Island Moumahaki Quail Island Ruakura Tauranga Waerenga ... Weraroa Experimental plots Experiments in re-grassing denuded lands... Instruction to officers, and cost of necessary appliances Postage, telegrams, and rent of boxes Poultry Farms (attached to Experimental Farms) : Buildings, Purchase of Birds, &c.— Moumahaki Ruakura 100 300 1,700 3 ,500 I ,500 800 100 600 3 ,500 3 ,000 50 57 58 59 00 61 02 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 800 800 700 2,800 300 5,100 750 5,000 3 ,500 1,000 200 100 1 ,000 70 71 500 500