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Appropriations for Consolidated Fund Services.

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

item. 1909-10. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE, COMMERCE, AND TOURISTS— continued. 193 194 195 196 197 198 VOTE No. 75— continued. Commerce and Tourists Division —continued. Subsidies to Coach and Steamee Seevices — Payable to Postal Department — Culverden-Hanmer mail-service ... Fairlie-Hermitage mail-service ... Lumsden-Te Anau mail-service ... Pipiriki-Tokaanu coach service ... Rotorua-Ateamuri, &c, mail-service Wairoa-Waikaremoana mail-service Payable direct to contractors — Steamer, Lake Wanaka 100 293 70 260 25 150 199 50 948 Southeen Lakes and Milpoed Sound— Wages — Curator, Resolution Island (3 months) 27 ;oo iOl !02 !03 Other Charges of and incidental to — Maintenance of wharf, and hut and repairs to tracks, &c, Lake Wanaka Improvements hut Routeburn-Lake Harris Track Mount Cook Glacier, tracks and huts 50 50 50 150 !04 Officers retired or dispensed with — General Manager, Tourists and Health Resorts Department, at £350 (2 months) Secretary, Industries and Commerce Department, at £350 (2 months) Trade Representative, £450 (7 months) Clerk at £157 (5 months) Shorthand-writer and Typiste, £76 (4 months) 2 Photographic Assistants : 1 at £100 (3 months), 1 at £83 (5 months) Agent, Fremantle, West Australia (6 months) Clerk, Rotorua, £156 (5 months) Resident Medical Officer, Te Aroha, £600 (5 months) Assistant Gardener at £125 (3 months) ... Head Bath Attendant and Wife, £300 (5 months) ... Masseuse, £144 (4 months) Bath Attendant, £105 (5 months) Draftsman, £210 (5 months) ... 177 59 59 263 05 25 60 13 65 250 31 125 48 44 88 1,195 Less estimated credits (Agriculture) under section 42 of " The Public Revenues Act, 1908 "... 212 ,029 17,000 Total —Vote No. 75 ... 195 ,029 TOTAL OF CLASS XIV £195,029