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Appropriations for Consolidated Fund Services.

CLASS VIII.—MINES DEPARTMENT—continued.

[tern. 1910-11. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BRANCH. 1910-11. Total number of officers .. 8 VOTE No. 42. 1 Salaries— Director Geologist Mining Geologist Topographer Assistant Topographer, £175 (8 months) ... Draughtsman Clerk Cadet £ £ 800 350 345 325 117 190 100 100 2,327 5 i; 7 s 9 10 11 12 Other Charges for and incidental to — 2 Books and periodicals 3 Cost of work done by Government Printer I Expenses of Under-Secretary and Director attending Conference of Australasian Institute of Mining Engineers, Mount Morgan, 1910 5 Expert and temporary assistance 6 Field allowances 7 Freight and cartage 8 Instruments 9 Instrument allowances 10 Office equipment and rents 11 Postage, telegrams, and rent of boxes 12 Purchase of petrographical apparatus and working2 3 I 26 750 ! 75 300 140 50 50 60 40 loo 13 II 15 10 expenses 13 Telephones 14 Travelling allowances and expenses 15 Tools, equipment, and field expenses 16 Contingencies, including unforeseen expenditure incidental to the other items of the vote ... 50 10 400 I ,700 j 25 Total—Vote No. 42 ... 3 ,775 6 .102 MISCELLANEOUS SERVICES. 1 2 3 1 6 6 7 8 9 0 .1 12 3 4 VOTE No. 43. Charges for and incidental to — 1 Advertising, books, newspapers, periodicals, and photos 2 Compiling plans of mining claims 3 Cost of work to be done and material supplied by other Departments 4 Cost of Collecting Goldfields Revenue 5 Expenses of Boards of Examiners under Mining and Coal-mines Acts 6 Extinguishing burning coal-seams 7 Expert and temporary assistance, wages, &c. 8 Field surveys and expenses 9 Fuel, light, water, freight, and cartage L0 Grants to libraries in mining townships LI Instruments and apparatus L2 Legal expenses 13 Lodging-allowances of cadets ... L4 Mail-service, Cromarty (half cost) Maintenance and Management of Water-races— L5 Waimea-Kumara 0 Alexandra L7 Mount Ida 100 50 200 50 500 10 50 20 50 LOO 50 50 50 175 5 0 7 2 ,500 500 2,000 |