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Return showing the Total Ordinary Expenditure of the Marine Department— continued.

Nature of Expenditure. Details. Totals. Grand Totals. lighthouses :— Salaries of keepers Oil* Stores and contingencies Lighthouse Expert Lightkeepers' travelling-expenses £ s. d. 10,684 17 10 975 5 2 4,572 4 9 250 0 0 164 0 11 £ s. d. £ s. d. 16.646 8 R leteorological Office:— Salaries of staff and observers Postage and telegrams Instruments and repairs Rent Office equipment Cleaning office Telephones Stores and contingencies 1,139 0 0 870 15 0 157 12 7 140 0 0 40 2 5 20 13 4 16 7 6 18 5 9 lercantile marine offices :■ — Salaries Rent Telephones Cleaning offices Advertising for Surveyor Travelling-expenses Contingencies 2.402 16 . 3,786 1 1 91 13 4 64 6 8 46 0 10 6 18 0 46 10 6 24 10 1 4,066 0 6 •rotection of fish and oysters :— Salaries of Inspectors Picking and sale of oysters Planting oysters in Hauraki Gulf Casual labour Collection, &c, brown-trout ova Grant for maintenance, Portobello Fish-hatchery,— Salaries .. .. .. Repairs Printing scientific report on trawling Experiments with herring-ova Importation of Atlantic-salmon ova Stocking a Westland river with salmon Travelling-expenses Contingencies • .. 924 10 10 2,306 7 2 110 4 2 113 18 0 246 18 0 330 0 0 3 17 4 195 5 6 36 13 10 446 3 0 , 188 13 10 301 19 7 9 8 4 Hakataramea Salmon Station, — Salaries Working-expenses 5,213 19 7 5,213 19 7 356 0 0 65 13 6 421 13 6 421 13 6 5,635 13 1 Less recoveries 36,020 13 3 1,060 7 5 Total 34,960 5 10 government steamers :— Working-expenses, s.s. " Hinemoa " .. Engine-room repairs, s.s. " Hinemoa " Working-expenses, s.s. " Tutanekai " New circulating-pumps, s.s. " Tutanekai " Repairs to deck, &c, s.s. " Tutanekai " Working-expenses, training-ship " Amokura " .. Repairs to training-ship " Amokura " ■ Store and slip for training-ship " Amokura " .. 8,625 4 4 307 3 6 3,157 8 0 85 14 5 435 8 10 6,725 3 0 351 7 6 300 0 0 Less cable services, freights, passages, &c. 19,987 9 7 19,987 9 7 2,547 2 4 2,547 2 4 ilarine miscellaneous services : — Departmental travelling-expenses Administration of Shipping and Seamen Act, and inquiries into shipping casualties Buoys and beacons, — Jackson's Head Kaipara Harbour Cartage and freight Charts, books, &c. Checking overcrowding of steamers Contribution towards New Zealand Sailors' Room, England Extra clerical assistance Fog-signals—cartridges, &c. Compassionate allowance to Mrs. C. T. McGahey Grant for improvement to Foxton Harbour Grant for repairing Waipipi Wharf Grant for renewing Turanga Creek Wharf 17,440 7 3 41 4 4 284 11 8 45 5 2 203 5 10 58 18 10 373 4 9 324 2 3 10 10 0 78 10 0 22 6 10 100 0 0 62 10 0 51 16 9 3 1 0 * Value of oil purchased. For value of oil consumed see Maintenance Return, next 'ago.