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Return showing the Total Ordinary Expenditure of the Marine Department, etc. —contd.

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Nature of Expenditure. Details. Totals. Grand Totals. Lighthouses :— Salaries of keepers Oil .. .. Stores and contingencies Lighthouse Expert Light-keepers' travelling-expenses £ s. d. 11,194 14 9 1,237 10 8 4,289 18 1 260 0 0 268 3 6 £ s. d. £ s. d. Meteorological Office: — Salaries Postage and telegrams Wireless telegrams Instruments and repairs Rent Cleaning offices Office equipment Telephones Contingencies I 1,214 10 0 1.111 13 3 75 0 0 264 0 4 140 0 0 24 0 0 130 6 3 34 15 4 54 6 9 17,250 7 0 3,048 11 11 Mercantile marine offices :— Salaries Rent Telephones Cleaning offices Equipment, &c, of new office, Lyttelton Travelling-expenses Contingencies I j 4,310 15 5 150 6 8 90 1 7 68 17 0 70 11 0 44 12 11 39 19 6 4,775 4 1 Protection 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, &c. Importation of Atlantic-salmon ova Importation of herring, lobsters, &c. Stocking Westland rivers with salmon Travelling-expenses Contingencies Hakataramea Salmon Station, — Salaries Working-expenses 1.009 18 7 3,876 0 1 22 12 6 47 6 0 106 8 5 295 0 0 50 12 8 3 12 6 277 16 4 70 3 6 433 17 7 53 11 11 6,738 17 7 376 0 0 115 17 6 Less recoveries 39,415 19 9 1,124 15 8 Total 38,291 4 1 Government steamers: — Installation of wireless apparatus Working-expenses, s.s. " Hinemoa " .. Repairs to s.s. " Hinemoa " .. Working-expenses, s.s. " Tutanekai" Repairs to decks, &c. ? s.s. " Tutanekai " Expenses, training-ship " Amokura " .. Repairs. &c. training-ship " Amokura " 180 0 0 9,953 0 7 177 7 6 1,951 8 4 344 0 0 6,639 6 3 1,115 0 0 i 20,360 2 8 1,713 6 9 Less cable services, freights, passages, &c. i 18,646 15 11 Marine miscellaneous services :— Departmental travelling-expenses Administration of Shipping and Seamen Act, and inquiries into shipping casualties Audit fees for inspection of acoounts Buoys and beacons, — Jackson's Head Kaipara Harbour Cartage and freight Charts, books, &c. Castle Point Wharf.. Checking overcrowding of steamers Expenses of burial of deceased seaman (L. R. Domey) at Westport Expenses of burial of deceased seaman (A. Burgess), late of s.s. "Mullogh" Grant for repairing Half-moon Bay Wharf Grant to Westland Acclimatization Society Extra clerical assistance Grant for renewing Turanga Creek Wharf Grant for repairing Karitane Jetty Grant to British and Foreign Sailors' Society's building, Lyttelton 40 6 4 482 14 9 50 0 0 84 1 7 449 8 8 92 9 3 539 19 9 250 0 0 420 19 7 2 0 0 10 10 0 115 0 0 50 0 0 28 0 0 172 4 0 50 0 0 250 0 0