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Appropriations for Consolidated Fund Services

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

Item. Item. AGRICULTURE, INDUSTRIES, AND COMMERC E— continued. 191 1-14. i 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 90 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 100 101 102 VOTE No. 78— continued. '■■ Fields and Expemmental Farms Division — continued. Other Charges for and incidental to —continued, Experiments in cultivating North Auckland gum lands Experiments in regrassing denuded lands... Experiments in the control of drifting-sand areas Experiments in the control of fof-glove Experiments in utilization of pumice lands Experiments on Crown lands, Westland ... Extra clerical assistance Grading grain Grading New Zealand hemp ... Investigation of phormium pests Legal expenses Postage, telegrams, and rent of boxes Purchase of live-stock for fattening on Experimental Farms Purchase of stud stock, including expenses of importation Removal expenses Seeds and plants for distribution Subscriptions and extensions to telephones, including bureau charges Subsidies to local bodies for the destruction of the kea Travelling allowances and expenses Wages and expenses in connection with destruction of noxious weeds Contingencies, including unforeseen expenditure incidental to the Fields and Experimental Farms Division items of the vote" ... £ £ 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 90 91 92 93 94 800 500 200 15 500 450 100 10 50 50 50 1,000 95 96 97 98 500 2,000 300 25 99 100 101 50 60 10,100 102 500 50 65,690 103 108 Oechaeds, Gabdens, and Apiaeies Division — Salaries — Director Assistant Director 4 Clerks : 1 at £245, 1 at £220, 1 at £150, 1 at £120 ... Cadet Vine and Wine Instructor 4 Fruit Inspectors : 2 at £190, 2 at £180 ... 16 Orchard Instructors : 3 at £240, 3 at £220, 2 at £210, 3 at £200,1 at £190, 3 at £180, 1 at £170, 1 at £20... 4 Apiary Instructors: 1 at £190, 2 at £180, 1 at £160 575 380 735 66 220 740 3 ,320 710 104 105 106 107 108 109 110 111 112 113 114 115 116 117 Other Charges for and incidental to — Bicycles and repairs Co-operative fruit-testing plots Extra clerical assistance Fostering the bee industry Fostering the fruit industry ... . ... Fumigation and destruction of diseased fruit Grant towards cost of printing report of Beekeepers' Conference Grant towards printing report of conference of New Zealand Fruit Growers' Associations Grant towards prize fund, Auckland Exhibition Fruit Show Importation and breeding of natural enemies to insect pests Legal expenses Outbreaks of orchard and garden diseases ... Postages, telegrams, and rent of boxes Removal expenses 6,746 104 105 106 107 108 109 110 500 250 25 100 100 150 111 10 112 25 25 50 20 100 350 150