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Return showing the Total Ordinary Expenditure of the Marine and Inspection of Machinery Department, etc. — continued.
Nature of Expenditure. Details. Totals. Grand Totals. £ 8. d. £ s. d. 5,593 16 0 £ s. d. Brought forward Harbours — continued. Waitapu,— Salary Attending lights Stores 25 0 0 75 0 0 0 4 11 Puponga,— Stores Collingwood,— Salary Stores and contingencies Karamea, — Salary Beacons Removal of snags New house Stores and contingencies Little Wanganui,— Piloting Stores and contingencies Greymouth,— Salary of Harbour Engineer* Okuru,— Salary Stores Okarito, — Salary Piloting Extra wages Cutting channel through bar Stores and contingencies Waikawa, — Salary 139 6 2 47 4 6 23 12 0 220 0 0 45 4 6 60 0 0 30 17 8 11 0 0 4 16 0 100 4 11 13 0 0 90 17 8 475 7 2 15 16 0 420 0 0 60 0 0 9 4 6 69 4 6 50 0 0 45 0 0 11 0 0 10 0 0 15 14 0 131 14 0 16 0 0 Iron buoys Salary of storeman Buoy-chain Buoys and beacons Stores and contingencies 149 0 0 220 0 0 108 15 10 137 13 10 160 15 8 Lighthouses: — Salaries of keepers Oil, stores, and contingencies Lightkeepers' travelling-expenses Salary of Lighthouse Expert 776 5 4 11,151 16 11 7,461 3 3 305 17 6 270 0 0 19,188 17 8 Meteorological Office : — Salaries Extra clerical assistance Postage, telegrams, and rent of boxes.. Weather telegrams by wireless Purchase of instruments Repairs to instrument s (/leaning offices Inspection of stations Printing and stationery Rent, office equipment, Sft. Telephones • • ,- Contingencies 1,314 7 8 13 2 10 1,283 10 5 L00 0 0 25 16 2 2 7 2 24 0 0 12 6 11 107 5 7 178 14 3 39 15 9 1 7 0 Mercantile Marine Offices :— Salaries Rent Cleaning offices Telephones Travelling-expenses Contingencies 4,637 6 5 218 10 2 79 12 3 94 13 3 76 19 1 0 4 6 3,102 13 9 5,107 5 8 Protection of fish and oysters :— Salaries of Inspectors Picking and sale of oysters Planting oysters in Hauraki Gulf Benzene oil and stores Casual labour Collection and distribution of brown-trout ova Grant for maintenance, Portobello Fish-hatchery,— Salaries Repairs, &c. Fresh-water aquarium, Auckland Exhibition . . Hakataramea Salmon Station, — Salaries Working-expenses I mportation of herring, lobsters, &c. 1,074 13 3 4,502 14 8 75 0 8 140 14 11 172 18 0 159 6 8 380 0 0 91 18 10 1,917 4 1 385 0 0 70 4 3 367 15 5 Carried forward 9,337 10 9 35,100 2 8 • Refunded by Oreymouth Harbour Itoarii.