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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. Mercantile Marine Offices :— Salaries .. U*k. • • Jifci •• Cleaning offices .. Offloe equipment and rent Telephones Travelling allowances and expenses Contingencies £ s. d. £ s. d. £ s. d. 4,746 17 10 67 13,49 228 10 10 119 8 0 76 15 6 3 13 6 • 5,242 19 5 Protection of fish and oysters : — Salarios Benzene, oil, stores, &c. Bonuses anil gratuities to officers Casual labour Collection and distribution of brown-trout ova Fresh-water aquarium, Auckland Exhibition Hakataramea Salmon-hatchery Grant for maintenance of fish-hatchery at Portobello Picking and sale of oysters Planting oysters in Hauraki Cult' Stocking a Westland river with salmon Travelling allowances and expenses Contingencies 1,434 2 4 112 9 3 25 0 0 151 10 0 109 7 4 309 18 11 73 18 10 430 0 0 4,305 5 2 87 12 2 150 II 0 195 3 7 104 11 6 Inspection of Machinery and Survey of Ships : — Salaries Advertising, books, and periodicals Collection of inspection fees Rent, eleaniug offices, fuel, and light Telephones Travelling allowances and expenses Contingencies 9,614 6 11 25 3 6 150 0 0 130 8 11 96 17 10 2,902 18 4 12 18 6 7,489 10 1 Less miscellaneous credits 55,532 2 5 809 0 0 12,932 14 0 12,932 14 0 55,532 2 5 809 0 0 54,723 2 5 Government steamers : — S.s. "Hinemoa" .. Training-ship " Amokura " .. 10,419 7 2 7,824 14 9 18,244 J 11 443 13 4 Less amount received for freights, passages, &o. 18,244 1 11 443 13 4 17,800 8 7 Miscellaneous services :— Acquiring land for Beach Reserve, Hauraki Gulf Administration of Shipping and Seamen Act, and inquiries into ship] ling casualties Aquarium, Newtown Park, Wellington Auckland Inland Waterways Commission Jackson's Head Beacon Cartage and freight Charts, books, and periodicals Cheeking overcrowding of excursion steamers Compassionate allowance to widow of late John McVeigh, lightkeeper Compassionate allowance to John Driscoll Contribution towards New Zealand sailors' room, England Expenses in connection with the visit of Professor Princo to report on New Zealand fisheries Extra clerical assistance Fog-signals, cartridges, and maintenance Gas and fuel for offices Grants, — For fishermen's boat-slip, Kaikoura For erection of wharf at Batloy, Kaipara.. For repairs to Karitane Jetty For repairs to Matakohe Wharf For repairs to Waitaria Wharf For repairs to Whakapirau Wharf For clearing out canal at Titri For repairing Miranda Wharf and Bridge Grant to H. W. N. Millais, for special work Grant to R. Pitoaithley, for losses in oonneotion with Wellington Dock Legal expenses Legal and other expenses of Mr. W. T. Jennings, on action to remove him from Waitara Harbour Board Morse signals at I ighthouses New Zealand Nautical Almanac Offloe equipment Payment to diver for examining wreck of s.s. " Kairaki " Postage, telegrams, and rent of boxes. . 253 5 0 297 7 5 285 7 9 461 4 5 52 19 10 136 7 10 232 11 5 488 15 8 250 0 0 50 0 0 17 17 0 1,304 ]7 11 71 3 4 164 18 10 20 12 3 56 0 0 531 3 8 41 18 0 225 0 0 225 0 0 81 17 8 15 0 0 70 17 10 100 0 0 200 0 0 78 8 8 18 17 6 9 9 0 425 16 3 107 15 9 107 15 8 910 19 I