8.—7

Appropriations for Consolidated Fund- Services.

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

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Item. 1918-19. AGRICULTURE, INDUSTRIES, AND COMMERCE — continued. VOTE No. 66— continued. Fields Division — continued. Other Charges for and, incidental to —continued. Bicycles, Motors, and repairs Bonus for improvements in phormium - dressing machinery Compassionate allowance to J. Devitt, jun. Compensation to G. N. King, for injury sustained while in execution of his duty at Ruakura Farm of Instruction Co-operative Field Crop Experiments and Provision for Visitors— £ Wages ... ... 500 • Other expenses ... ... 1,500 £ £ 300 68 69 70 71 100 104 170 72 73 Destruction of Noxious Weeds on Native Lands— Wages ... . ... 500 Other expenses ... ... 100 2,000 600 74 Destruction of Rabbits on Crown Lands — Wages ... ... 7,000 Other expenses ... ... 5,000 12,000 75 Destruction of Rabbits on Native Lands— Wages ... ... 8,000 Other expenses ... ... 1,500 9,500 Experimental and .Instructional Farms : General Working, Rent of Land, Buildings, Purchase of Stock, Provision for Visitors, and Salaries of Student Assistants, Learners, Special Instructors, and Domestic Assistants, — Moumahaki— £ Wages ... ... 1,200 Other expenses ... ... 3,300 76 ;» 774,500 Ruakura— Wages .,.. 3,500 Other expenses ... ... 4,500 8,000 78 W eraroa— Wages ... ... 3,000 Other expenses ... ... 5,000 79 Ashburton— Wages ... ... 600 Other expenses ... ... 900 8,000 80 1,500 West Coast, South Island — Wages ... ... 1,000 Other expenses ... ... 2,000 3,000 81 Experimental Areas : North Auckland Gum Lands — Wages ... ... 500 Other expenses ... — 500 82 83 Winton Experiments in Regrassing Denuded Lands — Wages ... ... 50 Other expenses ... ... 50 1,000 500 100 100 84 Experiments in tho control of drifting sand