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Return showing the Total Expenditure of the Marine and Inspection of Machinery Department, etc. — continued.

Nature of Expenditure. Details. Totals. Grand Totals. Mercantile Marine Offices :— Salaries Cleaning offices Offico equipment and rent Telephones Travelling allowances and oxpensos Contingencies .. .. .. Extra clerical assistance Inspection of machinery and survey of ships : — Salaries Advertising, books, and periodicals Collection of inspection fees Rent, cleaning offices, &o. Telephones Travelling allowances and expenses Contingencies .. .. ... £ s. d. 7,279 11 9 2 15 6 210 16 2 23 19 3 247 5 4 290 5 II 500 0 5 C s. d. 8,554 14 4 tt s. d. 12,430 18 6 62 13 I 150 0 0 111 4 1 157 5 8 4,293 11 7 34 3 0 Protection of fish and oysters :— Salaries Benzine, oil, stores, &c. Casual labour Catching and marketing of salmon Hakataramea Salmon-hatchery ... Grant for maintenance of fish-hatehery at Portobello Picking and sale of oysters Planting oysters Stocking rivers with salmon Subsidy to Portobello Fish-hatchery Travelling allowances and expenses Contingencies Bonuses and gratuities 1,932 I 11 425 12 8 151 1 6 178 9 10 67 9 7 500 0 0 0,445 0 8 262 1 11 326 7 0 10 0 0 372 2 10 233 10 11 35 0 0 17,239 10 11 76,364 10 0 10,938 18 10 Government steamers :— ■ S.s. " Hinemoa " .. Training-ship " Amokura " .. Installation of wireless, Training-ship " Amokura " S.s. " Rama " S.s. " Tutanekai " .. Repairs to training-ship 13,257 5 9 10,228 15 5 530 7 0 813 19 2 2,594 10 0 1,096 16 2 Miscellaneous services : — Administration of the Shipping and Seamen Act and inquiries into shipping casualties Waitapu leading-lights Carriage and freight .. .. .. Checking overcrowding on steamers Contribution to New Zealand Sailors' Room, England .. I'iako River leading-lights Expenses connected with examinations Extra clerical assistance Fog-signals, cartridges, <fcc. Gas and fuel for offices - .. Audit fees.. .. .. .. .. . <s Office equipment .. .. .. .. Postage, telegrams, &c. Preparation of tide-tables Printing and stationery Relief of distressed seamen Allowances to officer under Public Service Regulations .. Charts, books, &e. Amount required to make good cash stolen from oyster depot Superannuation of It. C. Hunter, injured on " Tutanekai " Survey of unseaworthy ships Telephones Travelling allowances and expenses Contingencies Prosecutions undcr Shipping, Harbours, and Fisheries Acts War bonus to officers Contribution of salary, Wharfinger, Mokau Harbour Board Waterside Works Commission .. .... Repairing wharf, Okura .. ., ... New Zealand Nautical Almanac Contribution towards rent of High Commissioner's Office, London Refund to Union S.S. Company Removing snags, Karamoa Removing willows, Waiotu Stream Repairing and improving Kenepuru Canal 28,521 13 6 276 14 8 135 4 6 104 18 I 417 4 3 17 17 0 40 0 0 178 19 6 1,083 17 3 116 3 5 23 8 1 75 0 0 105 16 1 926 5 11 430 10 0 2,006 13 1 240 11 2 170 13 0 52 19 1 2 3 0 90 0 0 117 0 101 19 0 - 149 0 2 182 7 1 87 17 9 2,735 19 11 25 0 0 525 0 0 112 7 9 414 8 9 100 0 0 3 3 0 43 10 0 75 12 0 17 5 9 Less Credits 11,085 16 3 297 0 0 10,788 16 3 Grand total 115,674 19 9