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Return showing the Total Expenditure of the Marine and Inspection of Machinery Department during the Financial Year ended 31st March, 1920 — continued.

Details. Totals. Mercantile Marine Offices :— Salaries Cleaning offices Office equipment and rent .. . . Telephones Travelling allowances and expenses Extra clerical assistance Contingencies £ S. d. • 8,755 12 3 12 0 198 8 2 122 3 0 320 13 0 484 1 4 2 16 6 £ s. d. Inspection of machinery and survey of ships : — Salaries Advertising, books, periodicals, &c. Collection of inspection fees Compassionate allowance (Pyke) Rent, cleaning offices, &c. Telephones Travelling allowances and expenses .. Contingencies 9,884 16 3 15,969 17 5 58 8 6 150 0 0 365 0 0 134 0 6 174 9 2 4,921 3 2 122 15 2 21,895 13 11 Protection of fish and oysters :— Salaries Benzine, oil, stores, &e. Casual labour Cost of Fisheries Commission Hakataramea Salmon-station Hatchery Erection of stop-banks at Haka Expenses of visit to Australia Grant for maintenance, Portobello Picking and sale of oysters Planting of oysters Re-erection of salmon-hatchery shed Stocking rivers with salmon Subsidy, Portobello Fish-hatchery Board Travelling allowances and expenses Contingencies 2,250 10 9 410 1.8 1 202 11 10 592 2 7 65 17- 6 338 18 6 149 5 ,8 500 0 0 3,764 16 5 149 10 0 232 10 4 232 13 1 10 0 0 350 I 9 34 3 0 Less Collection of brown-trout ova (credit balance) £9,283 19 6 64 5 4 Government steamers :— Salaries Training-ship " Amokura " Installation of wireless New training-ship S.s. " Hinemoa " S.s. " Tutanekai" 1,524 14 6 8,826 14 8 68 15 9 321 1 10 15,603 11 2 16,421 17 4 £9,219 14 2 Miscellaneous :— Administration, Shipping and Seamen Act, &c. Waitapu leading-lights Carriage and froight Checking overcrowding on steamers Contribution to Now Zealand Sailors' Room, England Expenses connected with examinations Extra clerical assistance Eog-signals, cartridges, &c. Gas and fuel for offices Audit fees Office equipment Postage, telegrams, &c. Preparation of tide-tables Printing and stationery.. Relief of distressed seamen Allowances to officers under Publio Service Regulations Charts, books, ifec. Superannuation of R. C. Hunter.. Survey of unseaworthy ships Telephones Travelling allowances and expenses Contingencies Prosecutions Contribution to Mokau Harbour Board (salary) Rent of High Commissioner's Office, London 1'iako River leading-lights Compensation to I. Hunt Repairs to Ruawai Wharf Removal of willows, Waiotu Stream Repairs to Waikawa Bay 283 14 9 90 0 0 123 14 1 439 10 3 17 17 0 113 13 7 1,046 5 10 63 14 5 25 13 3 75 0 0 145 13 3 I,034 7 II 412 10 0 1,337 5 1 39 17 3 89 3 5 202 3 3 90 0 0 18 16 0 149 18 0 193 13 3 325 14 5 46 1 9 42,766 15 3 100 0 0 70 14 3 237 2 7 397 0 0 94 2 0 96 9 5 7,359 15 0 Less — "New Zealand Nautical Almanacs" (credit balance) Relief, &c, crew of " Awanui " (credit balance) .. Renewal of wharves (credit balance) 103 13 2 314 16 4 68 3 0 486 12 6 Grand total 6,873 2 6 131,568 1 11