93

B—7

Appropriations for Consolidated Fund Services.

MINES DEPARTMENT—continued.

Number Item> 1Q9^_9fi 01 Persons. VOTE No. 20.—MINES DEPARTMENT—continued. 1925-26. Subdivision No. II.—Geological Survey Branch — continued. £ £ Other Charges for and incidental to —continued. 8 Fuel, light, and water ... ... ... 50 9 Instruments, purchase of ... ... ... 20 10 Instruments: Repairs and maintenance and outfit allowances ... ... ... 150 11 Mineral specimens'. Collection and purchase ... 50 12 Office fittings and requisites ... ... 60 13 Postage, telegrams, and rent of boxes ... ... 50 14 Printing bulletins, lithographing, &c. ... ... 800 | 15 Printing and stationery ... ... ... 30 16 Rents ... ... ... 470 17 Telephone services (including installation, extensions, maintenance, rent, and calls) ... ... 25 18 Travelling allowances and expenses ... ... 250 19 Tools and field equipment ... ... ... 150 20 Wages of field hands ... ... ... 900 21 Contingencies, including unforeseen expenditure incidental to the other items of this subdivision ... 30 Estimated credits-in-aid under Section 48 of the Public Revenues Act, 1910 (see end of vote) — Printing bulletins ... ... £40 3,725 Total —Subdivision No. II ... 8,210 Subdivision No. III.—Miscellaneous Services. Charges for and incidental to — 22 Advertising, photographs, books, newspapers, and other publications ... ... 70 Assistance towards — 23 Ambulance classes ... ... ... 25 24 Bonus of £2,000 for the successful manufacture of briquettes or of coke and any other by-products from sub-bituminous or brown coal slack for commercial purposes ... ... ... 100 25 Bounty payable to Onakaka Iron and Steel Company (Limited), under the Iron and Steel Industries Act, 1914 ... ... ... j 7,212 26 Experiments in connection with inflammability of coal-dust ... ... ... ! 80 27 Maintenance of roads and works ... ... i 2,000 28 Prospecting ... ... ... 12,000 29 Collecting goldfields revenue (partly recoverable) ... 250 30 Diamond and other drills and appliances (partly recoverable) ... ... ... 1,250 31 Examinations, Mining and Coal-mines Acts ... 110 32 Experiments in connection with utilization of brown coals ... ... ... 137 33 Freight, cartage, and transport charges... ... 50 34 Fuel, light, water, and cleaning ... ... 40 Grants— 35 Granity Creek Outlet ... ... ... 88 36 Libraries in mining townships ... ... 50 37 Mining Conference at Dunedin ... ... 250 38 Thames water-race repairs .. ... 100 39 Instruments and apparatus ... ... ... 10 40 Instrument and outfit allowance for Chief Inspector of 1 Mines and repairs and maintenance of instruments 30