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Appropriations for Consolidated Fund Services.

MINES DEPARTMENT—continued.

(a) Credits-in-aid— Other Salaries. Charges. 1926-26. £ £ £ Subdivision I .. 450 .. 450 II .. 40 40 111 .. .. 620 620 Totals .. 450 660 1,110

1925-26. 1 VOTE No. 20—MINES DEPARTMENT—continued. 1925-26. Subdivision No. III.—Miscellaneous Services—contd. £ £ Chabges foe and incidental to —continued. 41 Law-costs ... ... ... 100 42 Maintenance of Water-races : Waimea-Kumara ... 620 43 Motor-cars (maintenance) ... ... ... 500 44 Office fittings and requisites (including typewriters) 50 45 Postage, telegrams, and rent of boxes ... ... 250 46 Printing and stationery ... • ... ... 450 47 Eefunds of revenue under section 154 (3) of the Mining Act, 1908 (recoverable) ... ... ... 50 48 Bents .. ... ... 571 49 Eents, &c., in connection with the leases and plant of the Blenheim Oil Company (dissolved) ... 413 50 Schools of Mines ... ... ... 4,000 Subsidies— 51 Drybread Sludge Channel (£1 for £1) ... 200 52 Kauaeranga Water-race, Thames (£1 for £4) ... 200 53 Proposed Jubilee of pioneer miners at Kumara (£1 for £1) ... ... ... 100 54 Telephone services (including installation, extensions, maintenance, rent, and calls) ... ... 180 55 Travelling allowances and expenses ... ... 1,800 56 Contingencies, including unforeseen expenditure incidental to the other items of this subdivision ... 20 Estimated credits-in-aid under Section 48 of the Public Eevenues Act, 1910 (see end of vote) — Collecting goldfields revenue ... £20 Drilling-expenses ... ... 500 « Printing and stationery, publications, &c. ... ... 50 Eefunds of revenue ... ... 50 620 Total—Subdivision No. Ill ... 33,356 i Subdivision No. IV.—Board of Inquiry ; New Zealand Goals. Chabges fob and incidental to — 57 Board of Inquiry re suitability of New Zealand coals for New Zealand Eailways ... ... 700 Total—Subdivision No. IV ... 700 Geosh Total ... ... ... ... 53,080 Ceedits-in-aid (a) ... ... ... ... 1,110 NET TOTAL—VOTE No. 20 ... 51,970