135

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Appropriations for Consolidated Fund Services.

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE—continued.

ofp™. Item j 1934-35. 1 VOTE No. 24,—AGRICULTURE—continued. 1934-30. ; Subdivision No. II. —Live-stock Division—continued. £ £ Other Charges for and incidental to —continued. Destruction of noxious weeds on — 25 Crown lands (recoverable) ... ... 3,000 26 Native lands (recoverable) ... ... 2,000 27 Other lands (part recoverable) ... ... 25 Destruction of rabbits — 28 On Crown lands (recoverable) ... ... 2,450 29 On Native lands (recoverable) ... 1,250 30 Rabbit-proof gates ... ... ••• 10 Wages and general working-expenses, poisonmixing depots, purchase of material, &c.— 31 Trading section (recoverable) ... ... 3,508 32 Non-trading section (part recoverable) ... 50 Diseases of Live-stock — 33 Applying tuberculin test to cattle and disposing of diseased stock ... ... ... 10 34 Cattle-dip at Mohakatino (part recoverable) ... 103 35 Control of cattle-tick, and provision for caretakers at crossing places ... .. ... 550 36 j Inoculation of calves for " blackleg " ... ... 55 37 ! Experimental Farm, Mamaku : Wages and general working - expenses, buildings, purchase of stock (part recoverable) ... ... ••• 578 38 Inspection of dairies: Purchase of apparatus ... 5 39 Inspection of meat, including purchase of equipment 60 40 Investigation into deficiency diseases of stock, including feeding trials and purchase of material (part recoverable) ... ... ••• 25 41 Law-costs ... ■■ ••• 15 42 Poultry Experimental Station (Wallaceville) : Equipment and working-expenses (partly recoverable) ... 910 43 Quarantine - stations, Auckland and Wellington (partly recoverable) ... ... ... 500 44 Telephone services (including extensions, maintenance, rent, and calls) ... ... ... 900 45 Transfer and removal expenses ... ... 650 46 Travelling allowances and expenses ... ... 11,750 47 Veterinary Laboratory: Wages and general workingexpenses and investigation of diseases (part recoverable) ... ••• ••• 1,511 48 Veterinary Surgeons' Board, expenses of ... 10 49 Contingencies, including unforeseen expenditure incidental to the Live-stock Division items of the division ... ... ... 25 Estimated credits-in-aid under Section 51 of the Public Revenues Act, 1926 (see end of vote)— Destruction of noxious weeds— £ Department of Lands and Survey 3,000 Native Department ... 2,000 Destruction of rabbits ... 3,750 Destruction of rabbitsDepartment of Lands and Survey 2,450 Native Department ... 1,250 Farm areas ... ... 1,400 Investigation, deficiency diseases, &c. ... ... 50 Quarantine-stations ... ... 350 14,250 32,325 Total—Subdivision No. II ... ... — 107,460