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Appropriations for Consolidated Fund Services.
DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE—continued.
Number ītem. 1Q34. of Persons. VOTE No. 24,—AGRICULTURE—continued. ao " 1934-35. Subdivision No. V.—Fields Division—continued. £ £ Other Charges for and incidental to —continued. 107 Contingencies, including unforeseen expenditure incidental to the Fields Division items of the division ... ... ... 10 Estimated credits-in-aid under Section 51 of the Public Revenues Act, 1926 (see end of vote) — Farm areas ... ... £6,250 Field crops ... ... 2,000 Grading hemp ... ... 600 Houmahaki Endowment ... 550 Plant diseases ... ... 250 Seed-testing ... ... 1,000 Weraroa Endowment ... 50 10,700 20,490 Total—Subdivision No. V ... ! 48,718 Subdivision No. VI.—Payments under Statutes. Charges for and incidental to — 108 Expenditure, including compensation for stock comdemned under Stock Act, 1908 (part recoverable) 6,500 109 Expenditure, including compensation under Slaughtering and Inspection Act, 1908, and Amendment Act, 1910 ... ... ... 10, f~50 110 Massey Agricultural College Act, 1926, Section 23: Annual grant ... ... ... 9,448 111 Eabbit Nuisance Act, 1908, Section 70 : Subsidies to Rabbit Boards ... ... 11,500 Estimated credits-in-aid under Section 51 of the Public Revenues Act, 1926 (see end of vote) — £ Stock Act ... ... 500 Total—Subdivision No. VI ... ... ■■■■ 38,198 Subdivision No. VII.—Miscellaneous Services : Advances, Grants, Guarantees, Subsidies, dc. Charges for and incidental to — Advances — 112 Purchase of fodder, &c., starving stock, Wairarapa District (recoverable) ... ... ... 5 113 Purchase of fodder for stock, Hawke's Bay flood area (recoverable) ... ... ... 5 114 Blackberry, bonus for extermination of (£10,000), on account ... ... ... 5 115 Compensation for pigs destroyed, buildings demolished, including cleaning up premises (swine fever outbreak) ... ... ... 45 116 Expenditure in connection with anthrax area taken over by Crown ... ... ... 80 117 Expenditure in connection with importation and exportation of lemons allowed to be landed in New Zealand in error ... ... 20 '