SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATES, 1939-40.

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of Persons. For Services chargeable on the Consolidated Fund— £ J £ £ continued. 1930-401938-39 ORDINARY REVENUE ACCOUNT—continued. ' VOTE No. .—SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL RESEARCH—continued. Subdivision No. II.—Research Investigations—continued. Plant Chemistry— . Charges for and incidental to — Cost of passage of officer from England to New Zealand . . (a) 80 Dairy Research— Salaries — N ON-PERMANENT. 1 1 (£320), (part year) .. .. .. .. .. 260 Geophysical Survey— Charges for and incidental to — Grant towards additional expenses of officer who visited United States of America last year to purchase equipment (b) 4-5 Plant Research— i Charges for and incidental to — Cost of fitting up laboratory for Botany Division .. (c) 100 Chemicals, apparatus, equipment, and implements (additional) (d) 210 Experimental areas, operating-expenses, including stores, cultivation, general maintenance, also fencing, roading, drainage, access, erection of insectaries and glasshouses, and other improvements (additional) .. .. (e) 150 460 Soil Survey— Salaries— Professional Division. Class VII— 1 I • • 1 (£80 to £305), (part year) .. .. .. .. 125 ! . Other Charges for and incidental to — Cost of fitting up chemical laboratory in new premises .. (/) 502 627 Research Associations — Tobacco — Charges for and incidental to — Cost of new buildings, purchase of land, legal charges, fencing, roading, and other capital charges (additional) .. (g) 425 Instruments, apparatus, furniture, and plant (additional) (h) 325 ! 750 Estimated credits-in-aid under Section 51 of the Public Revenues Act, 1926 (see end of vote) — Recoveries on account of research .. £100 j Total —Subdivision No. II 3,122