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DETAILS OF ESTIMATES EOR THE

DEPARTMENT OF LANDS AND SURVEY—continued

{a) Number of officers, 206. Motor hire, £235; motor-mileage allowances, £2,026; travellingexpenses, £4,733 ; travelling-allowances, £3,498. (6) Payment to Waikato-Maniapoto Maori Land Board of balance of purchase-price of Ngataipua No. 4 Block, £7 6s. Id. ; compensation for personal effects destroyed by fire in departmental truck, £4 195.; reward for returning canopy lost from departmental truck, £l, custody of packets, 155.; lease fee, £2 2s. ; exchange on dishonoured cheques, 6s. 2d. : total, £l6 Bs. 3d. (c) Work recently completed by Public Works Department—expenditure not yet come to charge. (d) Several works delayed due to shortage of labour and materials. (e) Underexpenditure due to shortage of labour and materials.

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VOTE—LANDS AND SURVEY—continued Subdivision No. I—Administration —continued. 1946-47. 1945-46. Voted. Expended. Other Charges for and incidental to —ctd. P X? f? Transfer and removal expenses X 2,000 X 1,000 2,547 Travelling allowances and expenses — £ Motor hire .. .. .. 300 Motor-mileage allowances .. 2,000 Travelling-allowances .. .. 4,000 Travelling-expenses .. .. 5,000 11,300 8,600 {a) 10,492 Contingencies 50 50 (b) 16 Refunds of credits-in-aid received erroneously during preceding financial year 100 28 213,750 185,655 182,833 Total —Subdivision No. I 596,100 501,655 512,822 Subdivision No II.—Miscellaneous Services Charges for and incidental to— .Access road to Ahipara Gumfields : maintenance (c) 1,000 1,000 Advances for protection of buildings on Crown leasehold properties 100 100 Aranui 1b Block : rent 32 33 32 Commission on purchase of Native lands .. 10 10 . . Compassionate grants to widows of deceased officers 200 200 479 Compensation for injuries to employees while in discharge of their duties, and contingent expenses in connection with same 100 200 92 Crown lands : protecting, clearing, grassing, draining, &c. (general), (part recoverable) .. 3,650 5,000 (d) 2,188 Destruction of rabbits on unoccupied Crown lands : wages and other expenses 6,400 6,000 6,097 Destruction of noxious weeds on unoccupied Crown land 7,000 7,000 (e) 4,582