B—7 [PT. I]

YEAR ENDING 31 MARCH, 1947

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE—continued

(a) Certain old cars should be replaced. In the meantime heavy upkeep costs are unavoidable. (b) There was delay in obtaining supplies of strychnine. Present stock position adequate.

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1945-46. VOTE—AGRICULTURE—continued 1946-47. Voted. Expended. CY„ T 1' „„ "AT TT 7"* , TV,* ** subdivision JMo. 11 —Live-stock Division (Number of officers : 1946-47, 396 ; £ £ £ 1945-46, 420) Salaries — Other Salaries 396 (£170 to £1,000) 179,600 181,883 172,468 Other Charges for and incidental to — Bicycles and motors — Maintenance and running-costs and State Fire accident-indemnification costs 4,500 3,500 (a) 4,515 Purchase of .. 6,300 3,000 3,045 Cost of passages, Veterinary and Technical Officers, to New Zealand 2,500 2,500 273 Destruction of noxious weeds : Cape tulip control 394 Destruction of rabbits — On Crown lands (recoverable) 5,000 5,000 4,300 On Native lands (recoverable) 2,750 2,750 2,832 Rabbit-proof gates 25 25 14 Wages and general working - expenses, poison-mixing depots, purchase of material, &c.— Trading section (recoverable) 2,000 10,000 (6) 11,308 Non-trading section (part recoverable) .. 25 25 3 Diseases of live-stock — Control of cattle-tick, and provision for spraying or dipping and other incidental expenses 25 25 Disposal of condemned stock, costs incidental to 100 50 32 Purchase of material, and expenses connected with treatment and control of animal diseases (including approved compensation) 1,000 750 736 Inspection of dairies : purchase of apparatus 20 20 10 Inspection and grading of meat, including overall allowance and purchase of equipment 2,350 2,350 2,345 Office expenses 20 20 26 Payments to Post and Telegraph Department 1,850 1,750 1,809