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DETAILS OF ESTIMATES FOR THE

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE—continued

(a) The Wallaceville Station is being absorbed in the Poultry Demonstration Plant, Upper Hutt. (&) Many transfers will be necessary to adjust wartime arrangements. (c) Officers travelling frequently, 171. Allowances, £6,230 ; expenses, £2,582 ; motor hire, £2,962; motor-mileage, £5,450. (d) Accidental damage to telephone-lines, £3.

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VOTE—AGRICULTURE—continued 1946-47. 1945-46. Subdivision No. II—Live-stock Division —ctd. Voted. Expended. Other Charges for and incidental to —ctd. Pig recording, purchase of apparatus, and expenditure in connection with, demonstrations, &c. Poultry Demonstration Plant, Upper Hutt: equipment and working-expenses (part recoverable) Poultry Experimental Station (Wallaceville): equipment and working-expenses (part recoverable) Poultry industry: purchase of apparatus Preservation of curd (recoverable) Quarantine Station (Wellington): equipment and working-expenses (part recoverable).. Registration and licensing of stallions: examination fees and living and locomotion expenses Registration of stock remedies, expenses of Transfer and removal expenses Travelling allowances and expenses Veterinary Surgeons' Board, expenses of .. Visits overseas : expenses, &c., of officers .. Wool instruction : purchases for demonstrations Contingencies £ 100 9,650 200 50 500 700 25 50 (b) 2,000 20,000 75 170 200 25 £ 100 2,000 500 400 25 25 1,250 15,000 50 150 25 £ 26 {a) 1,947 547 1 33 897 (c) 17,224 56 107 (d)3 62,604 51,290 52,089 Total —Subdivision No. II 242,204 233,173 224,557 Subdivision No. III. —Horticulture Division (Number of officers : 1946-47,83; 1945-46, 75) Salaries— Other Salaries 83 (£95 to £1,000) 37,940 36,607 34,865