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YEAE ENDING 31 MARCH, 1948

MARINE DEPARTMENT— continued

(a) No extra planting this year. (b) Provision made for expenditure which did not come to charge last financial year.

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1947-48. 1946-47. Y OTE—MARINE—continued Voted. Expended. £ £ £ Subdivision No. VI—Fisheries —continued Other Charges for and incidental to —ctd. Office fittings and requisites and office repairs 170 100 161 Overtime and meal allowances 40 10 48 Payments to Post and Telegraph Department 160 150 172 Picking and sale of oysters (recoverable) 5,250 5,500 4,766 Planting oysters (recoverable), (on account) .. (a) 500 6,000 5,420 Portobello Marine Fish Hatchery Board: grant 450 450 450 Printing and stationery 250 200 239 Prosecutions under the Fisheries Act, 1908 .. 300 150 302 Rent .. .. .. 10 250 22 Repairs, fittings, and maintenance of buildings 2,060 2,070 (b) 10 Salmon fisheries, expenses in connection with 150 500 432 Toheroas: investigation, research, and protection, &c. 75 130 88 Transfer and removal expenses of officers .. 70 10 80 Travelling allowances and expenses 1,600 1,100 1,556 Contingencies 10 10 Barges, purchase of 400 400 Portobello Marine Fish Hatchery Board: repairs 150 152 27,100 26,570 21,028 Total—Subdivision No. VI 44,515 41,055 38,319 Subdivision No. VII—Westport Harbour (Number of officers : 1947-48, 30 ; 1946-47, 29) Salaries— Other Salaries 30 (£190 to £1,000) 13,202 12,463 13,892