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YEAK ENDING 31 MARCH, 1949

AIR DEPARTMENT— continued

REMARKS

(a) This year's estimate includes provision for orders placed last year but not delivered. (Radiosonde, £16,275 ; radar wind, £6,600 ; instruments, £4,153 ; anemometers, £3,000.) (h) Fees payable to voluntary observers and charges payable to Government Departments have been increased. (c) No expenditure came to charge for 1947-48. Provision now made under " Works expenditure," Subdivision No. VII —Civil Aviation Branch, and Subdivision No. IX—South Pacific Trunk Air Route. (d) Estimates for meteorological expenditure, referring to the South Pacific trunk air route have now been included in Subdivision No. IX. The joint requirements of the Meteorological Services and the Civil Aviation Branch for buildings have now been provided for under Subdivision No. VII, " Civil Aviation." (e) Separate accounting for expenditure on the South Pacific trunk air route is now required. Corresponding expenditure for 1947-48 was included in the subdivisions recording civil aviation and meteorological expenditure.

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