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1948-49. 194/ -48. VOTE—AGRICULTURE—continued Voted. Expended. Subdivision No. IV —Dairy Division —continued £ £ i j £ Other Charges for and incidental to —ctd. j Transfer and removal expenses Travelling allowances and expenses (part recoverable) Travelling-allowances, &c., buttermaking and licensing Committees Contingencies Cost of passages, Milk Marketing Officer from England 1,500 27,500 150 20 1,000 25,000 150 20 690 i 1 j 1 1,020 26,381 303 63,270 58,530 50,080 Total —Subdivision No. IV 183,239 171,526 164,512 Subdivision No. V- —Fields Division (Number of officers : 1948-49, 273 ; 1947-48, 256) Salariesj Professional Division 1 at £1,075 (Director) 1,075 1,063 Other Salaries 272 (£150 to £1,025) 114,210 100,190 I f J 98,939 115,285 101,253 98,939 Other Charges for and incidental to — ! Agricultural investigations and research— Expenses of officers travelling overseas .. Field crops (including contract growing, seed certification, &c.), (recoverable) .. Field experiments 300 21,000 8,800 300 21,000 9,200 {a) 244 21.627 7,161 (a) Australian and New Zealand Association for the Advancement of Science Congress, Perth (1 officer), cost, £194 ; examination of spray irrigation areas in Australia (1 officer), cost, £50: total, £244.