B—7 [Pt. I]

YEAE ENDING 31 MARCH, 1949

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE— continued

(a) Boards concerned were not fully equipped to carry out the programme of work envisaged. (6) Compulsory T.B. testing was deferred pending decision regarding compensation rates payable on stock condemned. {c) Increasing expenditure due to formation of additional Boards, and also to the levying of higher rates.

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1947-48. 1948-49. £ VOTE—AGRICULTURE— continued Voted. Expended. £ £ Subdivision No. VIII — Miscellaneous Services : Advances, Grants, Guarantees, Subsidies, &c— continued Charges for and incidental to — continued Subsidies— continued Nassella Tussock : expenditure under 1946 Act (a) 6,000 14,000 {a) 5,914 Veterinary Services Council 30,750 31,052 31,072, Flax-production subsidy 2,600 2,387 Serpentine development — North Island .. .. 500 South. Island 500 505 Total — Subdivision No. VIII 123,315 139,702 117,001 Subdivision No. IX. — Payments under Statutes Charges for and incidental to — Expenditure, including compensation for stock condemned under Stock Act, 1908, and amendments (part recoverable) 45,000 45,000 {b)^B,743 Expenditure, including compensation under Meat Act, 1939 22,000 22,000 i9jm Rabbit Nuisance Act, 1928, subsidies to Rabbit Boards under section 70, and advances under section 146 of Public Revenues Act, 1926 (c) 135,000 73,000 91,713 Total — Subdivision No. IX 202,000 140,000 130,545