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SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATES, 1948-49

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE—continued

(a) Ådditional provision to meet expenses of destruction, and compensation for total destruetion of stock of a poultry-farmer, owing to an outbreak of " fowl cholera," to prevent spread of this disease. £7,150 provided on main estimates. (b) Ådditional provision required to replace obsolete electrieal equipment at Somes Island Station. £7,900 provided on main estimates. (c) Ådditional provision for payment of bonnses on 100,000 queen wasps; number previously antieipated, 20,000. £2,000 provided on main estimates. (d) To meet final chargés on last year's experimental work. £5O provided on main estimates.

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For Services ehargeable on the Consolidated Fund —continued £ £ £ ORDINARY REVENUE ACCOUNT —ctd. Y OTE —AGrRICULTURE—continued Subdivision No. II.—Live-stock Division Other Chargés f or and incidental to — Diseases of live-stock purchase of material, and expenses coimected with treatraent and control of animal diseases (including approved compensation), (part recoverable), (additional) Quarantine stations : equipment and workingexpenses (part recoverable), (additional) .. («) 1,200 (6) 500 Saving on expenditnre already provided on main estimates consequent upon adjustment of the exchange rate 1,700 Cr. 320 Total —Subdivision No. II 1,380 Subdivision No. III.—Horticulture Division Other Chargés for and incidental to — Destruction of wasps: wages, travellingexpenses, and materials (additional) Red-legged earth-mite : control and destruction (additional) (c) 1,000 (d) 75 Saving on expenditure already provided on main estimates consequent upon adjustment of the exchange rate 1,075 Cr. 160 Total —Subdivision No. III 1 915