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STATEMENT in Detail of the EXPENDITURE for MISCELLANEOUS SERVICES—contd.

PUBLIC ACCOUNTS, 1894-95

GLASS VI.—COMMISSIONER OF CUSTOMS :— Vote No. 38 —Customs, Miscellaneous Sebvices :— Item 1—Quarantine-keepers, Auckland, Wellington, Lyttelton, and Port Chalmers —Salaries Item 2—Quarantine Stations—Contingencies Item 3—Bonus on exportation of canned and cured fish Item 4—Duty on sundry articles remitted by order of the Commissioner of Customs Item 5—Refund of Customs duty on tobacco destroyed Item 6—Refund of Customs duty on various articles Item 7 —Refund of bonded warehouse duty on bonds closed during the year .. .. • • • • Item 8 —Compensation to S. J. Jackman for special services rendered to department.. £ s. d. £ s. d. £ s. d. 459 0 0 112 11 10 271 11 10 69 17 6 673 17 9 527 9 9 47 8 2 100 0 0 Total net expenditure, Vote No. 38 £2,261 16 10 Vote No. 40 —Marine, Miscellaneous Services :— Item 1—" Hinemoa," s.s., working-expenses,— Wages Coals Provisions, &c.. Repairs, stores, &c. 3,434 6 9 1,221 11 5 1,470 14 10 1,319 13 7 Less recoveries for rations, passage-money, &c. 7,446 6 7 182 18 5 7,263 8 2 Item 2—" Hinemoa," s.s., new propeller-blades and enlarging forecastle Item 3 —Expenses of s.s. " Stella" whilst laid up Item 4—Guaranteed interest to Wellington Patent Slip Company to 31st March, 1894 Item 5 —Grant to Waitaki County Council for making roads to Port Moeraki (balance of Moeraki Harbour Board funds) .. Item 6—Buoys and Beacons, Gisborne (to be recovered from the Harbour Board) Item 7 —Contingencies 534 13 6 143 15 0 1,994 19 9 116 5 10 Total net expenditure, Vote No. 40 £10,053 2 3 CLASS VIII— MINISTER OF EDUCATION :— Vote No. 49 —Miscellaneous Seevices: — Item 1 —Grants to various schools and associations for technical instruction classes Item 2—Grant in aid of Thames High School Item 3 —Grant to Ohristchurch Public Library of amount which was lying in Bank at Ohristchurch at credit of the Provincial Council Library Fund Account 722 3 6 200 0 0 155 16 0 Total net expenditure, Vote No. 49 £1,077 19 6 CLASS IX.—MINISTER OF MINES;--Vote No. 56—Miscellaneous Sebvices:—Maintenance and Management of Water-races, — Item 1 —Waimea Kumara Item 2—Mount Ida Water-race .. 3,411 0 2 1,142 16 0 4,553 16 2 Item 8 —Thames, Otago, and Reefton Schools of Mines— Travelling-expenses .. Subsidies to Schools of Mines, — Kuaotunu Kumara Nelson Otago Reefton Thames 75 1 9 53 10 0 15 0 0 500 0 0 21 19 1 270 0 0 63 17 8 935 10 10 Item 4—Expenses of Board of Examiners for mine-managers' certificates .. .. .. . • Item 5—Compensation and expenses in connection with the resumption of land for water-races, and proclamation of rivers as watercourses for receiving tailings Item 6—Prospecting and other works at Brunner Coal-mine .. Item 7—Law costs, Jutland Flat Gold-dredging Company, as recommended by Goldfields and Mines Committee Item 8 —Fees and expenses of mining expert from Victoria for report on deep quartz-mining Item 9 —Aged Miners' Home, Westland Item 10—Contingencies,' and Mining Inspectors' travelling999 8 6 161 14 7 1,434 7 1 1,000 0 0 298 2 1 130 0 0 expenses, — Advertising, books, and stationery Cartage and freight Inspecting and reporting on mines 164 0 2 11 6 7 22 4 0 rt niii nrl Invnfn vri 197 10 9 8,577 8 5 Carried forward