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

PUBLIC ACCOUNTS, 1898-99

£ s. £ s. d £ s. d. 8,150 16 6 Brought forward ILASS XV.—MINISTER OF LANDS— continued. Vote No. 71—Miscellaneous Seevices— continued. Item 20—Improvement of Orari Park Domain (contribution).. Item 21—Interest on £2,000, part purehase-money of Stewart Island Item 22—Khandallan Domain Reserve— Subsidy towards purchase .. .. Item 23—Lyell Cemetery, clearing Item 24—Linwood Recreation-ground Item 25—Mount Cook Hermitage expenses Item 26—-Mount Cook Hermitage equipment Item 27—Magnetic observatory and expenses Item 28—Native townships : Expenses of administration (roading and other works to be repaid) Item 29—Old Soldiers Commission expenses (additional) — Advertising .. • Allowances and expenses of Commissioner Carriage-hire .. .. Hire of room .'. Passage of Commissioner and secretary Reporter, fees and expenses Sundries '.'. .. .. 14 0 0 160 0 0 300 0 0 23 2 0 157 4 6 21 11 10 10 3 3 276 19 8 3 5 0 8 5 0 23 17 0 83 2 3 0 12 0 360 5 9 Item 30—Purchase of recreation-reserve for Pukekohe Item 31—Purchase of recreation-ground, Wilsher Bay, Otago Item 32—Purchase of recreation-ground, Eltham Item 33—Purchase of land, Makuri Gorge Item 34—Purchase of roaa and land at Opotiki Item 35 —Purchase of specimen Notornis mantelli (also £150 charged to " Unauthorised ") Item 36 —Payment for improvements effected on Seotion 10, Block III., Makotuku, since withdrawn from sale on account of timber (estate of late W. Parker) Item 37—Payment to A. Anthony of value of improvements, Section 22, Block VI., Makotuku Item 38 —Payment to T. Laurence of value of improvements, Section 3, Block VIII., Puketoi Item 39—Payment to J. T. Oatley, late Receiver of Land Revenue, Nelson, of three months' salary on retirement Item 40—Payment to Rose Fynes-Olinton of gratuity on account of services of late J. Fynes-Clinton.. Item 41—Payment to Waitara West Road Board of proceeds of sale, part Section 96, Block VII., Paritutu Survey District Item 42—Payment for writing book describing country round Wanganui River Item 43—Payment to Herbert Liddell in lieu of remission certificate Item 44—Refunds on account of lands disposed of, short acreage Item 45—Refund to J. Aiken of expenses in defending action for trespass, as recommended by Waste Lands Committee .. Item 46—Refund of rent, Ashburton Bridge Reserve Item 47—Refund of portion of survey-fee to W. F. Boese Item 48—Refunds for improvements effected Item 49— Refund for improvements effected, Section 22, Block VIII., Makotuku (H. MoLean) .. Item 50—Refund of royalty on gravel to Tarata Domain Board and Clifton County (equal shares) Item 51—Refund of royalty on timber oharged under new regulations Item 52—Refund to A. Bulman of amount deposited on application for Sections 40, 41, Block VIII., Campbelltown Hundred Item 53—Refund of amount deposited by Catherine Munro on application for Section 2, Blook III., Mangakahia Survey District Item 54—Reimbursing Public Account with amount embezzled —Rent, Section 362, Waioeka (W. Harvey) Item 55—Remission of one year's rent to T. H. Macdougall and C. T. White for damage to runs by fire Item 56—Remission of two years' rent to P. Scally on account of flood-damage Item 57—Remission of rent to settlers, Raureka Settlement, on account of flood-damage Item 58—Remission of rent, &c, omitted to be collected by Commissioner of Crown Lands, Auckland, Section 3, Blook XVI., Waitoa Item 59—Remission of rent to W. Matheson, Section 12, Hall Special Settlement, on aocount of damage by fire Item 60—Remission of rent to Mary Eliza Ryder, Lot 12, Reserve 1178, Nukuroa, annual rent £5 4s. ; one year 406 4 2 52' 0 1 100 0 0 13 10 0 44 3 6 83 15 0 32 7 10 24 15 0 40 0 0 30 0 0 139 8 7 50 0 0 66 9 3 28 0 0 25 10 0 3 0 0 2 17 3 10 0 0 173 18 4 8 2 0 53 9 0 14 9 8 5 4 0 Carried forward 10,594 4 3