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CLASS X.—RATES ON NATIVE LANDS.

Appropriations for Public Works Services.

£ Vote No 114. —Rates on Native Lands ,500 Item. COLONIAL TREASURER. £ VOTE No. 114. Rates on Native Lands— Recoverable from Owners 1,500 Total—Vote No. 114 ... 1,500 TOTAL CLASS X. 1,500 CLASS XI.—CONTINGENT DE 'ENCE. 1899-1900. i Vote No 115.—Contingent Defence ... £ 40,000 Item. MINISTER OF DEFENCE. £ £ 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 VOTE No. 115. Contingent Defence — Rifles Tents Maxim guns Field battery Four 12-pr. Q.F. guns and mountings Spare parts for ordnance Barbette mounting 6 in. B.L. Breech mechanisms ordnance ... ,... Material for testing ammunition Accoutrements, haversacks, and water-bottles Telephone connections between batteries Military clothing and badges Medical stores and military books Shipping charges, freight, and insurance Miscellaneous submarine mining stores Miscellaneous ordnance stores Drill-sheds Rifle-ranges, Auckland District Wellington —Purchase of additional land, Polhill G-ully Rifle-range Dunedin —Purchase of land, Pelichet Bay, for rifle7,200 1,200 2,500 3,000 2,000 1,700 1,200 1,000 500 1,000 500 1,000 500 1,000 12,700 15,000 2,000 1,000 20 3,200 40,000 ' range 2,000 Total required for current year—Vote No. 115 60,200 TOTAL OF CLASS XL ;4O,ooo