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CLASS X.—RATES ON NATIVE LANDS.

CLASS XI.—CONTINGENT DEFENCE.

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Appropriations for Public TVorhs Services.

1900-1. Vote No. 115. — Rates on Native Lands 1,300 Item. COLONIAL TREASURER. £ £ VOTE No. 115. Rates on Native Lands — Recoverable from Owners 1,300 1,300 ToTAfy—Vote No. 115 ... TOTAL CLASS X. 1,300

1900-1. I £ Vote No 116.—Contingent Defence 178,500 '8,500 [tem. MINISTER OF DEFENCE. £ £ 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 L6 17 18 19 20 21 22 VOTE No. 116. Contingent Defence — Arms Arms, &c, for cadets Arms for Reserve (6,000 rifles) Arms (spare parts) Accoutrements, haversacks, water-bottles, &c. Barbette mounting 6 in. B.L. Breech mechanisms ordnance Building for stores in four centres Camp equipment for 6,000 men Camp equipage (tents) Drill-sheds Extra ammunition for guns Field batteries Four 12-pr. Q.F. guns and mountings Maxim guns Material for testing ammunition Medical stores and military books Miscellaneous submarine mining stores Miscellaneous ordnance stores ' Ordnance ammunition Overcoats Replacing buff accoutrements by brown (the buff accoutrements to be kept as reserve for rifle clubs) Rifle-ranges Rifle-range, Wellington—Purchase of additional land, Polhill Gully Rifle-range, Dunedin —Purchase of land, Pelichet Bay Saddlery Searchlight plant, Wellington and Lyttelton Shipping charges, freight, and insurance Spare parts for ordnance Telephone connections between batteries Waterproof sheets 30,000 4,000 25,500 2,000 7.000 1,200 2,000 2,000 3,000 4,000 3,000 11,000 20,000 600 5.000 500 1,000 14,000 15,000 5,000 5,000 23 24 750 3,000 700 25 2,000 5,000 1,500 1.000 2,000 1,000 750 26 27 28 29 30 31 Total—Vote No. 116 178,500 TOTAL OF CLASS XI. £178,000