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

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PUBLIC ACCOUNTS, 1901-1902.

Brought forward £ s. d. £ s. d. 11,344 5 3 £ s. d. CLASS XII.—MINISTER FOE AGRICULTURE—continued. Vote No. 65—Miscellaneous Services— continued. Item 10—Expenses in connection with imported and other stud stock Item 11—Dairy requisites, experiments Item 12—Dairy inspection .. •■ •- Item 13—Encouragement of dairy industry : Subsidy Item 14—Encouragement of preserved-milk industry : Bonus for production Item 15—Establishment of dairy schools Item 16—Experimental station, Levin (Wereroa), buildings and working-expenses and purchase of stock Item 17 —Experimental station, Momohaki, ditto Item 18—Purchase of land, Kirikiriroa Item 19—Purchase of stock, buildings, and working-expenses, for Kirikiriroa .. .. • • • • Item 20—Wairangi: Buildings, working-expenses, and purchase of stock .. .. • • •• • • Item 21—Experimental fruit and seed stations : Expenses .. Item 22—Expenses of frozen meat exhibited at Earl's Court .. Item 23 —Expenses of three quarantine-stations Item 24 Expenses in connection with testing of stook Item 25—Expenses grading hemp Item 26—Grading dairy produce, inoluding wages .. Item 27—Inspection of vineyards, and treatment and eradication of phylloxera .. • • Item 28—Inspection of imported bones and manure.. Item 29—Legal expenses : Prosecutions for breaohes of Stock, Babbit, and other Acts .. .. ■■ _ •• •• Item 30 Expenses in connection with the erection ot poultryexpert depots at Auckland, Momohaki, Burnham, and Item 31—Purchase of part of Lot 52, Parish of Te Eapa, County of Waipa (Franklin) .. .. _ • • • • Item 32—Purchase of dairy produce for South Africa on behalf of War Office .. .. ... ■• •■ Item 33—Refund of part quarantine charges on 129 rams .. Item 34—Refund of railway fares to judges and to delegates attending conference .. .- •• •• •■ Item 35—Repairs to fences and buildings on stook and dip reserves Item 36—Seed and plants for distribution Item 37—Seeds for Department of Agriculture, Cape Town .. Item 38—Subsidies to local bodies for destruction of the kea.. 5,658 8 1 58 8 9 996 19 7 202 18 5 230 14 4 110 16 8 3,867 15 6 2,689 3 0 5,519 11 0 3,513 3 8 1,866 3 8 548 13 11 100 0 0 1,642 5 3 153 8 7 171 17 7 2,762 6 1 578 7 5 116 19 1 84 13 9 3,454 17 5 203 3 0 598 15 7 40 0 0 109 11 7 460 10 1 129 12 3 7 2 9 7 17 6 Less, — Fumigation of fruit .. • - Sale of fruit 47,228 9 9 177 5 9 4 8 0 181 13 9 £47,046 16 0 CLASS XV.—DEFENCE DEPARTMENT :— Vote No. 74—Miscellaneous Services :— Item 1—Compassionate allowances to relatives of deceased members of New Zealand Contingents Item 2—Gratuities to officers and others for extra services connected with despatch of the contingents to S:>ufch Africa Item 3—Amount lost by default of late Magazme-keeper, Mount Eden .. . ■ • • • • , Item 4—Annual grant for rifle prizes for shooting Item 5—Boring cylinders for H.P. mountings, B.L. guns Item 6—Capitalisation of annual grant awarded to Sapper Head, Torpedo Corps, for injuries sustained at Shelly Bay .. Item 7—Compassionate allowance to children of late Torpedoman Heighton, 20th February, 1901, to 4th February, 1902 Item 8—Compassionate allowance to ex-Torpedoman Cornwall, 4th March, 1901, to 26th January, 1902 Item 9—Compassionate allowance to the widow of the late Sergeant O. Olive, 1st April, 1901, to 16th March, 1902 Item 10—Compassionate allowance to the widow and three children of the late Corporal H. Blick, 1st April, 1901, to 9th February, 1902 .. •• ■• •• Item 11—Compassionate allowance to child of the late bapper W A. Teague, 1st April, 1901, to 29th March, 1902 Item 12—Compassionate allowance to James Hamblyn, injured in Maori war, 1st March, 1901, to 28th February, 1902, in addition to pension under '' The Military Pensions Act, 1866 " Item 13—Compensation to Chapman, H. (Auckland), on retirement from the service 104 0 0 687 0 0 400 0 0 50 0 0 85 5 0 50 0 0 78 15 0 18 7 6 39 10 10 132 6 3 Carried forward 1,595 4 7