8.—7.

Appropriations for Consolidated, Fund Services.

CLASS VI.—CUSTOMS AND MARINE DEPARTMENTS—continued.

48

Item. MARINE AND HARBOURS— continued. 19 2-3. VOTE No. 45— continued. Salaries — continued. Harbours—continued. Napier Bluff Lighthouse — Lightkeeper Wairau — Signalman Waitapu — Harbourmaster Collingwood— Harbourmaster and Lightkeeper Karamea — Signalman Okarito — Harbourmaster £ £ 11 20 12 145 13 25 14 35 15 40 16 50 2,216 85 Less contributions from Customs Vote 17 18 19 20 21 22 Other Charges — Buoys and beacons, and gas for lights Buoys and beacons, Aotea Harbour Buoy-chain, stores, and oil Iron buoys ... ... Wages and rent Contingencies 2,131 200 30 500 150 250 350 23 Lighthouses— Salaries — 29 Principal Keepers: 2 at £180, 15 at £160, 7 at £150, 4 at £140, 1 at £130 42 Assistant Keepers: 1 at £130, 16 at £120, 7 at £110, 5 at £100, 12 at £90, and 1 at £50 Artificer 1,480 4,500 4.450 210 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 Other Charges — Carriage of mails Enlarging Marine Store Keeper's station and travelling-allowances... Oil and stores Repairs to lighthouse's, dwellings, &c. Wages of temporary keepers ... Contingencies 9,160 170 300 375 3,900 150 250 350 5,495 Weather-reporting Officer— Wellington 14,655 31 350 Superintendents of Mercantile Marine and Examiners of Masters and Mates— 1 each at Auckland, Wellington, Lyttelton, and Dunedin, at £265 a year 1,060 32 33 Protection of Fish and Oysters— Salaries — Chief Inspector of Fisheries 6 Inspectors: 1 at £117, 1 at £30, 1 at £25, 1 at £20, 1 at £12, and 1 at £10 Wages of attendants, Hakataramea Hatchery 300 214 274 788