8.—7.

Appropriations for Consolidated Fund Services.

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tem. 19 2-3. MISCELLANEOUS SERVICES— continued. £ 14 15 16 17 18 19 VOTE No. 67—continued. Destruction of Rabbits on Crown Lands: Contracts, Labour, Natural Enemies, &c.— Auckland District ... £2,500 Napier „ ... 200 Wellington-West Coast „ ... 500 Marlborough-Nelson ,, ... 100 Canterbury-Kaikoura „ ... 500 Otago ,, ... 3,500 Experimental and Stud Farms: Working-expenses, Buildings, and Purchase of Stock — Ruakura .. ... £3,000 Ruakura — Interest on purchase-money, model farm ... ... 20 Wairangi ... ... 2,000 Momohaki .... ... 2,250 Levin (Weraroa) ... ... 3,500 Sundry small stations ... ... 500 Expenses stud horses and cattle Expenses in connection with buildings and fences, &c, on stock and dip reserves, and generally improving 1 I i y 7,300 I I J 1 20 21 i I 22 23 24 25 20 27 y 11,270 I I J 2,000 28 29 30 31 same Fumigation of fruit and other expenses Grading of hemp Freights and carriage Further compassionate allowance to widow of J. A. Henderson, Poultry Expert ... Importation of Angora goats . Inspection of noxious weeds Inspection of vineyards and eradication of phylloxera... Inspection of imported bones and manures Poultry Industry'— Working-expenses, Buildings, and Purchase of Birds, Food, &c — Ruakura (new station) ... .. £1,000 Momohaki ... ... 500 Burnham ... ... 300 Milton ... ... 300 Expenses in connection with depots for plucking, grading, packing, and freezing poultry for export ... ... 2,000 . Prosecutions for breaches of Stock, Rabbit, and other Acts Purchase of dairy produce for South Africa on behalf of War Office Purchase of books, newspapers, periodicals, and other publications Purchase of patent for meat-stamp ink Purchase, &c, of Sections 156 and 157, containing 513 acres, Parish of Whaugamarino Removal expenses Refund to local bodies of fees received for slaughtering licenses paid into Public Account Refund of railway fares, best-kept-farm competition, and to delegates attending conference Rents, fuel, lighting, cleaning offices, furniture, insurance, &c. Seeds, plants, &c, for distribution Subscriptions to telephones Subsidies to local bodies for destruction of the kea Testing of stock Travelling-expenses 600 50 500 100 32 33 34 35 50 200 1,000 500 130 36 37 38 39 40 j- 4,100 I i J 41 100 42 1,000 43 100 150 44 45 46 47 275 500 590 48 150 49 600 150 200 15 150 10,000 50 51 52 53 54