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CLASS XXXI.—CONTINGENT DEFENCE.

80

Appropriations for Public Works Services.

1902-3. Vote No. 108.—Contingent Defence 9, £ ,000 item. MINISTER OF DEFENCE. L 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 i) 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 VOTE No. 108. Contingent Defence — Arms Arms (spare parts) Accoutrements, water-bottles, &c. Building for stores in four centres Camp equipment Drillsheds Ammunition for Q.I , , guns Field batteries 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 Rifle ranges Rifle range, Wellington—Purchase of additional land, Polhill Gully Rifle range, Dunedin —Purchase of land, Pelichet Bay Saddlery ... ... Searchlight plant Shipping charges, freight, and insurance Spare parts for ordnance Submarine-mining vessels (including cost of bringing to colony) Telephone connections between batteries Waterproof sheets Contingencies 15,000 1,000 17.850 1,000 8,000 7,000 6,000 10,000 8,000 2,500 100 500 8,000 7,000 11,000 2,000 5,000 19 550 20 21 22 28 24 2,500 1,020 2,000 3,000 1,000 25 26 27 2,000 500 1.500 500 Total required for current year—Vote No. 108 124,520 95,000 TOTAL CLASS XXXI. £95,000