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

PUBLIC ACCOUNTS, 1902-1903.

Brought forward £ s. d. £ s. d. 4,085 2 0 £ s. d. CLASS XII.—MINISTER FOR AGRICULTURE— continued. Vote No. 67—Agriculture, Miscellaneous— continued. Item 4—Compassionate allowance to widow of late E. A. Field, Stock Inspector Item 5—Compensation for loss of cattle by anthrax Item 6—Cost of printing proceedings, Agricultural Conference, Dunedin Ifem 7—Contribution towards cool-Btorage for dairy-produee .. Item 8 —Grading dairy-produce Item 9—Establishment of dairy schools Item 10—Purchase of dairy requisites Item 11—Encouragement of dairy industry (subsidy) Item 12—Bonus for preserved milk Item 13—Inspeotion of dairies Destruction of rabbits— Item 14—Auckland Item 15—Napier Item 16—Wellington and West Coast Item 17—Marlborough-Nelson Item 18—Canterbury-Kaikoura Item 19—Otago 250 0 0 137 15 1 50 0 0 6,125 11 2 3,260 12 0 18 12 3 200 0 0 362 6 0 760 10 1 4,352 16 5 5 16 7 836 18 11 59 6 4 808 2 7 2,819 5 10 Less recoveries 8,882 6 8 1,491 0 0 7,391 6 8 Experimental stations, — Item 20—Ruakura Item 21—Ruakura, interest on purchase Item 22—Wairangi Item 23—Momahaki Item 24—Levin (Wereroa) Item 25—Sundry small stations 5,273 14 11 19 2 4 3,940 6 1 2,462 4 8 4,908 0 0 356 13 11 Less recoveries 16,9£0 1 11 6,034 0 0 Item 26—Expenses on stock and dip reserve Item 27—Expenses in connection with buildings Item 28—Fumigation of fruit, &o .. Item 29—Grading of hemp .. .. Item 30—Freight and carriage Item 31 —Further compassionate allowance to widow of J. A. Henderson, Poultry Expert Item 32—Importation of Angora goats Item 33 —Inspection of noxious weeds Item 34—Inspeotion of vineyards, &c Item 35 —Inspeotion of imported bones and manures 10,926 1 11 1,242 8 3 431 18 6 4 16 9 420 10 2 26 4 0 50 0 0 160 10 2 742 4 9 462 4 6 147 1 11 Poultry industry— Working expenses, buildings, &o. Item 41—Prosecutions for breaches of Stock and other Acts .. Item 42—Purchase of dairy-produce for South Africa on behalf of War Office Item 43—Purchase of books and publications Item 44—Purchase of patent for meat-stamp ink Item 45—Purohase, &c, of Sections 156 and 157, Parish of Whangamarino, containing 513 aores Item 46—Removal expenses Item 47—Refund to local bodies of fees for slaughtering Item 48—Refund of railway fares, best-kept-farm competition, and to delegates attending conference Item 49—Rents, fuel, lighting, &o. Item 50 —Seeds, plants, &c, for distribution Item 51—Subscriptions to telephones Item 52 —Subsidies to local bodies for destruction of kea Item 53—Testing stock 4,501 13 10 181 16 3 358 2 7 127 9 9 686' 9 2 5 9 4 801 5 2 6 4 6 186 4 8 20 3 6 177 2 9 Travelling-expenses,— Item 54—Head offioe .. „ —Auckland » —Napier „ —Wellington-West Coast ,, —Marlborough-Nelson .. —Canterbury-Kaikoura .. „ —Otago 6,197 9 9 1,237 16 4 652 3 11 1,488 17 7 415 0 7 784 0 2 1,903 9 5 Less recoveries .. 12,678 17 9 100 0 0 Item 55 —Travelling-expenses of Produce Commissioner Item 56 —Analytical and biological laboratories Item 57 —Allowance to Dunedin Horticultural Society for expenses in connection with Fruitgrowers' Conference Item 58 —Quarantine stations 12,578 17 9 266 3 6 323 2 9 50 0 0 988 1 6 Carried forward 58,514 3 2