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CLASS XVII.—DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE— continued.

Appropriations for Consolidated Fund Services.

lem. 19i '3-4. MISCELLANEOUS SERVICES. VOTE No. 70 Advertising, printing, <fcc. Analytical and biological laboratories Bicycles and repairs Collection .of agricultural and pastoral statistics Compensation for loss through anthrax Dairy Industry — Contribution towards cool-storage for dairy produce Grading of dairy produce Establishment of dairy schools Inspection of dairies Purchase of dairy requisites Subsidy to National Dairy Association ... Destruction of Rabbits on Crown Lands: Contracts, Labour. Natural Enemies. &c.— Auckland District .. £4,000 Napier „ ... 200 Wellington-West Coast ., ... 500 Marlborough-Nelson-Westland „ ... 100 Cftnterbury-Kaikoura ,. ... 500 Otago ., ... 3,000 Experimental and Stud and Fruit Farms : Workingexpenses, Buildings, and Purchase of Stock — Ruakura .. ... £4,500 Wairangi ... ... 3,500 Momohaki ... ... 2.500 Levin (Weraroa) ... ... 4,000 Sundry small stations .. .. 250 Kxpenses stud horses and cattle Expenses in connection with buildings and fences, &c, on stock and dip reserves, and generally improving £ 1 2 3 4 5 300 -too 200 4.000 250 6 7 8 9 10 II 7,500 8,500 1,000 1,500 100 200 1 L2 L3 I 1 L5 Iβ 17 I y s.300 J is U) 20 21 22 23 21 I <T 14,750 2.250 500 2C 2(5 ■17 28 •2'.) 80 8] 32 38 34 35 36 same Expenses in connection with Veterinary Laboratory, Wallaces ille Freights and carriage Fumigation of fruit and other expenses Grading of hemp 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, Ac — Ruakura ... .. £500 Momohaki ... ... 750 Burnham ... . 500 Milton ... . 550 Expenses in connection with depots for plucking, grading, packing, and freezing poultry for export ... . 2,500 Prosecutions for breaches of Slock, Rabbit, and other Acts, and sundry legal expenses Purchase of books, newspapers, periodicals, and other publications Purchase of patent foi , meat-stamp ink Purchase and expenses of Angora goats Purchase of seeds for Orange River Colony, to be recovered Purchase of stud horses and cattle Quarantine-stations for Stock —Auckland. Wellington, and Lyttelton Refund of railway fares, best-kept-farm competition, and to delegates attending conference Removal expenses 1,000 100 50 1,700 1,750 300 130 1 y 4,«oo 37 350 38 150 150 200 89 10 II 12 18 100 1,000 41 1,200 16 50 600