8.~ 7

79

CLASS XVII.—DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE— continued.

Appropriations for Consolidated Fund Services.

Item. 19 '4-5. MISCELLANEOUS SERVICES— continued. 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 51 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 | i I i i t ! I ► i i VOTE No. 70— continued. Poultry Industry- — Working-expenses, Buildings, and Purchase of Birds, Food, Ac — Ruakura ... .. £500 Momohaki ... ... 750 Burnham ... ... 650 Milton ... ... 590 )- 4,490 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, and sundry legal expenses .. ... 350 Purchase of books, newspapers, periodicals, and other publications ... ... .. 250 Purchase and expenses of Angora goats ... ... 200 Purchase of stud horses and cattle ... 2,350 Purchase of laud, Mataura Hundred, Edendale Settlement, for poison depot ... ... ... 200 Purchase of offices, Hokitika ... ... 250, Quarantine-stations for Stock —Auckland, Wellington, and Lyttelton ... ... ... 1,400 Refund to R. Corbett, penalty on sheep rate ... 2 Removal expenses ... ..- ... 600 Rents, fuel, lighting, cleaning offices, furniture, insurance, Ac. ... ... ... 1,100 Seeds, plants, Ac, for distribution ... ... 50 Subsidies to local bodies for destruction of the kea ... 20 Subscriptions to telephones ... ... ... 225 Sterilising bones: Working-expenses ... ... 1,000 Testing of stock ... ... ... 200 Travelling-expenses ... ... ... 14,500 Travelling-expenses of William Johns obtaining information for report on culture and canning of fruit in California .. ... ... 50 Contingencies ... ... ... 1,500 51 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 87,317 Less estimated credits under section 41 of " The Public Revenues Act, 1891" ... ... 16,000 Total—Vote No. 70 .. ... 71,317 TOTAL OF CLASS XVII .... £123,5 )87