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Appropriations for Consolidated Fund Services.

item. MISCELLANEOUS SERVICES. 190 19 4-5. VOTE No. 78. 1 Additional payment to John Stephenson, late armscleaner, Auckland, equal to three months' salary at £130, on retiring from the service 2 Annual grant for rifle prizes for shooting, Ac. (open to the public) 3 Compassionate allowance to the children of late Torpedoman Heighten, at the rate of £1 per week 4 Compassionate allowance to ex-Torpedoman Cornwall for injuries received at the Shelly Bay explosion, at 15s. per week 5 Compassionate allowance to the widow of the late Sergeant (). Olive, killed at Mahanga Bay explosion, at the rate of £1 per week ... 6 Compassionate allowance t o the widow and three children of the late Corporal H. Blick, killed at the Mahanga Bay explosion, at the rate of £1 10s. per week 7 Compassionate allowance (7s. 6d. per week) to child of late Sapper W. A. Teague, killed at Mahanga Bay explosion 8 Compassionate allowance of 2s. 2d. per diem to James Hamblyn, injured in Maori War 9 Compassionate allowance, at £2 per week, to C. C. Rookes for services rendered during Maori War 10 Compassionate allowance of £1 per week to Mrs. Clara Batty (and children), widow of the late Thomas Batty, killed while marking at rifle range, Blenheim 11 Compassionate allowance to R Crawford (father e>f Percy Crawford, killed at the Volunteer Encampment, Feilding) ... ... ... 1.2 Compensation to Officers and Non-commissioned Officers on retirement from service 13 Compensation to James Howard for injuries received through the bursting of a cannon at Westport ... 14 | Compensation to Magnus Bystrom on account of injuries sustained during the Maori War 15 Construction of bridge to rifle butts, Ashburton 16 Cost of compiling and writing the history of the several New Zealand Contingents in connection with the South African War 17 Expenses of sending Rifle Team to Bisley 18 ! Explosives Act Amendment Act, 1897, Expenses in connection with 19 I Grant to recipients of N.Z. Cross 20 Grant to W. A. Richardson on account of military services rendered to the colony 21 i Grant to Drill-shed, Invercargill 22 Medical fees, under clauses 4 and 5 of " Military Pensions Act, 1866," for members of Pension Boards for exami- j nation of members of Contingents for pensions ... 23 Naval training-ship ... ... ... 24 Passages and Expenses of Military Officers sent to England for instruction ... ... 25 Passages from England of Officers and Non-commis-sioned Officers 26 Payment of Public Trust Office charges in connection with estates of deceased members of Contingents ... 27 Payment of pensions, allowances, and gratuities to those persons whose claims did not prior to " The Military Pensions Act Amendment Act, 1903," being passed come within the law as it then stood ... ... 28 Pension to Mrs. Elizabeth Ford 29 Pension of late F. G. Rawson, continued to his widow 30 ! Pension to Aperahama Tahumirangi for wounds received while in the service of the New Zealand Government ... ... ... £ 33 450 52 89 52 78 20 40 104 52 100 2,000 150 50 100 300 1,650 500 130 52 300 150 1,000 120 250 100 94 46 45 10