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PUBLIC ACCOUNTS, 1906-1907.

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

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Brought forward £ s. d. £ s. d. £ s. d. 10,935 14 10 CLASS XIII.—MINES DEPARTMENT— continued. Vote No. 43. —Miscellaneous Services — continued. Item 17 —Office-rents Item 18 —Otago University School of Mines (final grant) Item 19—Postage and telegrams for three months ending 31st Maroh, 1907 Item 20—Printing and publishing report on the geology of the Cape Colville Peninsula Item 21—Purchase of Native rights (Stewart and others, Thames) Item 22—Refunds of rent, seotion 154, " Mining Act, 1905 " .. Item 23—Refund of rent paid for Morning Star Claim at Preservation Inlet.. .. .. ., Item 24— Reports on acoidents .. .. ... Item 25—Schools of Mines— Apparatus Cartage Grants, Otago University * .. Salaries .. .. Scholarships .. .. Subsidies— Coromandel School of Mines Karangahake School of Mines Reefton School of Mines Thames School of Mines Waihi 8chool of Mines Westport School of Mines 73 0 0 250 0 0 181 5 4 3,000 0 0 86 9 7 48 0 0 53 15 8 0 7 6 500 0 0 245 11 0 100 0 0 227 10 0 576 2 0 98 10 0 150 0 0 589 6 6 152 18 0 Setting examination papers Supervising examinations Travelling-expenses 1,794 6 6 44 2 0 29 17 0 69 0 11 Item 26 —Testing shale, London Item 27 —Travelling allowances and expenses Item 28 —Contingencies, Wages, &c.— Books, diaries, directories Cleaning offices Coal .. Compilation Mines Handbook Compiling consolidated regulations under "The Mining Aot, 1905" Contribution to Mining Handbook Contribution of half expenses sending ore to Thames School of Mines for testing Despatch-bags, trunks, &c. Extra clerical assistance Freight and cartage Freight on shale, Bluff to Glasgow Lodging-allowance of cadets Office furniture and requisites Painting new offioe, Dunedin Postage, telegrams, &c. Photographs Preparing handbook for New Zealand Exhibition Prospecting for coal Stationery Subsidy, protection Naseby Township Sundries Telephone subscriptions and extensions Travelling-expenses Typewriters, requisites, Ac. Typing reports for Mining Handbook Wages charwoman, &o. 2,837 0 7 300 0 0 2,191 15 10 2 19 3 9 6 7 3 16 3 35 16 9 2 2 0 5 5 0 28 18 1 19 7 0 17 14 2 12 1 0 144 2 6 70 16 8 50 9 2 13 6 8 12 4 7 18 0 5 8 0 61 7 6 12 2 4 40 0 0 8 16 0 33 17 4 20 15 8 57 5 11 2 16 0 22 14 2 685 11 2 Total net expenditure, Vote No. 43 £20,588 17 4 CLASS XIV.—COLONIAL SECRETARY'S DEPARTMENT:— Vote No. 53—Miscellaneous Services :— Item 1—Annuity to James Mackay, Ex-Warden, 1st February, 1906, to 31st Maroh, 1907 Item 2—Art Galleries (subsidy £1 for £1)— Auckland Canterbury Item 3—Assistance developing production of mineral oil Item 4—Bonus to Taipo Explosives Syndicate Item 5—Captain Cook Memorial at Gisborne (£1 for £1) Item 6—Cleaning offices 87 10 0 5o6" 0 0 1,980 14 3 Carried forward 2,568 4 3