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PUBLIC ACCOUNTS, 1906-1907.

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

£ 8. d. £ s. d.i £ s. d. CLASS XVIII.—MINISTER OF MARINE :— Vote No. 64—Miscellaneous Services:— Item 1—Aquarium at New Zealand International Exhibition— Cleaning aquarium Constructing and fitting aquarium Exhibits and cost of preparing same Food for fish .. Freight and cartage Furniture and linoleum Installation of eleotric light Salaries : Curator and assistant Sinking well Stationery and sundries Travelling-expenses 8 0 0 1,139 13 0 54 6 6 1 It .! 92 2 6 , 33 10 0 40 19 0 S3 10 0 150 9 4 11 11 9 124 5 1 1 1,710 1 5 67 1 7 254 13 8 Item 2—Barometers for weather-reporting Item 3 —Beacons, entrance to Kaipara Harbour Item 4—Beacon, Kaipara Harbour.. Item 5—Beacons, West WangaThui Inlet Item 6—Beacons, Little Wanganui Item 7—Beacons and buoys, Half-moon Bay Item 8—Chatham Island wharf extension Item 9—Charts and books Item 10—Cheoking overcrowding of steamers and legal expenses Item 11—Clearing willows from Taheke River, Hokianga Item 12—Contribution to Publio Health Department Item 13—Copying weather plans for Meteorologioal Office, London Item 14—Dolphins at Karamea Wharf Item 15—Expenses connected with inquiries into wreoks, relief of distressed seamen, and survey of unseaworthy ships Item 16—Expenses, Wool Fires Commission— Advertising Cables and telegrams .. .. .. .. Commissioner's fee Freight and cartage Labour Rent of telephone Reporting Stationery and thermometers Wool, skins, and tow for experiments .. .. Travelling expenses and allowances of Commissioners, staff, and witnesses i • 6 11 13 4 11 41 2 0 11 17 8 2 10 0 5 0 0 366 0 0 8 11 2 125 10 1 261 4 0 • 44 0 0 58 13 5 366 3 2 50 0 0 123 3 6 i, 11U 67 254 44 58 366 50' 123 263 x o 1 7 13 8 0 0 13 5 3 2 0 0 3 6 7 4 263 7 4 844 6 11 844 6 11 Item 17 —Enlarging wharf-shed, Little Wanganui .. Item 18 —Fog-signals Item 19—Grant to Shipwreck Relief Society Item 20- House for signalman, Kaipara Item 21—Improving and protecting entrance Waikouaiti River Item 22—Jetty and shed, north bank, Okuru Item 23—Maintenance, Jackson's Head beacon-light Item 24—Maintenance of Waitapu leading-lights Item 25 —Marine survey Item 26—Moiety of cost of survey of coast by H.M.S. "Penguin " Item 27—Motueka Wharf.. Item 28—Mooring-buoy, Milford Sound Item 29—" New Zealand Nautical Almanac " Item 30-Nile Bridge Item 31—Oil-launch for Hokianga.. Item 32—Postage and telegrams for three months ending 31st March, 1907 .. Item 33— Printing Engineers' Log-books Item 34—Refund of examination fee to 0. M. Inverarity Item 35 —Rent and expenses connected with examinations of masters and mates, &c. .. Item 36—Renewal of telephone-line to Kaipara Lighthouse .. Item 37 —Removing snags from Waiuku River Item 38—Removal of bank, Waitapu Harbour (subsidy £1 for £i) Item 39—Searching for dismasted vessel "Lutterworth " — Hire of s.s. " Duco " .. Item 40 —Snagging the Mokau River Item 41—Subsidy to Shipwreck Relief Sooiety (£1 for £1 on amount collected by society) Item 42—Survey of Wbangarei foreshore Item 43—Tower for harbour light, Hokianga Item 44—Tuahine Point Lighthouse Item 45—Wharf, Manukau Harbour Item 46—Wharf at Little Shag Creek, Tokatoka (amount received, £100) '.'. 8 Cr. 198' 5 8 200 0 0 27 0 0 58 15 3 75 0 0 325 13 3 8,008 18 0 2'l8 5 187 2 11 190 0 0 437 12 4 115 4 0 10 0 198' 200 27' 58 : 75 325 : ),008 : 2'] 187 190 437 1 115 1 51 121 1 34 80 200 101 .100 5 8 0 0 0 0 15 3 0 0 13 3 18 0 18 5 2 11 0 0 12 4 4 0 0 0 0 1 11 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 11 5 0 0 51 0 1 121 11 4 34 0 0 80 0 0 200 0 0 10 11 5 Cr. 100 0 0 Carried forward 14, ,006 14,006 3 8