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PUBLIC ACCOUNTS, 1907-1908.

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

£ s. d. £ s. d. £ s. d. CLASS XIX.—MINISTER OF MARINE :— Vote No. 67 —Miscellaneous Services: — Item 1—Administration of "The Shipping and Seamen Aot, 1903," and inquiries into shipping casualties .. .. Item 2—Aquarium at New Zealand International Exhibition— Cleaning Food for fish Freight and cartage Fuel and light Furnishing Hire of pot-plants Salaries, Curator and assistant Sundries Travelling-expenses .. .. • ■ • • 58 17 0 16 4 10 21 8 0 42 14 5 40 2 6 27 15 4 10 11 0 79 10 2 5 9 6 48 18 10 292 14 7 92 7 7 Item 3 —Beacon, Kaipara Harbour.. Item 4—Beacons, Inner Passage, Katikati Item 5—Beacons, West Wanganui Inlet Item 6 —Beacons and buoys, Half-moon Bay Item 7—Charter of steamer searching for C. Harvey, blown to sea from wreck of " Marguerite Mirabaud " .. ItemS—Charts and books .. .. •• ••' Item 9—Checking overcrowding of steamers . - Item 10—Clearing willows from Taheke River, Hokianga Item 11—Deepening creek, Okarito .. .. Item 12 —Erection of new wharf, Wairoa South River .. ■ Item 13—Expensea of the Navigation Conference — Grants to delegates .. .. ■ ■ • • Steamer and rail fares 21 0 0 20 11 2 436 1 4 130 0 0 1,500 0 0 5 4 11 1,505 4 11 Item 14—Expenses conneoted with inquiries into wreoks, relief of distressed seamen, and survey of unseaworthy ships Item 15—Expenses, Wool Fires Commission — Bonus Acting Secretary .. . - • • Commissioner's fees .. .. • • ■ ■ Hire of typewriter Reporting evidence .. .. • ■ Sundries .. .. .. • ■ • ■ Travelling-expenses Wool, cfec, supplied for experiments Item 16—Enlarging wharf-shed, Little Wanganui Item 17—Fog-signal cartridges Item 18—Grant to Shipwreck Relief Society Item 19—Grant to the Marlborough Acclimatisation Society Item 20—Grant for repairing and improving the Waipipi Wharf, Manukau Item 21—Grant towards cost of repairing wharf, Half-moon Bay, Stewart Island .. .. Item 22—Horseshoe Bay wharf and protection Item 23—Improving entrance, Kaituna River Item 24—Jetty and shed, north bank, Okuru Item 25—Maintenance, Jackson's Head beacon-light Item 26—Maintenance of Waitapu leading-lights Item 27—Marine survey Item 28—Matakohe Wharf repairs Item 29—MotuekaWharf.. Item 30—Mooring-buoy, Milford Sound Item 31—Napier Western Spit protective works Item 32—" New Zealand Nautical Almanac " Item 33-Nile Briage Item 34- Oil-launch for Inspector of Fisheries, Russell Item 35—Pay of officers acting at Russell as signalman ana Inspector of Fisheries auring absence of signalman and Inspector on trawler Item 36—Port Waikato Wharf repairs Item 37—Postages ana telegrams Item 38—Printing ana binding A.B.C. Azimuth Tables and charts Item 39—Prosecutions under the Shipping and Seamen, Harbours, and Sea-fisheries Aots Item 40—Railway fares of Royal Naval Registrar Item 41—Raupo Wharf repairs .. . ■ Item 42—Reconstruction of French Pass beacon Item 43—Refund of examination fee of W. H. Neilson Item 44—Refund of examination fee of J. Mclntyre Item 45—Rent amd expenses connectea with examinations, cfec. Item 46—Renewa 1 of telephone-line to Kaipara Lighthouse .. 10 0 0 302 8 0 11 15 3 15 5 0 10 6 24 1 8 13 0 8 652 14 7 377 11 1 41 13 3 303 7 10 200 0 0 50 0 0 60 6 4 50 0 0 367 15 0 99 17 6 637 0 4 250 0 0 199 17 9 14 13 4 98 0 11 478 0 5 95 0 11 164 15 11 224 2 9 0 10 0 10 0 112 3 7 36 14 11 Carried forwara 7,072 3 0