8.—7.

Appropriations for Consolidated Fund Services.

CLASS XXI.—DEPARTMENT OF LANDS AND SURVEY— continued.

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Item. 1908-9. MISCELLANEOUS SERVICES. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 VOTE No. 72. Charges incidental to — Arrears of rates due by Crown tenants (section 143, "Land Act, 1908") Assistance towards making a sheep-dip at Te Rau-a-moa Board of Examiners of Surveyors, Grant to Botanical surveys of New Zealand forests Buffalo Domain (fencing) Bunnvthorpe Recreation-ground, purchase of land (£1 for£l) Caretaker and expenses in connection with preservation of scenery, Ship Cove and other reserves, including clearing of a firebelt Clarence River Protective Works, at, Waipapa, S.G.R. No. 107 (£2 for £1) Clearing Myross School Reserve Compensation for improvements and removal of hut through error in survey, Section 117, Matiri Block . Compensation for injuries to employees while in discharge of their duties, medical and other attendance during illness, and contingent, expenses in connection with £ 100 25 200 500 100 75 230 8 200 25 9 10 1.1 19 250 12 13 15 16 17 18 19 20 14 same Compensation to Native owners for Section 33, Te Araroa Native Township, now a recreation reserve ... Compensation to Taihape Dairy Company for land included in their title for Section 3, Block VII, Taihape, but forming part of the public road Compensation for improvements and leasehold interest in Section 157, Matata, required for road access to Manawahe Block Compensation for fencing road taken through Ngarara West A Block Compensation for land for road-access to the Tamaki Block (and fencing) Compensation for land resumed under " The Land Act, 1908," for scenery and other public purposes Compensation for loss of area by original Native owners of Waikaka Reserve (see section 5 of " Native Land Claims, &c, Act, 1884 "), the reserve being located on lands over which the Crown held no control Compensation for road deviation. Block I, Rintoul Survey District (Richmond) Compensation under Public Works Act for leasehold interests in Rotokare Domain revoked by " The Rotokare Domain Repeal Act, 1903" Compensation to McCarroll Bros, and Chadwick, on account of alleged shortage of timber purchased in the Tangihua Forest, the subject of a petition to Pailiament, inquired into and recommended bv R. W. Dyer, S.M. Compensation to Messrs. Hammond and Campbell, owing to error in placing survey-pegs Compensation for fencing road of access to lands of Creed and others, Hahei Parish, Coromandel County Compensation to G. Powell for drainage-works done on Section 67, owing to error in survey of Section 466, Parish of Taupiri Compensation to H. Hearn for bridge erected over Rangitata River on road-line to Crown Reserves 2883 and 2884 ... ... Compensation for lands to be taken at Oparau, Kawhia, for steamer and launch landings Compensation to T. Knowles, owing to error in survey of Section 8, Block XIII, Punakitere Compassionate allowance to Mrs, F J. Parker, to compensate for losses sustained 30 100 135 262 79 250 150 26 550 21 557 22 5 23 24 32 21 25 100 26 25 27 28 9 100