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Return showing the Total Ordinary Expenditure of the Marine Department— continued.

Nature of Expenditure. Details. Totals. Grand Totals. Lighthouses:— Salaries of keepers Oil .. Stores and contingencies Keepers' travelling-expenses Lighthouse expert Compassionate allowance to widow of late Lightkeeper C. Godfrey £ s. d. : £ s. d. £ s. d. 10,021 8 4 1,319 1 5 5,530 9 5 165 12 8 265 0 0 90 0 0 Meteorological Office :— Salaries of staff and Observers Postage and telegrams Instruments and repairs Rent Cleaning offices Fencing enclosure at Auckland Sundries .. .. ,. 17,391 11 10 995 18 5 791 2 0 50 16 9 128 6 8 30 0 0 71 15 6 47 9 4 Mercantile Marine Offices :— Salaries of staff Salaries of Surveyors and Inspectors Cleaning offices Office equipment and rent Subscriptions to telephones Sundries Travelling-expenses .. .. ... 2,115 8 8 2,107 3 0 645 0 0 14 6 11 152 15 10 35 10 0 65 19 11 53 12 9 3,074 8 5 Protection of Fish and Oysters :— Salaries Collection and sale of oysters Casual labour Collection, &c, brown-trout ova* Experimental trawling Grant to Portcbello Fish-hatchery Board Expenses re introduction of sea-fish Introduction of Atlantic salmon Introduction of British Crustacea " Oil launches and boats for fisheries Protective works, Hakataramea Stocking Westland rivers with trout Travelling and other expenses in connection with Fisheries Conf?rence at Washington Travelling-expenses Contingencies 885 7 6 5,491 13 9 12 16 10 253 9 11 51 9 0 250 0 0 222 15 0 473 11 1 6 6 0 728 2 11 17 1 5 50 0 0 178 11 10 82 18 7 17 12 6 Hakataramea Salmon Station— Salaries General working expenses 8,721 16 4 351 10 0 135 13 0 I 487 3 0 9,208 19 4 Less recoveries „. „ 39,197 6 1 633 2 10 Total, Marine and Harbours 38,564 3 3 Government steamers:— Working-expenses, s.s. " Hinemoa " .. Working-expenses, s.s. " Tutanekai " Engine-room repairs, s.s. " Hinemoa " Auxiliary condenser, s.s. " Tutanekai " Expenses, training-ship " Amokura " Repairs, renewals, &c. „ 8,419 8 9 10,534 9 1 1,035 9 1 184 18 11 7,007 12 11 95 10 0 Less contribution from Postal Department for cable work, freights, passages, &c. 27,277 8 9 2,699 17 3 Miscellaneous services:— Administration " Shipping and Seamen Act, 1908," and inquiries into shipping casualties Beacon, Jackson's Head (maintenance) Cartage and freight Charts and books Checking overcrowding of steamers Erection of light, Anglem Point, Stewart Island Extra clerical assistance Fog-signals—Cartridges and maintenance Horse-shoe Bay Wharf and protection Napier—West Shore protective works New Zealand Nautical Almanac Passage to England of Mrs. Mclntyre (widow of engineer, s.s. " Tutanekai ") and children Prosecutions under Shipping, Harbours, and Fisheries Acts 24,577 11 6 621 9 0 62 19 11 67 1 5 252 8 10 357 16 0 81 9 11 71 10 0 346 14 6 250 0 0 250 0 0 284 7 2 50 0 0 140 16 10 * The ova collected is sold to the acclimatisation societies at 5s. per 1,000, and the >roceeds credited to the voi