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PUBLIC ACCOUNTS, 1909-1910.

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

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CLASS VIIL—MINES DEPARTMENT :— Vote No. 42.—Miscellaneous Services :— Item 1—Advertising, books, newspapers, periodioals/and photos Item 2—Buffalo Domain, Coromandel Item 3—Compiling plans of mining claims Item 4—Cost of work done and material "supplied by other Departments Item 5—Cost of collecting goldfields revenue Item 6 —Expenses of Boards of Examiners under Mining and Coal-mines Acts — Advertising Copying examination-papers and answers Fees as members of Examiners Board Reporting Setting examination-papers and supervising examinations .. Travelling-expenses Typing £ I s. d. £ s. d. £ s. d. 101 0 1 100 0 0 36 5 0 211 15 7 19 8 0 150 16 10 4 2 6 35 17 10 3 3 0 150 2 2 10 5 6 4 10 Item 7—Extinguishing burning coal-seams Item 8—Expert and temporary assistance and wages Item 9—Field surveys and expenses Item 10—Fuel, light, water, freight, and cartage Item 11 —Grants to libraries in mining townships Item 12—Instruments ana apparatus Item 13 —Legal expenses Item 14 —Lodging-allowances of cadets Item 15 —Mail-service, Cromarty (half-cost) Maintenance and management of water-raoes — Item 16 —Waimea-Kumara — Bureau fees and rent of Post-offioe box.. Candles and kerosene.. Cartage Cleaning office Ironmongery and tools Salaries and wages Subsidy (J. Shannon and W. J. Mcllroy) Sundries Timber Travelling-expenses 358 8 10 60 2 0 253 6 0 8 0 6 31 9 11 50 0 0 70 11 10 17 17 4 50 0 0 • • 2 19 0 13 4 1 11 14 0 4 16 0 18 1 0 1,924 19 3 30 5 10 4 14 0 126 19 2 37 3 6 Item 17 —Alexandra— Salaries and wages Sundries Travelling allowances and expenses 2,174 15 10 460 12 0 1 18 0 6 12 6 469 2 6 Item 18 —Mount Ida — Cartage Coal and kerosene Rent of offioe Rent of Post-office box Repaiis to syphon Salaries and wages Timber Travelling allowances and expenses 8 0 6 6 0 0 36 10 0 10 0 4 3 5 1,845 0 6 21 5 7 3 3 0 Item 19 —Office rents, equipment, and cleaning Item 20—Payments and expenses under the Workers' Compensation Act, 1908, and amendments Item 21—Postage, telegrams, and rent of boxes Item 22—Purging mining-registers of obsolete titles Item 23—Refunds of rent, seotion 154, Mining Act, 1908 Item 24 —Reports on acoidents Item 25 —Schools of Mines — Advertising Chemicals Fuel .. Furniture and requisites Grant, Otago University Printing examination-papers Salaries Scholarships Setting examination-papers Subsidies— Coromandel School of Mines Karangahake School of Mines Reefton School of Mines Thames School of Mines Waihi School of Mines Westport School of Mines 1,925 3 0 260 3 1 I 265 9 4 2 0 0 132 12 5 110 2 2 0 6 16 2 2 8 4 12 18 2 1,000 0 0 7 2 0 531 13 4 99 0 0 37 16 0 221 15 6 295 17 0 115 19 0 780 0 0 847 9 6 187 10 0 2,448 11 0 5 18 6 22 0 0 85 2 10 Sundries Supervising examinations Travelling allowances and expenses Item 26 —Telephone subscriptions and expenses Item 27 —Travelling allowances and expenses Item 28—Contingencies— Auctioneer's commission, sale of Hector Township seotions 4,261 8 4 34 14 2 1,486 2 9 Total net expenditure,! Vote No. 42 7 7 0 £12,388 4 6