8.—7

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Appropriations for Consolidated Fund Services.

CLASS XIV.—DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE, COMMERCE, AND TOURISTS—continued.

'tern. 1910-11. AGRICULTURE AND COMMERCE— continued. VOTE No. 78— continued, Live-stock and Meat Division —continued. Other Charges for and incidental to — Bicycles and repairs Breeding of Angora goats ... ... _ ... Compassionate allowance to the widow of D. L. Luxford, late District Agent, Napier ... Expenses of committee reporting on brand schemes Expenses, poultry plucking and grading depots Experiments in connection with bush-sickness Extra clerical assistance Grant towards cost of printing report of New Zealand Poultry Conference Inoculation of calves for "black-leg " Inspection of manure-sterilising: Labour, travelling, office, and other expenses, Australia and India Inspection of meat Legal expenses Passages of new Veterinarians from England Postage, telegrams, and rent of boxes Poultry Farms and Buildings (not attached to Experimental Farms), including Purchase of Birds and Material — Burnham Milton Other Farms Quarantine-stations, Auckland, Wellington, and Lyttel- £ 24 25 26 100 60 27 2S 29 80 81 134 25 500 500 200 82 88 10 125 84 35 86 37 800 225 150 300 500 38 39 40 41 700 1,000 10 42 43 ton 300 500 44 15 46 Removal expenses Subscriptions and extensions to telephones, including bureau charges Testing stock and disposing of diseased cattle Travelling allowances and expenses Wages and Expenses in connection with Veterinary Laboratory, and land and buildings used in connection therewith, including the cost of investigation of diseases Contingencies, including unforeseen expenditure incidental to the Live-stock and Meat Division items of the vote 150 150 5,500 750 47 75 12 ,764 is Fields and Experimental Farms Division — Salaries — Director Assistant Director 5 Clerks: 1 at £230, 1 at £200, 1 at £190, 1 at £175, 1 at. £140 6 Cadets: 1 at £110, 2 at £85, 1 at £75, 2 at £65 4 Fields Supervisors at £335 ... 2 Fields Instructors : 1 at £265, 1 at £240 61 Inspectors of Rabbits and Noxious Weeds : 1 at £325, I at £295, 4 at £290, 2 at £2S0, 2 at £270, 1 at £250, 1 at £245, 5 at £240, 2 at £230, 1 at £220, 9 at £200, 8 at £190, 24 at £180 Caretaker of Rabbit Fence 5 Experimental Farm Managers : 1 at £225, 1 at £210, 2 at £185, 1 at £1S0 3 Experimental Farm Overseers : 1 at £150, 1 at £145, 1 at £100 (also Caretaker, Quarantine Station, £40) 625 385 935 485 1 ,340 505 12 ,895 100 985 395