117

8.—7

Appropriations for Consolidated Fund Services.

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

[tern. 191 i-ll. AGRICULTURE AND COMMERCE— continued. VOTE No. 78— continued. Fields and Experimental Farms Division — continued. Salaries —continued. 3 Clerks at Experimental Farms : 1 at £140, 1 at £135, 1 at £125 2 Overseers Poultry-breeding Stations (attached to Experimental Farms) 1 at £130, 1 at £100 5 Hemp Graders: 1 at £325, 2 at £300, 1 at £260. 1 at £250 Hemp Instructor Grain Grader, Dunedin £ IS 400 230 1,435 260 50 Other Charges for and incidental to — Bicycles and repairs Co-operative field experiments... Compassionate allowance to N. Campbell, late rabbiter Cultivation of phormium tenax... Departmental apiaries Destruction of noxious weeds on Native lands Destruction of Rabbits on Crown Lands — Auckland District Napier „ Wellington - West Coast „ Marlborough-Nelson-Westland „ Canterbury-Kaikoura „ Otago „ Destruction of rabbits on Native Lands Equipment of young men's training quarters at Ruakura Experimental Farm: Furniture, watersupply, Ac. Expenses, grading New Zealand Hemp Experimental Farms : Erection and Repairs of Buildings, Purchase of Stock, Entertainment of Visitors, and General Working— Arataki Bickerstaffe Lichfield Motuihi Island Moumahaki Ruakura Tauranga Waerenga Weraroa Experiments in cultivating North Auckland gum lands Experiments in re-grassing denuded lands... Experiments in utilization of pumice lands Extra clerical assistance Grain Grading Legal expenses ... ... Postage, telegrams, and rent of boxes Poultry Farms (attached to Experimental Farms) : Buildings, Purchase of Birds, Ac. — Moumahaki Ruakura Preparation of weed-seed cabinets Purchase of stud stock, including expenses of importation Removal expenses Seeds and plants for distribution Subscriptions and extensions to telephones, including bureau charges ci__ii • i • ..I. . 1 l 3 •. £ .1 .1... l1 _f il. . -rr _ _ 21,025 49 50 51 52 53 54 50 1,000 50 100 400 3 ,000 55 50 57 58 59 60 61 02 3 ,500 2 ,500 800 100 750 2 ,500 4 ,000 03 1,500 50 04 05 00 07 OS 09 7o 71 72 73 74 75 70 77 78 79 700 700 50 700 2 ,500 4,850 700 5 ,500 3 ,000 • 250 250 250 25 10 100 950 80 81 S2 S3 84 85 86 500 500 20 2 ,500 250 25 150