125

8.—7

Appropriations for Consolidated Ftmd Services.

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

Item. 1912-13. AGRICULTURE, INDUSTRIES, AND COMMERCE— continued. 59 VOTE No. 17—continued. Fields and Expebimental Faems Division— continued. Salaries —continued. Agriculturist 4 Fields Supervisors at £345 ... 2 Fields Instructors: 1 at £285, 1 at £265 2 Assistant Fields Instructors : 1 at £150, 1 at £140 ... 63 Inspectors of Rabbits and Noxious Weeds : 1 at £325, 7 at £300, 2 at £290, 1 at £280, 6 at £260, 2 at £250, 1 at £240, 7 at £220,9 at £210,17 at £200, 6 at £170, 4 at £160 Caretaker of Rabbit Fence 5 Experimental Farm Managers : 1 at £260, 1 at £250, 1 at £215, 1 at £200, 1 at £185 3 Experimental Farm Overseers : 2 at £165, 1 at £120 (also Caretaker, Quarantine Station, £40) 4 Experimental Farm Manager's Assistants : 1 at £180, 1 at £140, 2 at £135 Vineyard Overseer 4 Orchard and Garden Overseers : 1 at £185,1 at £175, 1 at £150, 1 at £120 Overseer Poultry-breeding Stations (attached to Experimental Farms) Apiarist 6 Hemp Graders : 1 (Chief) at £325,2 at £300,1 at £275, 1 at £260,1 at £250 Plant Breeder £ 600 1,380 550 290 14 ,075 100 1,110 450 590 175 630 150 95 1,710 180 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 Other Charges for and incidental to — Bicycles and repairs Co-operative field experiments and provision for visitors Crop experiments on Crown lands, Westland Departmental apiaries Destruction of noxious weeds on Native lands Destruction of Rabbits on Crown Lands — Auckland District East Coast „ ... 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 Farm of Instruction: Furniture, Watersupply, <fcc. Experimental Farms and Farms of Instruction : Erection and Repairs of Buildings, Purchase of Stock, Provision for Visitors, and General Working— Arataki Bickerstaffe Lichfield Motuihi Island Moumahaki Ruakura Tauranga ... ... ■ Waerenga Weraroa Poultry Section— Moumahaki Ruakura Experiments in cultivating North Auckland gum lands Experiments in re-grassing denuded lands... Experiments in utilization of pumice lands Extra clerical assistance 24 ,690 50 2 ,010 300 300 1,500 4,050 2,665 2,470 1,350 250 650 2,750 5 ,500 200 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 81 82 950 900 100 600 3 ,500 5,065 750 5,500 4,000 83 84 85 86 87 88 10 600 400 400 400 50