8.—7

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Appropriations for Consolidated Fund Services.

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

Item. 1912-13. AGRICULTURE, INDUSTRIES, AND COMMERCE— continued. 89 90 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 .98 99 100 101 102 VOTE No. 77— continued. Fields and Experimental Fabms Division — continued. Other Charges for and incidental to —continued. Grading New Zealand Hemp ... Grain grading Legal expenses Official opening Ruakura Farm of Instruction Postage, telegrams, and rent of boxes Preparation of weed-seed cabinets Purchase of live-stock for fattening on Experimental Farms Purchase of stud stock, including expenses of importation Removal and reinstatement of engine-house, pumpingengine, and windmill, Waerenga Experimental Farm Removal expenses Repainting buildings, Moumahaki Experimental Farm... Repainting buildings, Ruakura Farm of Instruction Seeds and plants for distribution Subscriptions and extensions to telephones, including bureau charges Subsidies to local bodies for the destruction of the Kea Training of young men at Farms of Instruction, including working-expenses, salaries of special instructors, young men, matron, and domestic assistants — Moumahaki Ruakura Weraroa Travelling allowances and expenses Wages and expenses in connection with destruction of noxious weeds Contingencies, including unforeseen expenditure incidental to the Fields and Experimental Farms Division items of the vote ... ... £ 50 10 50 38 850 50 500 3,000 50 300 150 200 25 103 50 60 .04 .05 .06 .07 .08 500 1,000 500 9,700 .09 500 50 64 ,903 10 Obchabds, Gabdeks, and Apiabies Division— Director Assistant Director 4 Clerks : 1 at £240, 1 at £210, 2 at £110 Cadet Vine and Wine Instructor 4 Fruit Inspectors : 1 at £200, 1 at £190, 1 at £180, 1 at £150 16 Orchard Instructors : 3 at £230, 2 at £220,1 at £210, 1 at £200, 5 at £190, 1 at £180, 8 at £170 4 Apiary Instructors: 1 at £180, 3 at £170 575 365 670 40 220 720 3,180 690 6 ,460 .11 12 .18 .14 .15 .16 .17 .18 19 Other Charges for and incidental to — Bicycles and repairs Bonus to officers s.s. Kaipara on landing shipment of apples to London in good condition ... Bonus to W. H. Taylor for discovery of treatment in connection with woolly aphis Co-operative fruit-testing plots Extra clerical assistance Fostering the bee industry ... ... ..., Fostering the fruit industry ... Fumigation and destruction of fruit Grant towards printing report of conference of New Zealand Fruit Growers' Associations Guarantee on experimental shipment of apples Importation and breeding of natural enemies to insect pests Legal expenses 50 50 50 100 25 50 150 100 .20 .21 25 445 .22 50 20