8.—7

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Appropriations for Consolidated Fund Services.

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

torn. 1915-16. AGRICULTURE, INDUSTRIES, AND COMMERCE— continued. £ £ 89 90 93 92 93 VOTE No. 71— continued. Fields and Experimental Farms Division — continued. Other Charges for and incidental to —continued. Subscriptions and extensions to telephones, including bureau charges Subsidies to local bodies for the destruction of the kea Transit expenses of J. Brown and family from Australia Travelling allowances and expenses Wages and Expenses in connection with Destruction of Noxious Weeds— £ Wages ... ... 450 Other expenses ... ... 50 50 60 34 10,500 Contingencies, including unforeseen expenditure incidental to the Fields and Experimental Farms Division items of the vote... 500 94 100 Horticulture Division— Salaries — 63,184 95 Professional Division. 600 Class A — lat £600 Class D— 1 at £400 400 Clerical Division. Class VI— lat £260 Class VII— lat £165 Class VIII— £ 2 at £110 ... ... 220 1 at £65 . ' ... ... 65 260 165 285 General Division. 4 at £260 ... .. 1,040 3 at £240 ... ... 720 2 at £230 ... ... 460 3 at £220 ... ... 660 4 at £210 ... ... 840 5 at £200 ... ... 1,000 1 at £190 ... ... 190 1 at £180 ... ... 180 lat £170 ... ... 170 5,260 Less proportion of increases to salaries provided for but not payable for full year ... 6,970 23 Other Charges for and incidental to — Bicycles and repairs Co-operative fruit-testing plots Co-operative vegetable-testing plots Extra clerical assistance Fostering the bee industry ... Fostering the fruit industry ... Fumigation and destruction of diseased fruit Grant towards cost of printing report of Beekeepers' Conference Grant towards printing report of conference of New Zealand Fruit Growers' Associations ... 6,947 96 97 98 99 100 101 102 103 500 150 100 25 150 150 150 104 20 I I 25