8.—7

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Appropriations for Consolidated Fund Services.

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

, ""■ 1 Item. 1916-17. * AGRICULTURE, INDUSTRIES, AND COMMERCE continued. £ £ VOTE No. 12—continued. Fields Division— continued. Other Charges for and incidental to—continued. 68 Co-operative Field Crop Experiments and Provision for Visitors— £ Wages ... ... 350 Other expenses ... ... 2,650 3,000 69 Destruction of Noxious Weeds on Native Lands — Wages ... ... 750 Other expenses ... ... 250 70 Destruction of Rabbits on Crown LandsWages ... ... 3,500 Other expenses ... ... 5,500 1,000 9,000 71 Destruction of Rabbits on Native Lands — Wages ... ... 5,500 Other expenses ... ... 3,000 8,500 Experimental and Instructional Farms: General Working, Rent of Land, Buildings, Purchase of Stock, Provision for Visitors, and Salaries of Learners, Special Instructors, Matrons, and Domestic Assistants, — 72 Moumahaki— £ Wages ... ... 1,250 Other expenses ... ... 3,750 i. _ 73 Ruakura— Wages ... ... 3,000 Other expenses ... ... 5,000 —I 74 Weraroa — Wages ... ... 3,500 Other expenses ... ... 2,000 75 Ashburton — Wages ... ... 750 Other expenses ... ... 750 76 Other locations in South Island — Wages ... ... 2,000 Other expenses ... ... 4,000: 5,000 8,000 5,500 1,500 1 6,000 77 Experimental Areas : North Auckland Gum Lands — Wages ... ... 350 Other expenses ... ... 450 78 Experiments in Regrassing Denuded Lands — Wages ... ... 50 Other expenses ... ... 200 79 Experiments in the control of drifting sand 80 Experiments in Utilization of Pumice Lands — Wages ... ... 50 Other expenses ... ... 250 800 250 500 300 Si Experiments on Pakihi Lands, Westland— Wages ... ... 100 Other expenses ... ... 350 450