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Return showing the Total Ordinary Expenditure of the Marine and Inspection of Machinery Department, etc. — continued.

Nature of Expenditure. Details. Totals. errand Totals. Meteorological Office— continued. Printing and stationery Rent, office equipment, &c. Repairs to instrument, and purchase of Telephones Weather messages by wireless Contingencies £ s. d. 64 16 9 140 1 II 36 4 (i 41 1.0 0 100 0 0 63 12 8 £ s. d. £ 8. d. 3,094 8 8 Mercantile Marino Offices :— Salaries Cleaning offices Ofnco equipment and rent .. .. Maintaining launch for Wellington Surveyors Telephones .. .. ... Travelling allowances and expenses Contingencies Extra clerical assistance 6,610 5 7 10 I 3 187 I I 35 4 9 121 3 8 175 19 9 4 7 1 446 3 0 Inspection of machinery and survey of ships : — Salaries Advertising, books, and periodicals Collection of inspection fees .. .. ... Rent, cleaning offices, &o. .. . . .. Telephones Travelling allowances and expenses Contingencies 7.590 (i 2 11,589 3 2 43 3 6 150 0 0 102 14 2 128 14 4 3,706 17 10 64 3 5 15,784 16 5 Protection of fish and oysters :— Salaries Benzine, oil, stores, &o. Casual labour Collection and distribution of brown-trout ova Hakataramea Salmon-hatchery Grant for maintenance of fish-hatchery at Portobello Picking and sale of oysters Planting oysters .. .. Stocking rivers with salmon Subsidy to Portobello Fish-hatchery for research work (£1. for£l) Travelling allowances and expenses Contingencies Bonuses and gratuities Compassionate allowance (Mrs. Anderton) 1,756 1 11 412 11 5 133 9 0 14 5 3 65 4 9 500 0 0 5,654 9 11 212 16 1 882 14 6 10 0 0 366 18 4 654 14 6 40 8 0 280 0 0 10,983 13 8 Government steamers:— S.s. " Hinemoa " Training-ship " Amokura " .. Installation of wireless, Training-ship " Amokura " ' Steamer " Rama " .. 9,998 6 6 9,113 3 7 675 0 0 275 19 1 66,325 13 8 20,062 9 2 Miscellaneous services : — Administration of the Shipping and Seamen Act and inquiries into shipping casualties Waitapu leading-lights Carriage and freight Checking overcrowding on steamers Contribution to New Zealand Sailors' Room, England .. Piako River leading-lights Expenses connected with examinations Extra clerical assistance Fog-signals, cartridges, and maintenance ... .. Gas and fuel for offices Audit fees Office equipment Postage, telegrams, rent of boxos .. .. Preparation of tide-tables Printing and stationery Relief of distressed seamen Allowance to officer under Public Service Regulations .. Charts, books, &c. River-protection works, Waikanae Superannuation of R. C. Hunter, injured on " Tutanekai " Survey of unseaworthy ships Irrecoverable fees, A. E. V. .. .. .. .. Telephones Travelling allowances and expenses .. .. Contingencies Prosecutions under Shipping, Harbours, and Fisheries Acts War bonus to officers Remission of foreshore-rent Repairing shed, Grove Wharf Repairing wharf, Russell 'II 408 16 3 82 10 0 42 4 6 355 9 2 26 17 0 35 4 6 310 I 0 1,209 19 2 426 9 10 16 7 0 150 0 0 82 9 7 866 8 5 550 0 0 298 2 6 1 7 0 139 1 3 80 4 10 40 0 0 90 0 0 9 19 6 3 0 0 73 5 7 24 18 2 128 3 4 67 0 2 1,988 Hi 7 I 0 0 10 0 I) 105 14 7 Credits .. .. .. 7.623 9 II 703 II 7 6,800 18 4 Grand total 93,248 1 2