8.—7

160

Appropriations for Consolidated Fund- Services.

CLASS XVII.—DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE, INDUSTRIES, AND COMMERCE-continued.

Number of ifficers in each Class. Item. 1919-20. 1919-20. AGRICULTURE, INDUSTRIES, AND COMMERCE - continued. 84 VOTE No. 35— continued. Live-stock Division— continued. Other Charges for and incidental to —continued. Destruction of Rabbits on Crown Lands— £ Wages ... ... 4,000 Other expenses ... ... 2,500 85 Destruction of Rabbits on Native Lands— Wages ... ... 8,000 Other expenses ... ... 1,000 6,500 9,000 86 Experimental Farm, Mamaku : General Working, Buildings, Purchase of Stock, and Provision for Visitors — , £ Wages ... ... 200 Other expenses ... ... 700 900 87 88 89 90 Experiments in connection with bush-sickness and allied troubles Extra clerical assistance Farming operations, Tauherenikau : Purchase of seeds, manures, live-stock, efec, recoverable from Defence Department Grant towards cost of printing report of New Zealand Poultry Conference Grant towards publishing results of New Zealand Poultry Association's egg-laying competition Grant towards New Zealand Poultry Association's Egg-laying Competition— £ Auckland ... ... .... 150 Papanui ... ... ... 52 200 50 300 10 91 50 92 93 Inoculation of Calves for " Black-leg"— Wages ... ... 100 Other expenses ... ... 200 202 300 25 94 95 Inspection of dairies Inspection of Manure-sterilizing (Australia and India): Labour, Travelling, Office, and other Expenses— £ Wages ... ... 100 Other expenses ... ... 150 90 97 98 Inspection of meat Legal expenses Milton Poultry Farm : General Working, Buildings, Purchase of Birds and Material, and Provision for Visitors — £ Wages ... ... 200 Other expenses ... ... 1,000 250 500 50 1,200 99 Quarantine Stations, Auckland, Wellington, and Lyttelton — £ Wages ... ... 600 Other expenses ... ... 1,800 100 101 Removal expenses Subscriptions and extensions to telephones, including bureau charges Subsidies to local bodies for the destruction of the kea Subsidies towards the cost of the erection of cattledips 2,400 1,500 102 103 100 200 600