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XII.—MINES DEPARTMENT— continued.

Appropriations for Consolidated Fund Services.

Number . of Person's. Item. 192 -22. VOTE No. 22,—MINES DEPARTMENT— continued. 1921-22. Subdivision No IT—Geological Survey Branch— continued. £ £ 7 8 9 10 ii: 12 13 Other Charges foe and incidental to—continued. Investigation, water-supplies Office fittings and-requisites (including printing and stationery) '.;.'■•'■■'■■ ... Postage, telegrams, and rent of boxes ... ... Petrographical specimens and petrographical and chemical apparatus Printing bulletins, lithographing, &c. Sorting and distributing mineral specimens Telephone services (including installation, extensions, maintenance, rent, and calls) ... Travelling allowances and expenses .:. Tools, equipment, and field expenses ... Wages ... ••• '-■■■■ Contingencies, including unforeseen expenditure incidental to the other items of the vote ' ."<■ - ... ' 50 50 50 20 250 20 14 15 16 17 25 400 400 800 20 II ... 2,450 6,546 Subdivision No. III. — Miscellaneous Services. 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 18 Charges for and incidental to — Advance to F. J. Gunn by the Government Agent, —Sydnev, to cover expenses when on a visit to Newcastle "relative to supplies of coal for New Zealand Advertising, photographs, books, newspapers, and other periodicals Assistance towards — Construction and maintenance of roads and works Prospecting Audit fees for inspection of accounts Bonus of 4d. per lb. for the production of the first 40,000 lb. of good marketable retorted quicksilver tCoal Control Branch : Working-expenses (including salaries of staff, cost-of-living bonus, and salaries of local secretaries) Diamond and other drills and appliances (workingexpenses only) Examinations, Mining and Coal-mines Acts Expenses, New Zealand Government Representative, Imperial Mineral Resources Bureau ... '"Expert and temporary assistance, fees, wages, &c. ... Freight, cartage, and transport charges ... Fuel, light, power, and water tGovernment Firewood Depot: Working-expenses (including salaries of staff, wages, and cost-of-living bonus), (recoverable) Grants— Bowling-green and tennis-court, Runanga Erection of dressing-shed, recreation-grounds, Denniston Libraries in mining townships Mine-water flooding, Thames Recreation-ground, Runanga Sick and accident funds ... 6 50 1,100 7,000 20 667 2,550 1,200 200 28 29 30 31 50 800 30 60 9,660 32 33 182 34 35 36 37 100 100 1,840 77 150 des co: B." st-of-living increase to scale salaries or wages. f Previously vc ited under vol ;e " Industries * Inclui Jommerci