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XVIII.-DEPARTMENT OF LANDS AND SURVEY— continued.

Appropriations for Consolidated Fund Services.

Number of Persons. Item. 192 -22. 1921-22. VOTE No. 37.—DEPARTMENT OF LANDS AND SURVEY— continued. £ Subdivision No. I. — Department of Lands and Survey — continued. 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 Other Charges for and incidental to — continued. Law-costs Motor vehicles : Purchase and maintenance Office-cleaning Office fittings and requisites (including printing and stationery) Overtime and meal allowances Postage, telegrams, and rent of boxes ... Premiums to teaching-surveyors (teaching survey cadets) Rent Telephone services (including installation, extensions, maintenance, rent, and calls) Temporary Assistance — Extra clerks ... ... } Extra typists ... ... > Extra draftsmen ... ... ) Temporary Surveyors and Parties— £ Extra surveyors ) -> cqq Extra surveyors' assistants j Wages, &c. ... ... 2,500 200 2,200 100 8,000 400 6,000 200 850 27 750 8,000* 28 29 30 31 Travelling allowances and expenses Trigs and standards, establishment and maintenance of Contingencies, including unforeseen expenditure incidental to the other items of the vote 4,000* 9,000 200 100 Less estimated credits under section 48 of the Public Revenues Act, 1910 108,650 61,668 Less amount to be recovered from Discharged Soldiers Settlement Account for management and other departmental expenses 46,982 40,000 6,982 Total — Subdivision No. I ... 198,144 Subdivision No. IT — Miscellaneous Services. 32 33 34 35 36 37 Charges for and incidental to — Aka Aka Drainage Board (subsidy 10s. in £1, on account of £2,500) Audit fees for inspection of accounts Aukopae Block, Taranaki— To complete formation in and continuation of Wanganui River Road ... Awaiti Canal and Road Board of Examiners of Surveyors, grant to Carriage of dairy-produce, Mahoenui Settlement to Poipoi (subsidy) Cemeteries— Fencing, forming, and improving cemeteries Clearing willows, Mangapu-Mangaokewa Streams (subsidy, 10s. for £1) 500 800 750 1,200 350 50 38 50 39 250 * Includes cost-of-living increase to scale salaries or wages.