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Appropriations for Consolidated Fund Services.

Number Item of Persons. 1921-22. I AGRICULTURE—continued. 192 -22. VOTE No. 40— continued. Live-stock Division — continued. 76 77 78 76 77 78 Other Charges for and incidental to — Allowances to officers temporarily performing special or higher duties Bicycles, motors, and repairs Destruction of Noxious Weeds— Destruction of Noxious Weeds on Native Lands— £ Wages ... ... 200 Other expenses ... ... 50 100 2,400 250 79 79 Wages and Expenses in connection with Destruction of Noxious Weeds— £ Wages ' ... ... 300 Other expenses ... ... 50 350 80 80 Destruction of Rabbits—■ Destruction of Rabbits, General Working-expenses, Poison-mixing Depots, Purchase of Material, &c— £ Wages ... ... 2,500 Other expenses ... ... 8,000 81 81 Destruction of Rabbits on Crown Lands — Wages ... ... 5,000 Other expenses ... ... 5,000 10,500 10,000 82 82 Destruction of Rabbits on Native Lands— Wages ... ... 4,000 Other expenses ... ... 3,500 7,500 83 84 85 83 84 Diseases of Livestock— Applying tuberculin test to cattle and disposing of diseased stock Experiments in connection with bush-sickness and allied troubles Inoculation of Calves for " Black-leg " — £ Wages ... ... 100 Other expenses ... ... 200 250 100 85 300 4,000 2,200 86 87 88 86 87 88 Subsidies to cost of erection of cattle-dips Destruction of the kea Experimental Farm, Mamaku: General Working, Buildings, Purchase of Stock, and Provision for Visitors — £ Wages ... ... 500 Other expenses ... ... 1,500 2,000 89 90 89 90 Grant to H. L. Worthington to cover expenses in connection with rabbit destruction experiments Inspection of Manure-sterilizing (Australia and India): Labour, Travelling, Office, and other Expenses— £ Wages ... ... 300 Other expenses ... ... 3,294 143 91 92 93 91 92 93 Inspection of meat Law-costs Milton Poultry Farm : General Working, Buildings, Purchase of Birds and Material, and Provision for Visitors — £ Wages ... ... 200 Other expenses ... ... 1,400 3,594 600 200 1,600