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Appropriations for Consolidated Fund Services.

MINES DEPARTMENT— continued.

Number of Persons. Item. VOTE No. 22.—MINES DEPARTMENT— continued. 1924-25. 1924-25. Subdivision No. II. — Geological Survey Branch — continued. £ £ 14 15 16 17 Other Charges for and incidental to—continued. Printing bulletins, lithographing, &c. Printing and stationery Rents and rates ... Telephone services (including installation, extensions, maintenance, rent, and calls) Travelling allowances and expenses Tools and field equipment Wages of field hands Contingencies, including unforeseen expenditure incidental to the other items of this subdivision 800 30 235 18 19 20 21 25 400 150 800 7,617 20 Total — Subdivision No. II 3,500 Subdivision No. III. — Miscellaneous Services. 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 22 23 24 Charges for and incidental to — Advertising, photographs, books, newspapers, and other publications Assistance towards— Ambulance classes Bounty payable to Onakaka Iron and Steel Company (Limited), under the Iron and Steel Industries Act, 1914 Experiments in connection with inflammability of coal-dust Maintenance of roads and works Prospecting Cost of collecting goldfields revenue Diamond and other drills and appliances (workingexpenses only), (partly recoverable) ... Examinations, Mining and Coal-mines Acts Experiments in connection with utilization of brown coals Expert and temporary assistance, fees, wages, Aic. Freight, cartage, and transport charges ... Fuel, light, water, and cleaning Grants— Granity Creek Outlet Hogburn Sludge Channel, at Naseby : Construction of groynes and stop-bank Libraries in mining townships Thames water-race repairs Instruments and apparatus ... Instrument and outfit allowances for Inspectors of Mines and repairs and maintenance instruments... Law-costs Maintenance of Water-races— Mount Ida Waimea-Kumara Motor-cars (maintenance) .... Office fittings and requisites (including typewriters) Postage, telegrams, and rent of boxes ... Printing and stationery Refunds of revenue under section 154 (3) of the Mining Act, 1908 (recoverable) Rents 70 25 4,885 100 2,000 10,000 200 1,560 90 137 400 50 25 35 36 88 37 38 39 40 41 50 50 100 10 241 100 42 13 44 45 46 47 48 200 457 300 50 300 450 49 50 571