175

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Appropriations for Consolidated Fund Services.

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE— continued.

Number if Persons. Item. 192 :-25. 1924-25. VOTE No. 38.—DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE— continued Subdivision No. II. — Live-stock Division —continued. £ 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 Other Charges for and incidental to— -continued. Destruction of the kea (part recoverable) Destruction of wild pigs : Contributions towards. (£200 also provided under each of votes " Department of Lands and Survey " and " State Forest Service" Diseases of Live-stock— Applying tuberculin test to cattle and disposing of diseased stock Expenses in connection with control of cattle-tick, and provision for caretakers at crossing places ... Experiments in connection with bush-sickness and allied troubles Inoculation of calves for " black-leg " Loans to cattle-dipping associations in need of financial assistance Subsidies to cost of erection of cattle-dips Experimental Farm, Mamaku : Wages and general working-expenses, buildings, purchase of stock, and provision for visitors Grants— Part cost of egg-laying competitions at Auckland and Christchurch ... Part cost of printing Poultry Conference Report ... Inspection of manure-sterilizing (Australia and India) : Labour, travelling, office, and other expenses (part recoverable) ... Inspection of meat Law-costs Poultry farms— Avonhead : Wages and general working-expenses, buildings, purchase of birds and material, and provision for visitors (part recoverable) Preparation of wool specimens for instructional purposes Quarantine - stations, Auckland, Wellington, and Lyttelton (recoverable) Telephone services (including extensions, maintenance, rent, and calls) ... Temporary assistance Transfer and removal expenses Travelling allowances and expenses Veterinary Laboratory : Wages and general workingexpenses, land and buildings, and investigation of diseases Contingencies, including unforeseen expenditure incidental to the Live-stock Division items of the vote 1,200 190 150 650 .100 150 3,000 600 1,000 200 10 1,225 750 50 71 72 73 50 74 25 75 1,750 76 77 78 79 80 500 1,000 1,500 18,000 850 81 40 Estimated credits-in-aid under Section 48 of the Public Revenues Act, 1910 (see end of vote) — Destruction of rabbits ... £10,000 Destruction of rabbits — Department of Lands and Survey 10,000 Native Department ... 7,500 Farm areas ... ... 900 Quarantine-stations ... ... 1,000 Sundry items ... ... 925 77,240 30,325 Total — Subdivision No. II 160,75