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Appropriations for Consolidated Fund Services.

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE— continued.

Number of Persons. Item. 1 VOTE No. 38—DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE— / continued. 1924-25. 1924-25. Subdivision No. III. — Horticulture Division. 82 Salaries— i £ £ 82 Professional Division. 1 Glass A — 1 at £665 Class C — 1 at £475 065 . 475 665 1 475 Clerical Division. Class IV— 1 at £400 Class VI— 1 at £335 Class VII— £ 2 at £295 ... ... 590 2 at £190 ... ... 380 1 at £95 ... ... 95 400 1 1 335 1,065 General Division. 1 at £415 ... ... 415 5 at £385 ... ... 1,925 1 at £380 ... ... 380 1 at £375 ... ... . 375 1 at £370 ... ... 370 1 at £360 ... ... 360 1 at £350 ... .. 350 5 at £335 ... ... 1,675 3 at £320 ... ... 960 3 at £300 ... ... 900 1 at £290 ... ... 290 2 at £285 ... ... 570 2 at £280 ... ... 560 3 at £275 (6 months) ... ... 412 1 at £240 ... ... 240 1 at £213 ... ... 213 1 at £197 ... ... 197 1 at £185 ... ... 185 1 at £175 ... ... 175 35 10,552 44 13,492 Other Charges for and incidental to — Apiary Industry— 83 Purchase of beekeeping requisites, material for experiments, &c. 84 Subsidy, National Beekeepers' Association of New Zealand (£1 for £1) 85 Bicycles, motors, and repairs Fruit Industry— 86 Collection of orchard tax (recoverable) 87 Control of fireblight disease 88 Co-operative fruit-testing areas 89 Cutting out of abandoned orchards 90 Experimental orchard, Papanui (part recoveral le) 91 Fumigation and destruction of diseased fruit 92 Grant to Institute of Horticulture 93 Guarantee on shipments of fruit (partly recoverable) 94 Purchase of orchard requisites, fruit for experiments, &c. 83 84 86 86 87 88 89 90 91 92 93, 91 60 100 1,000 250 1,000 50 100 150 200 150 10,000 100