8.—7

178

Appropriations for Consolidated Fund, Services.

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE-continued.

of N p™. Item - 1925-26. VOTE No. 36.—DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE —, 1925-26. continued. & & Subdivision No. I.—Head Office—continued. Other Charges for and incidental to —continued. 10 Expenses of New Zealand Wool Committee ... I 100 Experimental and Instructional Farms : Wages and ; General Working Expenses, Rent of Land, j Buildings, Purchase of Stock, Provision for Visitors, and Salaries of Student Assistants, Learners, Special Instructors, and Domestic Assistants (partly recoverable), — 11 Moumahaki ... ... ... 500 12 Ruakura— £ Wages and other expenses ... 8,000 Educational work ... ... 4,200 12,200 13 Weraroa ... ... ... 6,500 14 Waimaunga (West Coast, S.I.) ... ... 900 lo Freight, cartage, and transport charges... ... 100 16 Fuel, light, water, furniture, office requisites, insurance, cleaning offices, outbuildings, yards, and approaches ' ... ... ... 1,000 Grants— 17 Dargaville Demonstration Farm ... ... 325 18 Establishment of an experimental area at Lepperton ... ... ... 375 19 Imperial Bureau of Entomology ... ... 400 20 Imperial Bureau of Mycology ... ... 300 21 Imperial Entomological Conference in London : Cost of representation ... ... ... 127 22 International Institute of Agriculture, and cost of representation at ... ... ... 200 23 International Institute of Refrigeration ... 160 24 Lincoln Agricultural College, in connection with plant breeding and selection (seed wheat and oats) ... ... ... 500 25 Moa Seed Farm Association ... ... 300 26 Railage on fodder for starving dairy-stock in South Canterbury and North Otago ... ... 100 27 Railway Department for carriage of lime for bona fide farmers ... ... ... 26,500 28 Repairs to road between Ross and Ross Lime Works ... ... ... 25 29 Royal Agricultural Society ... ... 500 ] 30 Stratford model dairy farm and experimental area 370 ! 31 Travelling - expenses of B. C. Aston, Chemist, in South Africa and Europe ... ... 100 32 Waimate West Experimental Farm ... ... 100 33 Inquiry into sale of Poverty Bay Meat-works to Vestey Brothers ... ... ... 3,500 34 Laboratory (chemical) ... ... ... 450 35 Law-costs ... ... ... 25 Lime production— 36 Development of ... ... ... 20 37 Subsidy to Farmers' Co-operative Lime Companies 300 38 Postage, telegrams, and rent of boxes ... ... 5,000 39 Preparation and distribution of publications ... 3,300 40 Printing and stationery ... ... ... 3,000 41 Promotion of sale of New Zealand produce in outside markets ,.. ... ... 500 Purchase of— 42 Books, newspapers, and other publications ... 400 43 Stud stock, including expenses of importation ... 1,000 44 Rents of Offices in New Zealand and abroad ... 5,500