8.—7.

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Appropriations for Consolidated Fund Services.

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE —continued.

(a) Credits-in-aid— Other Salaries. Charges. 1925-26. • £ £ £ Subdivision I .. .. 1,015 18,500 19,515 II .. .. 2,000 33,050 35,050 111 .. .. .. 4,450 4,450 IV .. .. 2,500 23,500 26,000 V .. .. .. 5,372 5,372 Totals .. .. 5,515 84,872 90,387

ofp™. Item - 1925-26. VOTE No. 36.—DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 1925-26. —continued. £ £ Subdivision No. V:■—Fields Division—continued. Other Charges for and incidental to —continued. 134 Experimental seeds and plants for distribution ... 50 135 Flesh-collapse in apples ... ... ... 100 136 Grant to J. G. Myers, Entomological Correspondent in United States ... ... ... 100 137 New Zealand hemp industry : Grading New Zealand hemp ... ... ... 100 138 Law-costs ... ... ... 20 139 Plant-breeding ... ... ... 100 140 Storage of agricultural seeds... ... ... 100 141 Sugar-beet industry: Procuring information in America ... ... ... 250 142 Telephone services (including installations, extensions, maintenance, rent, and calls) ... ... 100 143 Top-dressing danthonia - brown-top grassland ... 670 144 Transfer and removal expenses ... ... 200 145 Travelling allowances and expenses ... ... 6,560 146 Travelling - expenses in Australia of J. W. Deem, Instructor in Agriculture ... ... 150 147 Travelling expenses of R. B. Tennent, Instructor in Agriculture, in America ... ... 400 148 Treatment of field-crop diseases ... ... 100 149 Contingencies, including unforeseen expenditure incidental to the Fields Division items of the vote ... 15 21,315 Estimated credits-in-aid under Section 48 of the Public Revenues Act, 1910 (see end of vote) — Farm areas ... ... £3,072 Grading hemp ... ... 1,500 Seed-testing ... ... 800 5,372 Total—Subdivision No. V ... 37,548 Gross Total ... ... ... ... 466,211 Credits-in-aid (a) ... ... ... ... 90,387 NET TOTAL—VOTE No. 36 ... 375,824