8.—7.

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Appropriations for Consolidated Fund Services.

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE—continued.

o, N Petol 1927-28. 1927-28. VOTE No. 37.—DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE— ~~ continued. . £ £ Subdivision No. II.—Live-stock Division—continued. Othek Charges for and incidental to —continued. Destruction of Rabbits— 52 Advances to Boards in terms of Sections 104-113 of Rabbit Nuisance Act, 1908 (recoverable) ... 2,000 53 Compensation for stock accidentally poisoned ... 48 54 On Crown lands (recoverable) ... ... 6,500 55 On Natire lands (recoverable) ... ... 5,500 56 Rabbit Boards, subsidies to ... ... 13,500 Wages and general working-expenses, poison- | mixing depots, purchase of material, &c. (recoverable) — 57 Trading section (recoverable) ... ... 6,000 58 Non-trading section (recoverable) ... ... 750 59 Destruction of the kea (part recoverable) ... 750 60 Destruction of wild pigs; also votes Department of Lands and Survey, £400, and State Forest Service, £400 ... ... ... 400 | Diseases of Live-stock — I 61 Applying tuberculin test to cattle and disposing of diseased stock ... ... ... 25 62 Cattle-dips at Mahakatino and Piopio ... 150 63 Control of cattle-tick, and provision for caretakers at crossing places ... .. ... 900 64 Experiments in connection with bush-sickness and allied troubles ... ... ... 350 65 Inoculation of calves for " black-leg " ... 75 66 Loans to cattle-dipping associations in need of financial assistance ... ... ... 1,500 67 Subsidies to cost of erection of cattle-dips ... 150 68 Experimental Farm, Mamaku : Wages and general working-expenses, buildings, purchase of stock, and provision for visitors ... ... ... 1,300 Grants— 69 Contribution towards expenses of delegate to World's Poultry Congress ... ... 25 70 Contributions to cost of egg-laying competitions at Auckland and Christchurch ... ... I 200 71 Printing Poultry Conference report ... ... I 10 72 Inspection of dairies: Purchase of apparatus ... 50 73 Inspection of manure-sterilizing (Australia and i India) : Labour, travelling, office, and other expenses (part recoverable) ... ... ... 600 74 Inspection of meat ... ... ... 600 75 Law-costs ... ... ... 50 76 Poultry Experimental Station (Wallaceville) equipment and working-expenses (partly recoverable) 1,250 77 | Quarantine - stations, Auckland, Wellington, and Lyttelton (partly recoverable) ... ... 2,150 78 | Telephone services (including extensions, maintenance, rent, and calls) ... ... ... 1,150 79 Transfer and removal expenses ... ... 700 80 Transit expenses of veterinarians from England and from Australia ... ... 250 81 i Travelling allowances and expenses ... ... 20,000 82 Veterinary Laboratory : W ages and general workingexpenses, land and buildings, and investigation of diseases ... ... ... 1,000