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Appropriations for Consolidated Fund Services

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE—continued.

Number Persons. VOTE No. 25.—AGRICULTURE-continued. 1936-37. 1936-37. Subdivision No. III. —Horticulture Division—continued. £ £ Otheb Charges for and incidental to —continued. . 62 Horticultural Station, Te Kauwhata : Wages and general working-expenses, purchase of stock, &c. (recoverable) .. 5,000 63 Law-costs . . . . .. . . . . . . 15 64 Telephone services (including installation, extensions, maintenance, rent, and calls) . . . . .. 250 65 Tobacco Industry : Material and apparatus for experiments 100 66 Transfer and removal expenses . . . . .. 200 67 Travelling allowances and expenses (part recoverable) .. 4,425 68 Contingencies, including unforeseen expenditure incidental to the Horticulture Division items of the division .. 10 Estimated credits-in-aid under Section 51 of the Public Revenues Act, 1926 (see end of vote) — £ Collection of fireblight tax .. .. 10 Collection of orchard-tax .. .. 50 Farm areas .. .. .. .. 6,000 Fumigation and destruction of fruit .. 75 Travelling-expenses .. .. . . 500 6,635 11,630 Total—Subdivision No. Ill .. .. 30 485 Subdivision No. IV. —Dairy Division. 69 Salaries— Professional Division. Class A— £ 1 at £800 (9 months), £731 (3 months), (Director) 78.3 2 | 1 at £665 (9 months), £608 (3 months) .. 651 I Class B— ] 434 1 ! 1 at £515 (9 months), £471 (3 months) .. '.504 Clerical Division. Class IV— 1 1 at £425 (9 months), £389 (3 months) 416 Class V — 1 1 at £380 (9 months), £347 (3 months) .. 372 Class VI — 3 3 at £335 (9 months). £306 (3 months) 983 Class VII — 3 at £295 (9 months), £270 (3 months) . . 866 1 at £275 (9 months), £251 (2 months), £241 (1 month) . . . . . . . . 268 1 at £255 (9 months), £241 (3 months) .. 252 1 at £230 (3 months), £210 (6 months), £203 (3 months) . . . . .. . . 21.3 1 at £210 (9 months), £203 (2 months), £183 (1 month) .. .. .. .. 207 ] at £135 (6 months), £115 (3 months), £111 (3 months) .. . . . . . . 124 9 1 at £95 (4 months), £80 (5 months), £77 (3 months) . . . . . , . . 84 2,014 Cadets'lodging-allowances .. .. .. .. 31 General Division. 4 at £590 (9 months), £539 (3 months) .. .. 2,309 1 at £590 (6 months), £539 (3 months) . . . . 430 1 at £565 (6 months), £535 (3 months), £489 (3 months) . . .. . . ., 539