B.—l [PT. I].

YEAR ENDING 31 MARCH, 1943.

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE— continued.

(a) The problems of control necessitate occasional assistance from private enterprise. (6) Counties were unable to fully utilize their allocations, a combination of labour and material shortages. (c) Rationing of superphosphate automatically reduced rail tonnages (d) Labour shortages are expected to have a reducing effect on the herds within the plan ; also, as the organizations have been economical they have a measure of financial stability which made it practical for them to volunteer to absorb costs which will be inevitable if the number of cows tested twice or more exceed 200,000 during the 1.942-43 season. (e) Some poisoning arrangements have been made as the result of successful experiments on a small scale during the past year. () (/) Any costs arising from these three subsidies will be met from " War Expenses Account as from Ist April, 1942.

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Number 1941-42 "' 1Vraons - VOTE—AGRICULTURE— continued. 1942-43. , H.42 43 1941-42 Subdivision No. VIII.—Miscellaneous Services: Advances, Voted.. Expended. Grants, Guarantees, Subsidies, &c. ' ! CHARGES FOE AND INCIDENTAL TO — £ £ £ Assistance to pig industry Blackberry, bonus for extermination of (£10,000), on account 8,200 6,700 8,159 Bursaries and fares from and to New Zealand: Veterinary 5 5 students at Sydney and United Kingdom .. .. 500 1,250 610 Compassionate allowance to widow of late G. B. Melrose, Inspector of Stock.. .. .. .. • • 100 Compensation under the Workers' Compensation Act, and medical expenses of officers injured in course of duty 100 100 20 Departmental exhibits at shows .. •• •• 500 1,500 1,227 Executive Commission of Agriculture : Salaries, travelling, and other expenses of the Commission '.. .. 3,400 4,000 3,o90 Expenses of members of the Council of Primary Production, and expenses incidental to control of Primary Industries 1,800 1,000 (a) 634 Grants — t Dargaville Demonstration Farm .. .. • • < 250 250 250 Egg-laying Competition organizations .. • • 200 200 200 Institute of Horticulture .. .. •■ •• 100 100 100 Stratford Demonstration Farm .. .. • • 200 200 200 Widows or dependants equivalent to leave due to officers (deceased) 100 200 63 Winton Experimental Farm .. .. .. 200 200 200 Linen flax : Advances to growers, also other development and manufacturing equipment and incidentals .'. 200 .400 357 Noxious weeds, eradication of, and expenses incidental thereto (partly recoverable) .. ... ■■ 35,000 55,000 (b) 24,764 Onion marketing : Expenses of Advisory Committee and general costs relative to onion purchases .. .. 100 100 88 Purchase of grass-seed, freight, storage, blending, &c, regrassing flooded areas, Hawke's Bay (part recoverable) 5 5 Rail freight concessions on fodder and live-stock owing to feed shortage from drought or flood conditions : also free cartage for certain fodder .. .. . ■ 100 100 Railways — Carriage of lime for bona fide farmers .. •• 202,000 200,000 201,916 Portion of freight rates on fertilizers .. .. .. 140,143 197,500 (c) 183 , 915 Portion of freight rates on farm-produce .. •• 67,000 65,000 67,085 Refund of fees in connection with various Acts .... 10 50 3 Subsidies — Cow-testing organizations : Payment to Dairy Board in respect of herd-improvement plan .. .. .. 10,000 15,000 (a!) 14,941 Destruction of kea 200 300 136 Destruction of wild pigs and other incidental expenses .. 950 750 (e) 661 Grants — International Seed-testing Association .. • • • • 20 Royal Agricultural Society .. .. •• •• 250 250 Purchase of fencing-materials, freight, storage, lifting posts, &c, flooded area, Hawke's Bay (part recoverable) .. • • 5 Subsidies — Butter-boxes, manufacture of .. •■ ■■ (/) 22,000 22,401 On raw materials used in manufacture of superphosphate ; and freight contribution on superphosphate transferred mainly from South Island to North Island .. .. (/) 980,000 m >jf d Sodiun^ chlorate and Atlacide .. .. •■ (/) 10,000 713