B—7 [PT. I]

YEAR ENDING 31 MARCH, 1947

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE —continued

(a) Certain old cars should be replaced. In the meantime heavy upkeep costs are unavoidable. (b) Immediate action is necessary in the event of-any outbreaks of citrus canker. (c) Officers travelling frequently, 55. Allowances, £2,808 ; expenses, £1,328; motor hire, £1,637 ; motor-mileage, £1,670. d) Engraving Loder Cup, Bs. 5d.; wine acquired for comparative purposes, £2 15s. 3d.; expenses of four applicants for position of Horticulturist, £5 16s. 4d. : total, £9.

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Y OTE—AGRICULTURE —continued 1945--46. 1946-47. Subdivision No. Ill—Horticulture Division — continued Voted. Expended. Other Charges for and incidental to — £ £ £ Apiary industry— Part-time Apiary Instructors 500 500 432 Purchase of beekeeping requisites, material for experiments, &c. .. 50 50 28 Bicycles and motors — Maintenance and running-costs and State Fire accident-indemnification costs 1,500 800 (a) 1,570 Purchase of .. 1,200 700 455 Fruit industry— Abandoned orchards : wages and expenses cutting-out 50 50 Cool-storage and horticultural experiments 30 30 11 Control of citrus canker: wages and expenses, compensation, &c. (6) 500 500 38 Control of fireblight disease 10 10 Cost of passages of Technical Officers from overseas 400 600 537 Frost-fighting experiments: expenditure connected with purchase, installation of plant, &c. 10 10 Fumigation and destruction of diseased fruit (recoverable) 200 100 21 Orchard requisites, &c... 225 125 126 Rural field cadetship, expenses incidental to 300 500 60 Grant towards expenses of Advisory Committee re market-gardening 200 200 106 Horticultural Station, Te Kauwhata : wages and general working-expenses, purchase of stock, grapes, equipment, maintenance of buildings, &c. (recoverable) 27,400 24,000 23,008 Office expenses 50 50 21 Payments to Post and Telegraph Department 1,135 1,135 1,110 Tobacco industry: material and apparatus for experiments 10 10 Transfer and removal expenses 800 800 699 Travelling allowances and expenses (part recoverable) 8,500 8,000 (c) 7,443 Contingencies 10 20 (d)9 43,080 38,190 35,674 Total—Subdivision No. Ill 81,020 74,797 70,539