B—7 [PT. I]

DETAILS OF ESTIMATES FOR THE

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE—continued

(«) Expenditure previously charged to War Expenses Account. (&)'Now included in vote Stabilization. See page 40.

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1945-4R. VOTE—AGRICULTURE—continued 1946-47. Voted. Expended. Subdivision No. VIII —Miscellaneous Services: Advances, Grants, Guarantees, Subsidies, dc. — £ £ £ continued Charges for and incidental to —continued Grants to District Councils of Primary Production (a) 1,000 Grants — ' Dargaville Demonstration Farm 500 250 25a Institute of Horticulture 200 200 20O Veterinary School, Sydney 3,000 Widows or dependants, including equivalent to leave due to officers (deceased) .. 200 200 724 Winton Experimental Farm 200 200 2QO Military defaulters' farm (a) 400 Nassella tussock: expenses incidental to C 7W ' / inspection .. .. 1,500 1,275 Noxious weeds, eradication of, and expenses incidental thereto (partly recoverable) 28,000 28,000 25,365 Onion marketing: expenses of Advisory Committee, &c. 100 100 97 Rabbits, destruction of, by way of grants to Rabbit Boards and to a Rabbit-skins Committee 12,000 15,000 6 ,883 Rail freight concessions on fodder and livestock owing to feed shortage from drought or flood conditions ; also free cartage for certain fodder 100 1,500 365 Railways — Carriage of lime for bona fide farmers (b) 240,000 228,361 Portion of freight rates on fertilizers (6) 180,000 192,048 Portion of freight rates on farm-produce .. (P) 80,000 83,647 Refund of fees in connection with various Acts 15 10 7 Serpentine development — North Island (a) 16,000 South Island (a) 1,800 Services' vegetable production (a) 14,500 Subsidies— Cow-testing organizations: payment to Dairy : Board in respect of herdimprovement plan 15,000 15,000 14.474 Destruction of kea 600 500 536 Destruction of wild pigs and other incidental expenses 5,500 2,500 2,590 Table Poultry Plant, Upper Hutt (a) 850