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YEAR ENDING 31 MARCH, 1947

DEPARTMENT OF SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL RESEARCH—continued

:(a) It proved impossible last year to make the proposed aerial surveys. ■(b) An officer of the Entomology Division stationed at Adelaide is investigating the possibility of securing parasites to attack the grass-grub, whilst two officers of the Agronomy Division, recently released from the Armed Services in England, are visiting overseas research stations before returning to New Zealand. <(c) Refund of portion of expenses incurred by Imperial Institute of Entomology for work on parasites of New Zealand insect pests. Last year £5OO was paid from Unauthorized Account. ■(d) Increase required to meet costs of equipping new research units —e.g., Atomic Physics Section, £4,000; Industrial Psychology Division, £150; Grasslands Sub-station at Gore, £1,660; Grass Grub Research, £1,100; Anti-biotics Unit (Plant Chemistry Laboratory), £4,100 — and to meet outstanding overseas orders expected to come to charge. <(e) Provision required for operating expenses of new research activities (see (d)). (J) Vehicles are required by the new fruit research orchard in Otago, the Plant Research Bureau, and the Soil Bureau. (g) Provision for temperature and humidity controlled rooms for Building Research, £700; worker's accommodation at Dairy Research Institute, £240 ; purchase of Stone Fruit Research Orchard in Otago, £3,450 (provided in 1945-46 but not used); improvements at Appleby Research Orchard, £265 ; installation of Industrial Psychology Division, £320 ; Grasslands Sub-stations, £3,600 ; glasshouses, &c., £2,100 ; implement-shed, Wheat Research Institute, £6OO. (h) Printing of Industrial Psychology Division's Bulletin, £240; monograph on grass-grub, £450 ; completion of North Island Soil Map, £2,200 ; a bulletin on soils of Whangarei County, £500; and the Wheat Review, £220. >(i) Rental of new experimental areas. (j) Provision by the Manufacturers' Research Committee for establishment of new research associations. {k) Number of officers, 170. Motor hire, £4OQ; mileage-allowances, £2,000; . travelling-allowances, £4,100; travelling-expenses, £3,395.

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VOTE—SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL 1945-4R. RESEARCH—continued 1946-47. ■Subdivision No. II—Research Investigations—ctd. Voted. Expended. Other Charges for and incidental to — £ ■ £ £ Air mapping 200 825 (a) Expenses of officers overseas (6) 1,240 2,585 2,348 Furniture and fittings, purchase of 1,475 1,258 1,181 Insect parasites (c) 900 Instruments, apparatus, equipment, and laboratory stores, purchase of .. (d) 36,787 22,229 19,558 Maintenance and operating expenses of laboratories, experimental areas, factories, &c. (e) 26,302 15,958 19,328 Motor-vehicles: purchases, repairs, maintenance, license fees, and running-expenses (/) 2,920 5,220 2,010 Office expenses (e) 6,230 5,254 5,173 Overtime and meal allowances 645 995 636 Payments to Post and Telegraph Department (e) 2,186 1,610 1,615 Permanent improvements, including buildings, roading, fencing, &c. (g) 14,612 12,956 (9) 3,300 , Printing and stationery 765 537s 904 Printing of bulletins and maps (Ji) 3,920 3,615 1,450 Rent and rates (i) 2,182 2,070 1,366 ■Servicing industry and contributions to new research associations (J) 3 > 700 1,500 17 Travelling allowances and expenses 11,580 8,898 (h) 9,895 Wages 27,466 23,940 23,516