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YEAR ENDING 31 MARCH, 1947

DEPARTMENT OF SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL RESEARCH —continued

{a) Increase accounted for mainly by following new projects. Radio meteorological investigation" in Canterbury, £23,000 (£ll,OOO recoverable from United Kingdom Government); production of micro-wave height finders for Meteorological Office, £21,000 (all recoverable). {b) Cost of sending an officer to study methods in use in Standards Laboratories in England, United States of America, and Australia. (c) Overseas orders have been slow in coming to charge. Provision has been made in 1946-47 to meet outstanding claims. (d) Replacement of old truck, £400; alterations and running-costs of eleven trucks engaged on Canterbury project, £2,675. (e) Underspent owing to cessation of munitions programme. {f) Purchase of and alterations to buildings for housing Canterbury project. (g) Number of officers, 40. Motor hire, £6O; mileage-allowances, £2O; travelling-allowances, £763 ; travelling-expenses, £1,583.

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VOTE—SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL RESEARCH —continued 1946-47. Subdivision No. VII —Dominion Physical Voted. Expended. Laboratory (Number of officers : 1946-47, 152 ; £ £ £ 1945-46, 97) Salaries — Other Salaries 152 (£95 to £1,000) {a) 50,361 32,676 33,493 Other Charges for and incidental to — V Expenses of officers overseas (6) 1,200 Furniture and fittings, purchase of 1,580 500 731 Instruments, apparatus, equipment, and stores, purchase of (a) 55,808 25,407 (c) 18,088 Maintenance and operating expenses of laboratories, &c. .. (a) 2,550 950 1,944 Motor-vehicles : purchase, repairs, and maintenance (including fees and runningexpenses) {d) 3,475 640 407 Office expenses 2,780 2,150 2,776 Overtime and meal allowances 1,800 4,700 (e) 2,780 Payments to Post and Telegraph Department 450 496 442 Permanent improvements, including buildings, roading, fencing, &c. (/) 7,900 400 276 Printing and stationery 500 540 837 Travelling allowances and expenses 2,400 2,900 (g) 2,426 Wages 9,900 22,273 (e) 17,606 Contingencies 10 10 (Recoveries, £71,150) 90,353 60,966 48,313 Total —Subdivision No. VII (a)140,714 93,642 . (e) 81,806