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DETAILS OF ESTIMATES FOR THE

DEPARTMENT OF SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL RESEARCH—continued

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1946-47. 1945-46. VOTE—SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL Voted. Expended. RESEARCH—continued £ £ £ Subdivision No. VIII —Grants and Miscellaneous Services —continued Other Charges for and incidental to — continued Grants to research and allied institutions —continued Royal Society of New Zealand(under section 7, Finance Act, 1925, and Royal Society of New Zealand Act, 1933) 750 750 750 Unspecified grants 800 500 600 Instruments, apparatus, equipment, laboratory, and workshop stores, purchase of .. 32,525 450 27 Maintenance and operating expenses of laboratories, observatories, experimental areas, &c. 1,225 Motor - vehicles : purchase, repairs and running expenses 590 New Zealand Journal of Science and Technology 2,000 2,300 2,616 Office expenses 1,340 555 643 Overtime and meal allowances 225 50 26 Payments to Post and Telegraph Department 465 Permanent improvements, including buildings, roading, fencing, &c. .. (a) 1,900 Printing and stationery .. .. . .-v 175 Printing of bulletins and maps 200 150 453 Removal expenses of Radio Development Laboratory .. .. .. (b) 350 Rent and rates 1,730 . . Research scolarships (c) 1,800 5 Travelling allowances and expenses 705 50 (d) 151 Wages 3,850 Contingencies 1 1 Fare to England of fiancee of Agricultural specialist 125 119 Payment of monetary equivalent of leave due to deceased officers 50 Preparatory w'ork in post-war developments 100 yXVtJUU V j 80,122 37,106 36,063 Total —Subdivision No. VIII e) 104,151 44,076 42,949