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SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATES, 1947-48

DEPARTMENT OF SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL RESEARCH—continued

REMARKS (a) £6,069 provided on main estimates. (b) £1,500 provided on main estimates. Additional grant required to cover increasing costs. (c) Grant towards .cost of expedition going to the Snares Islands, south of New Zealand, to study bird, animal, and marine life on the islands. (d) £11,600 provided on main estimates. (e) £1,390 provided on main estimates. (/) £240 provided on main estimates. (g) £2,560 provided on main estimates. Further amount of £lOO required to meet increased tuition fees of scholar at the College of Aeronautics. (h) Council has an unexpended balance from last year's grant in hand. Full amount provided on main estimates is therefore not required to meet programme of research approved by the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research. On Main On Sopple(i) Amount of £30,620 is made up as follows : Estimates. E™imates. Total. £ £ £ Grants .. .. .. .. .. 47,768 10,465 58,238 Biometric Section .. .. .. 3,267 180 3,447 Information Bureau .. .. .. 11,430 850 12,280 Scholarships .. .. .. .. 2,560 100 2,660 Miscellaneous .. .. .. .. 1,520 1,415 .2,935 Scientific liaison services .. .. .. 7,500 1,510 9,010 Payment of increased salaries and costs due to Arbitration Court pronouncement and removal of subsidies .. .. .. .. 16,100 16,100 £74,045 £30,620 £104*665 (j) £5O provided on main estimates. (k) £5lO provided on main estimates. {I) £B6O provided on main estimates.

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