FOREIGN OFFICE AND BOARD OF TRADE.

CLASS II,

10

DEPARTMENT OF OVERSEAS TRADE.
(DEVELOPMENT AND INTELLIGENCE.)

I. SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATE of the Amount required. in the Year ending 31 March 1926 to defray the Salaries and Expenses of the DEPARTMENT OF OVERSEAS TRADE.

Thirty-two Thousand Five Hundred Pounds.

II. SUBHEADS under which this Vote will be accounted for by the DEPARTMENT OF OVERSEAS TRADE.

F.1.-BRITISH INDUSTRIES FAIR

Provision is made for publicity on a larger scale (£25,000)
than was contemplated when the original Estimate, in
which a sum of £5,000 was included for advertising, was
framed

...

...

£

20,000

...

7,500

F.6.-DUNEDIN EXHIBITION—

The total expenditure in connection with the participation
of His Majesty's Government in this exhibition was
originally estimated to amount to £20,000 of which
£2,000 would fall to be provided in 1926-27. It is now
estimated that the total expenditure will amount to
£30,000 of which £4,500 will fall to be provided in
1926-27. A further sum of £7,500 is accordingly re-
quired

...

...

EXPORTS CREDITS DEPARTMENT.*

G.1.-SALARIES, WAGES AND ALLOWANCES—
Increased provision is required to cover the cost of
additional staff temporarily engaged in connection with
the administration of the Export Credits Scheme...

G.2.-TRAVELLING AND INCIDENTAL EXPENSESAdditional provision is required to meet increased bank and legal charges

...

...

H.-APPROPRIATIONS IN AID

...

500

500

9,000

CLASS II.

13

MINES DEPARTMENT OF THE BOARD OF TRADE.

I. SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATE of the Amount required in the Year ending 31 March 1926 to pay the Salaries and Expenses of the MINES DEPARTMENT OF THE BOARD OF TRADE.

Sixteen Thousand Seven Hundred and Fifty-seven Pounds.

II. SUBHEADS under which this Vote will be accounted for by the MINES DEPARTMENT OF THE BOARD OF TRADE.

A-SALARIES, WAGES AND ALLOWANCES-

Further provision is required for staff employed on
statistical and accounting work in connection with the
Royal Commission on the Coal Industry, the Coal
Mining Industry Subvention and the preparation of a
revised Catalogue of Abandoned Mines

B.-TRAVELLING AND INCIDENTAL EXPENSESTravelling, etc., expenses of staff engaged on investigations in connection with the Coal Mining Industry Subvention and upon the preparation of the revised Catalogue of Abandoned Mines

...

E.E.-EMPLOYMENT OF FIRMS OF ACCOUNTANTS ON
AUDITS IN CONNECTION WITH THE COAL
MINING INDUSTRY SUBVENTION—

Provision is made for the payment of fees on the normal
scale to firms of Accountants employed by the Depart-
ment to audit the returns and figures, furnished by the
Colliery Companies, on which the amount payable under
the Subvention is computed

12,500

I. SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATE of the Amount required in the Year ending 31 March 1926 to pay the Salaries and Expenses of the MINISTRY OF AGRICULTURE AND FISHERIES, including a Subsidy on Sugar and Molasses manufactured from Beet grown in Great Britain, Expenses under the Agricultural Wages (Regulation) Act, 1924, Loans to Agricultural Co-operative Societies, Grants for Agricultural Education and Research, Grants for eradication. of Tuberculosis in Cattle (15 & 16 Geo. 5, c. 63), Grants for Land Drainage, a Grant in Aid of the Small Holdings Account, and certain other Grants in Aid; and of the ROYAL BOTANIC GARDENS, KEW.

Three Hundred and Three Thousand Pounds.

II. SUBHEADS under which this Vote will be accounted for by the MINISTRY OF AGRICULTURE AND FISHERIES.