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PAPEES RELATING TO NEW

D.— STATEMENT OF THE IXPENDITURE of the postal service of SERVICE. 1859. 18G0. 1 General Government > Contributions to Main Line Subsidies—Inter-Colonial ,, —Inter-Provincial Salaries—Postmaster-General's Department Contingencies £ s. D. 6,089 17 4 12,000 0 0 5,284 9 0 160 0 0 1,517 10 7 £ s. d. 8,089 17 i 16,466 13 4 3,058 G 8 215 12 6 1,220 3 0 Auckland .. .. > Salaries (including Country Postmasters) .. Conveyance of Inland Mails Contingencies 1,293 6 8 639 2 8 408 13 11 1,516 4 2 773 17 0 571 14 6 Taranaki .. .. \ Salaries (including Country Postmasters) .. Conveyance of Inland Mails .. Contingencies 188 11 8 0 0 0 47 8 3 1G3 6 8 0 0 0 52 11 1 Wellington .. .. [■ Salaries (including Country Postmasters) .. Conveyance of Inland Mails Contingencies 719 19 11 116 5 0 160 13 7 879 2 11 192 11 1 99 8 7 Hawke's Bay .. V Salaries (including Country Postmasters) .. Conveyance of Inland Mails .. Contingencies 15 0 0 0 0 0 250 10 8 2C3 0 0 51G 7 8 106 19 3 Nelson .. .. > Salaries (including Country Postmasters) .. Conveyance of Inland .Mails Contingencies 814 18 0 480 1 4 326 6 1 780 13 7 338 G 0 338 18 3 Marlborough .. > Salaries (including Country Postmasters) .. Conveyance of Inland Mails Contingencies 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 36 0 0 0 0 0 4 15 10 Canterbury .. .. >• Salaries (including Country Postmasters) .. Conveyance of Inland Mails Contingencies 744 1 8 1,091 2 6 276 19 1 899 0 0 1,286 16 6 246 10 11 Otago .. .. y Salaries (including Country Postmasters) .. Conveyance of Inland Mails Contingencies 250 2 9 841 1 6 182 15 7 304 3 4 955 10 0 301 3 10 Southland .. .. v Salaries (including Country Postmasters) .. Conveyance of Inland Mails Contingencies 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Total expense of year 33,898 17 9 39,627 14 0 Centesimal rate of increase on year next preceding 16.9 per cent. Increase from 1859 to 1864, from £33,898 17s. 9d. to £147,577 3s. Gd., or 335.34 per eent. Proportion of Revenue to Expenditure in 1859 as 1 to 4.3277. „ „ „ in 18G4 as 1 to 3.755. * The details of the years 1859-62 under this item are estimated approximately from the account rendered hy the N.B.—The Contribution to Main Line has not been wholly paid, but the amounts given above show the payments