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Appropriations for General Government Services.

CLASS III.—POSTAL AND TELEGE. .PHIC— conk iued. Item. 18 6-77. POSTAL DEPAKTMENT— continued. £ s. d. £ s. d. 10 11 .12 13 11 15 L6 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 VOTE No. 26— continued. Conveyance of Mails bt Sea. Contingencies, Bonuses, Gratuities .... Subsidy to Chatham Islands Service Interprovincial Services Steam Service, West Coast, Middle Island ... Steam Service, East Coast, North Island ... Steam Service, Wellington and Kaikoura ... Steam Service Subsidy for Blind Bay San Francisco Service Bonus, &c.,San Francisco Service Suez Service Intercolonial Service Steam Service to Fiji Mail Agents and Travelling Allowance Subsidies (6 months) for mail services by sea along the coast of Auckland ... 2,000 0 0 150 0 0 1,500 0 0 4,000 0 0 2,200 0 0 400 0 0 180 0 0 45,000 0 0 1,000 0 0 8,000 0 0 5,000 0 0 2,500 0 0 1,750 0 0 1,500 0 0 75,180 0 0 84 25 86 27 28 29 30 31 32 88 31 86 36 Auckland. Chief Postmaster Chief Clerk 2 Clerks, at £235 ... Money Order Clerk... 4 Clerks, 1 at £225,1 at £200, 1 at £170, and 1 at £120 4 Clerks, 1 at £155,1 at £150,1 at £140, and 1 at £120 3 Cadets, 1 at £100, 2 at £90 ... 5 Letter Carriers, 1 at £130, 2 at £120, 2 at £115 ... Messenger Assistant Messenger Postmaster, Gisborne Cadet, Gisborne Postmaster and Shipping Officer, Onehunga (also Telegraphist £140) Cadet Messenger, Hamilton (also Telegraph £36)... Cadet, Tauranga ... ... ..? 146 Country Postmasters Postmaster, Thames Clerk, Thames Cadet 2 Letter Carriers, 1 at £115,1 at £110 ... Messenger Letter Carrier, Coromandel 450 0 0 300 0 0 470 0 0 250 0 0 715 0 0 565 0 0 280 0 0 600 0 0 120 0 C 75 0 0 200 0 0 60 0 0 37 38 89 10 41 42 43 14 45 ■16 75 0 0 60 0 0 15 0 0 60 0 0 1,450 0 0 325 0 0 135 0 0 90 0 0 225 0 0 115 0 0 110 0 0 6,745 0 0 ■17 ■IS 49 50 Tabastaex Chief Postmaster Assistant Cadet 12 Country Postmasters 300 130 75 110 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 615 0 51 52 ,53 Wellington. Chief Postmaster Chief Clerk Money Order Clerk... 400 300 215 0 0 0 0 0 0 6