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(2.) Amount paid for Extra Clerical Assistance last Session (Parliamentary). Extra Clerks — £ s. d. Legislative Council ... ... ... ... ... 144 0 0 House of Eepresentatives ... ... ... ... 804 9 6 Copies of notes, re Chemis ... ... ... ... ... 4 14 6 £953 4 0 (3.) Amount paid for reporting Boyal Commissions or Special Commissions during the last Three Years. £ s. d. 1. Ell Commission ... ... ... ... ... 25 0 0 2. Fryday Commission ... ... ... ... ... 19 10 0 3. J. K. Johnson Special Commission ... ... ... 779 4. Native Land Laws Commission ... ... ... ... 396 16 5 5. Polhill Gully Commission ... ... ... ... 38 15 0 6. Public Trust Office Commission ... ... ... ... 455 11 0 7. Intercolonial Stock Conference ... ... ... ... 30 5 0 8. Eeporting Labour Conference ... ... ... ... 47 9 0 9. Eeporting Premier's speeches ... ... ... ... 9 16 6 10. Shelley Bay Inquiry ... ... ... ... ... 8 0 0 11. Dunedin Hospital Inquiry ... ... ... ... 218 6 0 12. Auckland Hospital Inquiry ... ... ... ... 82 18 0 13. Inquiry re death of Ah Ching ... ... ... ... 25 4 0 14. Grey Valley Commission... ... ... ... ... 162 0 0 '15. Sweating Commission ... ... ... ... ... 114 1 0 16. Deaf-mute School Inquiry ... ... ... ... 7 11 0 17. Caversham Industrial School Inquiry ... ... ... 67 8 0 £1,715 18 8 (4.) Amount paid for Native Interpreting during last Becess. £ s. d. Eemuneration of interpreters temporarily employed ... ... 395 19 4* Travelling-expenses of interpreters temporarily employed ... 32 13 10 Salaries of permanent officers acting as clerks and interpreters, Native Land Court ... ... ... ... ... 510 0 0 Travelling - expenses of permanent officers acting as clerks and interpreters, Native Land Court ... ... ... ... 380 10 10 £1,319 4 0 * A large part of this has been spent in the Native Land Court at Gisborne, but there is now a salaried inter' preter attached to that Court. The employment is practically permanent in Native Land Courts— i.e., it is continuous. E. J. Collins, 4th September, 1893. Accountant to the Treasury.

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