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CLASS II.-COLONIAL SECRETARY'S DEPARTMENT—continued.

Appropriations for Consolidated Fund Services.

Item. 18 7-98. MINISTERS' SECRETARIES. 1897-98. Total number of officers ... 9 VOTE No. 7. Salaries— 1 Secretary to Cabinet (also Clerk of Executive Council £50) 2 8 Private Secretaries to Ministers at £25 each ... £ 1 450 200 2 Total—Vote No. 7 65i MESSENGERS AND OFFICE-KEEPERS. 2 1897-98. Total number of officers 38 VOTE No. 8. 1 Salaries— Messengers — Chief Messenger and Housekeeper (also Fire Inspector £50) 17 Messengers: 1 at £180, 1 at £130, 7 at £120, 2 at 6s. 6d. per diem, 6 at 6s. per diem 5 Night-watchmen: 4 at 7s. 6d. per diem, 1 at 6s. per diem (7 months) Office-keepers, Sfc. — » Custodian £100, and Housekeeper £50, Government House, Auckland t Auckland—1 at £121, 1 at £104 i New Plymouth i Gisborne ! Nelson—Office-keeper £150, Messenger £50 Blenheim Christchurch—2 Office-keepers: 1 at £52, 1 at 4s. per diem 1 Watchman at 6s. 6d. per diem Dunedin—Office-keeper £110, Office-cleaner £104, and Watchman £45 225 2,044 612 150 225 75 30 200 120 3 4 5 0 7 8 125 119 259 Total—Vote No. 8 ... ... - 4,184 ELECTORAL DEPARTMENT. 1897-98. Total number of officers 19 VOTE No. 9. Salaries— For payment of Registrars who do not hold other! appointments in the Civil Service 600 2 3 4 5 Other Charges— Expenses of General Election ... Expenses under Election Petitions Act Expenses under " The Awarua Seat Inquiry Act, 1897" Expenses of printing Rolls, Advertising, Elections, and Contingencies 850 100 116 2,500 Total—Vote No. 9 ... ... — 3,566 4,166 AUDIT OFFICE. 1897-98. Total number of officers 24 VOTE No. 10. Salaries— Chief Clerk 11 Clerks: 2 at £275, 1 at £250, 1 at £235, 3 at £210 1 at £180, 1 at £130,1 (Shorthand-and Type-writer) at £82, 1 (extra) at 15s. per diem Cadet Clerk, Audit of Local Bodies, &c. 350 2,291 75 350 3,066