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STATEMENT in Detail of the EXPENDITURE for MISCELLANEOUS SERVICES— contd.

PUBLIC ACCOUNTS, 1897-98.

CLASS IV.-MINISTER OP JUSTICE:— Vote No. 30 —Miscellaneous Services :— Item 1—Purchase of reports and treatises for Crown Law Office Item 2—Payment to Survey Department for lithographing, preparation of plans, &c. Item 3—Purchase of Courthouse site, Eketahuna Item 4—Contingencies,— Advertising, books, and publications Counsels' fees, defending murder charges Courthouse, Port Waikato, In settlement of lease of Extra clerks and temporary officers Pees paid to hangman Fidelity guarantee premiums Fuel, light, and water .. Interpreting Patent-fees to agents for work done Sanitary requirements and sweeping chimnejs Sundry payments Typewriting, copying, &c. Typewriters and mimeographs Telephone-exchange connections Travelling-allowances and -expenses of officers of the department £ s. a. £ s. d. £ s. d. 58 9 9 33 16 11 31 6 11 50 0 0 793 2 5 50 0 0 169 0 10 684 13 5 138 10 8 47 0 0 61 4 5 692 10 3 74 6 0 60 4 6 286 4 11 297 0 11 100 0 0 . . 3,293 13 5 126 12 2 Total net expenditure, Vote No. 30 £3,749 4 1 CLASS V.—POSTMASTER-GENERAL :— Vote No. 37 —Miscellaneous Sebvices :— Item 1—Stationery, &c. Item 2—Special allowance to telegraph messengers Item 3 —Gas and water Item i —Telephone-fees to non-permanent officers Item 5—Scientific and technical instruction Item 6 —To make good robbery at Tikokino Post-office Item 7 —Ditto at Newmarket Post-office Item 8 —Defalcation by an officer now deceased Item 9—Expenses incurred to recover mails from wreck of "Tasmania" .. Item 10 —Office expenses, fuel, travelling-expenses of Telegraphists and Contingencies— Advertising and printing Carriage of private bags Cleaning and scavenging Money-order and Savings-bank fees Allowances (interest, tellers, R.T.P.O., house, forage, &e.) .. Postal Inspectors, travelling-expenses Lighting and fuel (gas excepted) Overtime Parcels-post expenses .. Repairs, fittings, new buildings, &c. Sundries Travelling- and relieving-expenses Uniforms Temporary officers (excluding Linemen) Poundage paid.. I 131 11 3 271 11 10 1,908 7 0 427 2 10 •2,174 13 5 868 11 6 1,837 0 4 1,166 14 8 2,019 15 2 2,029 11 2 2,609 5 7 4,306 14 2 875 11 10 2,180 16 7 1,760 8 8 6,114 9 8 660 0 0 2,555 4 6 6,945 17 10 18 1 U 4 10 279 19 8 559 19 0 24,073 16 0 Total net expenditure, Vote No. 37 £41,201 19 7 CLASS VI.—COMMISSIONER OF CUSTOMS :— Vote No. 39—Customs, Miscellaneous Services :— Item 1—Quarantine-keepers, Auckland, Wellington, and Port Chalmers—Salaries, 1st April, 1897, to 31st March, 1898 .. Less recoveries 302 2 0 36 0 0 Item 2—Quarantine Stations—Contingencies 266 2 0 165 16 1 I Item 3—Bonus on exportation of canned and cured fish Item 4—Freight on samples forwarded to London Chamber of Commerce Refund of Customs duty on, - Item 5—Memorial to late Dr. Stuart Item 6—Memorial statue to the late John Ballance Item 7 —Memorial to late Peter Cunningham Item 8—Statue of Bishop Harper, Christchurch .. Item 9 —Statue of Her Majesty the Queen, Auckland Item 10—Monument to the victims of the Brunner coalmine disaster, Stillwater Item 11—Tobacco stalks destroyed 431 18 1 727 4 10 3 9 0 . ■ 17 5 0 16 15 0 75 15 0 12' 8 0 Carried forward 122 8 0 162 11 11