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

PUBLIC ACCOUNTS, 1898-99

£ s. d. £ s. a. £ s. a. Brought forward 797 13 5 1LASS IV.—MINISTER OF JUSTICE— continued. Vote No. 30—Miscellaneous Services — continued. Item 3—Contribution towards costs of defendant in case Ah Chun v. Stratford .. .. • • ... Item 4—Compensation to Major Gudgeon on leaving Civil Service to take up position of Resident Agent, Rarotonga Item 5—Expenses of Urewera Commission — Travelling allowance and expenses Wages of Natives Item 6 —Contingencies,— Advertising, books, and publications Binding patent specifications Clerical assistance, copying, &c. .. Execution of criminals Fuel, light, and water Fees to Patent Agents Interpreting Law-costs Medical examination of convict Clemens Postmaster, Motueka, for acting as Clerk of Court Premiums and fidelity guarantees Sanitary requirements Sundry payments under £5 Subscriptions to Telephone Exchange Travelling allowances and expenses of officers Typewriters, mimeographs, and cyclostyles 109 15 2 11 010 659 17 10 96 19 6 989 17 5 45 7 6 132 14 3 61 5 6 10 10 0 10 0 0 179 10 7 177 7 7 172 9 8 278 1 5 157 13 10 111 10 8 49 11 0 11 5 0 120 0 0 450 0 0 60 16 0 3,204 1 9 Total net exriimditure, Vote No. 30 £4,632 11 2 ILASS V—POSTMASTER-GENERAL :— Vote No. 37 —Miscellaneous Services :— Item 1—Stationery, &c .. Item 2—Special allowance to telegraph messengers Item 3—Gas and water .. .. .. ■ • • • Item 4—Telephone-fees to non-permanent Postmasters and Telephonists .. .. • • • • • • Item 5—Additional payment to widow of late James Coventry for all rights to an improved form of index Item 6—Office expenses and contingencies,— Advertising and printing Allowances (interest, tellers, R.T.P.O., house, &c.) Carriage of private bags Cleaning and scavenging Lighting and fuel (gas excepted) Money-order and Savings-bank fees Postal Inspectors, travelling-expenses Overtime Parcels-post expenses Poundage Repairs, fittings, new buildings, &c. Sundries Temporary officers (excluding linemen) Travelling- and relieving-expenses Uniforms 214 12 4 2,857 10 1 270 0 9 1,915 4 8 1,445 18 9 277 7 2 988 3 7 1,142 0 10 2,346 6 2 1,776 8 8 1,770 5 10 2,411 16 8 2,439 18 0 3,495 11 9 1,212 11 10 7,161 18 11 410 0 0 2,572 14 2 8,045 9 7 100 0 0 24,569 17 1 Total net expenditure, Vote No. 37 £42,859 19 9 ILASS VI.—COMMISSIONER OF CUSTOMS :— Vote No. 39—Customs, Miscellaneous Services :— Item 1—Quarantine-keepers, Auckland, Wellington, Lyttelton, and Port Chalmers—Salaries, 1st April, 1898, to 31st March, 1899 .. Less recoveries 375 10 0 36 0 0 Item 2—Quarantine Stations—Rations, &c 339 10 0 18 0 8 Item 3—Bonus on exportation of canned and cured fish Item 4—Refund of poll-tax under Chinese Immigrants Act .. Refund of Customs duty on,— Item 5—Memorial to late Dr. Stuart Item 6—Statue of Her Majesty the Queen, Auckland Item 7—Monument to the victims of the coal-mine disaster, Stillwater Item 8—Goods destroyed by fire at Auckland Wharf 357 10 8 746 14 6 200 0 0 81 8 0 219 8 0 1,855 2 3 2,155 18 3 Carried forward 3,460 3 5