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CLASS V.—POST AND TELEGRAPH DEPARTMENT— continued.

Appropriations for Consolidated Fund Services.

No. of Officers. Item. '01-2. 1001-2. 1001-2. !POSTAL AND TELEGRAPH 8ALAEIB8— contd. ■ ■ VOTE No. 35— continued. Non-clerical Division— continued. £ £ 39 40 1,400 Country Postmasters New Stations, Telegraphists, Cadets, and Messengers 13,500 1,000 41 Increases to Salaries in excess of the Maximum Bates of Pay as set forth in the Schedules to " The Post and Telegraph Classification and Regulations Act, 1890," and. Amendments thereof,'and " The Post and. Telegraph Department Act, 1894 "— First Division — Secretary, £700 Superintendent of Electric Lines, £650 Assistant Secretary and Inspector, £600 Linemen —First Grade Letter-carriers — First Grade Second Grade Third Grade Post-office Messengers— First Grade 14,500 100 100 100 1S5 120 115 15 30 765 Less proportion of increases to Salaries provided for,but not payable during current year 272,318 8,197 269,121 Less estimated credits under section 41 of 2,073 ■' The Public Revenues Act, 1891 " 10,390 Total—- Vote No. 35 258,731 TELEGRAPH CABLE SUBSIDIES. VOTE No. 36. Contingent subsidy 250 250 Total —Vote No. 36 CONVEYANCE OF MAILS BY SEA. 1 2 3 4 5 6 VOTE No. 37. Bluff and Stewart Island Services ... Invercargill, Cromarty, and Te Oneroa ... ..• Chatham Islands Service Blind Bay Service San Francisco Service (three-weekly) Cost of Transit from San Francisco to New York and from New York to Queenstown of Homeward Mails Interprovincial Service (San Francisco Service) Suez Services Mail Agents and Travelling-allowance Auckland Steam Services Hokitika and Southern Ports Service Westport and Karamea and Little Wanganui Services Kiii Service 245 360 300 125 17,000 6,132 5,000 4,000 1,000 1,080 600 400 1,690 7 8 9 10 11 12 13