45

8.—7

CLASS VIII.—POST AND TELEGRAPH DEPARTMENT- continued.

Appropriations for Consolidated Fund Services.

No. of Officers. No. of Officers. 1! '04-5. Item POSTAL AND TELEGRAPH SALARIES— 19(H-5. continued. 1904-6* VOTE No. 36— continued. NoN-CLERTCAL DIVISION Continued. Contribution to Railway Department for combined Post-Telegraph-Railway Offices £ 10,595 £ 88 39 1,713 Country Postmasters 33,000 332.008 2,575 Total—Voth: No. 36 332,00: ■ CONVEYANCE OF MAILS BY SEA. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 3 9 K) II L2 L8 14 15 1(> 17 IS l<) 20 21 VOTE No. 37. Bluff and Stewart Island Services ... Invercargill 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 Fiji Service New Zealand and Pacific Islands Service ... ... | Great Barrier Service Vancouver Service Wellington and Pelorus Sound Service Wellington-Motueka Service Havelock and Bulwer (Pelorus Sound) Service ... Lyttelton and Pigeon Bay Service ... ... I Salary, Resident Agent, San Francisco (also £50 from Department of Commerce and Industries) ... Postal Union Transit Charges Gratuities for the Conveyance of Letters and Printed Matter Landing and shipping Mails 245 259 300 100 19,500 6,132 4,000 4,400 1,000 1,115 600 500 1,690 1,200 250 450 \ 70 ° 125 225 50 700 13,600 I 400 i 245 259 300 100 19,500 6,132 4,000 4,400 1,000 1,115 600 500 1,690 1,200 250 450 I 700 125 225 22 23 50 700 21 13,600 400 Total—Votk No. 37 57,541 CONVEYANCE OF INLAND MAILS. 1 2 3 4 5 (> 7 8 9 10 11 L2 13 VOTE No. 38. Auckland Thames New Plymouth Napier Gisborne Wanganui Wellington Blenheim Nelson Westport Greymouth Hokitika Christchurch 8,660 2,175 1,580 3,735 1.500 5,310 6,380 1,110 2,220 1,050 840 1,363 5,170 8,660 2,175 1,580 3,735 1.500 5,310 6,380 1,110 2,220 1,050 840 1,363 5,170