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PUBLIC ACCOUNTS, 1904-1905.

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

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£ 8. d. £ s. d. £ s. d. CLASS VII.—MINISTER OF JUSTICE :— Vote No. 30—Miscellaneous Services :— Item 1—Advertising, purohase of books, <fcc, — Advertising Law-books Directories Diaries 72 14 5 25 4 7 5 3 11 5 3 0 108 5 11 Item 2—Allowance to J. N. Wood, late Stipendiary Magistrate and Warden, 1st November, 1904, to 31st Maroh, 1905 Item 3— Compassionate allowance to the widow of the late John Allen, late Resident Magistrate, Picton Item 4—Compensation for destruction of eel-weirs in the Patea River Item 5—Compilation of Maori history (salary 1st March, 1904, to 31st January, 1905) Item 6—Expenses of winding up companies under " Companies Act, 1901" Item 7 —Expenses " under Shorthand Reporters Act " : Salary of S. Spragg, 1st April, 1904, to 31st March, 1905 Item 8—Expenses of Te Akau Royal Commission, — Commissioners' fees Sundries .. .. .. .. .. .: 50 0 0 300 0 0 216 15 0 107 2 0 16 0 100 0 0 Less recoveries for copy of evidence 108 8 0 3 0 0 105 8 0 Item 9—Expenses of Commission under " The Maori Land Claims Adjustment and Laws Amendment Aot, 1904 " — Travelling-expenses Hire of halls 40 12 1 3 15 0 Item 10—Extra clerical assistance, copying, interpreting, die. Item 11—Fees to Patent Office Agents Item 12—Fidelity-guarantee premiums Item 13—Fuel, light, water, and cleaning Item 14—Interest on £2,000, part purchase of Stewart Island.. Item 15—Law-costs in re Hawke's Bay Native cases.. Item 16—Native hostelries' building at New Plymouth, including salaries and travelling-expenses (to be refunded from Native Civil List) Item 17—Native water supply, Ohinemuri (labour and supply of pipes, &c) Item 18—Payments to Printing office for Patent Office Gazette Item 19—Payment to Survey Department for lithographing, preparation of plans, &o. Item 20—Purchase of reports and treatises for Crow n Law Offioe Item 21—Purchase of fireproof safes for Courts Item 22—Purchase of typewriters Item 23 —Statutes Revision Commission — Honoraria of Commissioners Clerical assistance 44 7 1 899 8 5 66 5 0 244 18 9 1,502 2 8 56 0 0 1,213 17 1 1,195 3 9 205 13 6 473 19 7 86 0 4 51 5 2 207 10 6 900 0 0 67 19 6 967 19 6 430 2 1 Item 24—Subscriptions to telephone exchanges Item 25 —Travelling allowances and expenses of offioers, (fee, of the Department Item 26—Contingencies,— Annual certificates of Crown Law Officers Card-cabinet, cards, binders, &o. (Patent Offioe) Cleaning Court-grounds, &c Clocks, repairs to clocks, &c Compensation to W. Cook under the Workmen's Compensation for Accidents Act Cyolostyles and copying-materials, &o. Despatch-bags, &c Filter, ballot-boxes, mats, brooms, lawn-mower, and other requisites, &c. Foreign postages Freights and cartage Improvement to Government residence, Chatham Islands .. Law costs Numbering-maohine Overcoats for messengers .. Preparation of jury lists Safe and repairs to safes Salary of messengers Salary of Native bailiff at Tauranga Salary of relieving Stipendiary Magistrate, Dunedin Salary of Warden's agent, Barrytown Share of administering Licensing Acts Sundries Typewriter requisites 12 12 0 25 7 8 9 5 3 8 12 6 70 0 0 14 1 11 9 6 6 20 0 7 1 11 1 10 11 2 25 0 0 13 13 0 3 10 0 4 3 0 2 10 8 33 0 0 30 8 4 10 0 0 58 6 8 5 0 0 12 0 5 25 14 2 46 18 8 395 5 2 451 13 7 Total net expenditure, Vote No. 30 £9,372 1 1