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PUBLIC ACCOUNTS, 1908-1909.

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

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Brought forward £ s. d. £ s. d. £ s. d. 8,282 10 11 CLASS III.—POST AND TELEGRAPH DEPARTMENT— continued. Vote No. 14—Miscellaneous Services— continued. Item 11—Automatic franking-machine : poundage on sales and refunds on spoiled impressions Item 12—Carriage of private bags Item 13—Cleaning and scavenging Item 14—Compensation for articles lost or damaged during transmission by post Item 15 —Compensation to Mrs. J. Longton, widow of Messenger Longton, payable under " The Workers' Compensation for Accidents Act, 1908 " Item 16—Compensation to widow of late Telegraph-lineman Whiteford, who was killed—payable under " The Workers' Compensation for Accidents Act, 1908 " .. Item 17—Compensation under award of Arbitration Court to T. B. Baldwin, telegraph-lineman, for injuries sustained .. Item 18—Compensation for determination of lease of postoffice site at Wallsend .. Item 19 —Expenditure occasioned by fire in General Post Office block on 22nd May, 1908 Item 20—Glenavy Post-office—loss by fire of cash, postal notes, &c Item 21—Legal expenses Item 22—Light, fuel, and water Item 23 -Lodging-allowances to cadets and cadettes.. Item 24—Loss by burglary at Otira Post-office Item 25—Medical expenses of 0. H. Mathieson, post-office messenger, on account of injury sustained in the performance of duties Item 26—Motor-lorry service, conveyance of mails at Wellington Item 27 —New Zealand's share of the cost of International Postal and Telegraph Bureaux, Berne, for the year 1907 Item 28—Office expenses .. Item 29—Overtime Item 30—Parcel-post expenses Item 31—Postal Inspectors' travelling-expenses Item 32—Postmarking-maohines for various offices Item 33—Printing, binding, &o. Item 34—Purchase and hire of bicycles, and allowances to letter-carriers, &c, using their own machines Item 35—Rent of premises— Rent of Parcels-post Office, Auckland, from 13th July, 1907, at £350 per annum Rent of premises for clearing-room, Wellington, from 15th July, 1907, at £550 per annum Rent of premises for Superintendent of Electric Lines Branch, Wellington, at £650 per annum Rent of premises for Parcels-post and Dead-letter Offices, Wellington, at £460 per annum Rent of premises for post-offioe, Lichfield Street, Christchurch, from 1st November, 1907, at £150 per annum Rent of premises for post-office, Upper Symonds Street, Auckland, at £104 per annum, from 1st January, 1908 Rent of premises for the storage of material, &c, from 1st June, 1907, at £5 per week Rent of premises for Post-Office Savings-Bank, Wellington, at £1,000 per annum Item 36 —Repairs, fittings, new buildings, &c Item 37 —Special allowance to telegraph messengers during their first year's service Item 38—Special allowanoe of 5s. per week to 122 telegraph message boys Item 39—Stationery, &o. Item 40—Temporary officers, letter-oarriers, and messengers .. Item 41—Travelling, removal, and relieving expenses Item 42—Unforeseen expenditure incidental to other items of the vote Item 43—Uniform clothing Item 44—Whakarewarewa Post-office burglary 128 5 5 624 5 7 4,446 3 11 6 16 6 400 0 0 374 0 0 145 12 0 10 0 0 248 17 11 54 18 8 157 4 1 8,991 4 4 6,055 0 5 72 6 0 43 9 0 1,146 19 4 55 8 7 5,467 9 9 8,182 6 8 5,025 3 4 1,450 16 1 831 6 8 14,888 6 3 3,055 3 5 2,459 6 0 5,332 7 7 1,550 0 0 1,004 1 7 13,664 2 4 11,534 18 8 11,408 17 6 3,794 12 9 4 10 8 Total net expenditure, Vote No. 14 £120,896 11 11 CLASS XL—NATIVE DEPARTMENT :— Vote No. 30—Miscellaneous Services :— Item 1—Clearing Native lands of noxious weeds Item 2—Compensation for claims, Utanga Blook, No. 9 58 10 0 200 0 0 Carried forward 258 10 0