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Appropriations for Consolidated Fund Services.

CLASS III.—POST AND TELEGRAPH DEPARTMENT— continued.

Item. CONVEYANCE OF MAILS BY SEA. 19( 19-10. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 VOTE No. 11. Chaeges of and incidental to — Auckland Steam Services Australian Overland Transit ... Blind Bay Service Bluff-Stewart Island Services ... Chatham Islands Service Cost of Transit across North America and Atlantic of Homeward Mails European Transit Charges ... ... ... Fiji Service Gratuities for the Conveyance of Letters and Printed Matter Great Barrier Service Havelock-Picton (Pelorus Sound) Service Hokitika-Southern Ports Service Invercargill or Bluff-Cromarty Landing and shipping Mails Mail subsidy, Suez Mail subsidy, Vancouver ... ..i^ N elson-Croixelles New Zealand-Australia Service New Zealand-Pacific Islands Service Postal Union Transit Charges ... Salary, Resident Agent, San Francisco Subsidy: Mail, Wellington-Tahiti-Rarotonga Suez Services Vancouver Service ( Wellington-Motueka Service ... { Wellington-Pelorus Sound Service Westport-Karamea-Little Wanganui Services £ 1,131 2,200 109 300 350 1,600 5,000 1,690 18 ,500 250 120 600 275 150 1,000 1,000 100 15 ,000 1,200 400 75 3,500 11,100 2,800 £ 25 X 600 26 650 Total —Vote No. 11 ... 69 ,700 CONVEYANCE OF INLAND MAILS. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 i) 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 VOTE No. 12. Chaeges op and incidental to — Auckland Thames New Plymouth Napier Gisborne ... Wanganui Wellington ... Blenheim Nelson Westport Greymouth Hokitika Christchureh Timaru Oamaru Dunedin Invercargill 11,034 2,491 1,807 5 ,058 2 ,250 5,712 9 ,270 1,459 3,750 507 505 1,142 5 ,978 1 ,913 615 6,040 3 ,398 18 New Services, <fcc. (all districts), and estimated increased cost for March Quarter, 1910 62 ,929 2 ,700 Total—Vote No. 12 .... 65 ,62!