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Appropriations for Consolidated Fund- Services

CLASS III.—POST AND TELEGRAPH DEPARTMENT— continued.

Item. 191 '9-10. MISCELLANEOUS SERVICES— continued. VOTE No. 15— continued. Charges of and incidental to — continued. Further gratuity to Mrs. Longton, widow of Messenger Longton, killed on duty Grant to W. McNickle, Postmaster, Bull's, to assist in refurnishing after fire Interpreters' Fees Legal expenses Light, Fuel, and Water Lodging Allowances to Cadets and Cadettes Motor-lorry Service : Purchase of plant New Zealand's share of the cost of International Postal and Telegraph Bureaux, Berne, for the year 1908 New Plates and Dies for printing Stamps ... Office Expenses Overtime Parcel-post Expenses Postal Inspectors' Travelling-expenses .'.. Post-marking machines for various offices Postage-stamp and other Paper Printing, Binding, &c. Printing Inks Purchase and Hire of Bicycles, and Allowances to Officers using their own Machines Refund of amount of newspaper postage in default by Searchlight newspaper 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 Office and Dead Letter Office, Wellington, at £460 per annum Rent of premises, for storage of material, &c, from 1st Jrne, 1907, at £260 per annum ... Rent of premises for Post-office Savings-bank, Wellington, at £1,000 per annum Rents of sundry small offices throughout the Dominion (£1,830) Repairs, Fittings, New Buildings, &c. Special Allowance to Telegraph Message Boys during their First Year's Service Special allowance of 5s. per week to 100 Telegraph Message Boys Stamp-printing and other Stamp Machinery Stationery, &c. Temporary Officers, Letter-carriers, and Messengers ... Travelling, Removal, and Relieving Expenses Travelling Allowances and Expenses of Officers, Magistrates, Registrars, Police, and Pensioners in connection with Old-age Pensions ... .., Uniform Clothing £ £ 17 100 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 50 50 150 9,000 6,500 600 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 265 700 5 ,000 7,000 5,000 1,400 300 2,000 15 ,000 1,250 35 3,000 11 36 5,100 37 38 6,000 3!) 800 40 41 42 43 41 1,300 500 16 ,500 8,000 8,000 100 3 ,800 45 Less estimated credits under section 42 of " The Public Revenues Act. 1908 " ...\ 123 ,488 - 6 ,500 Total—Vote No. 15 116,988 TOTAL OF CLASS III £87i 165