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Post and Telegraph Department. 90. The classified staff on the following dates was, — M i Amount. Number. „ Ist April, 1913 .. .. .. 5,372 708,165 1914 .. .. ..5,633 761,365 1915 .. .. .. 5,958 824,242 1916 .. .. ..6,441 885,927 1917 .. .. .. 6,956 970,641 1918 .. .. .. 6,965 1,008,186 91. The average salary for the year ending 31st March, 1919, for adult male officers is £149-75, for female officers £108-6 ; and for the whole staff, including 808 message boys and girls at £40 per annum each, and excluding the Administrative Division, is £144-75. 92. The classification increments provided on the Ist April, 1918, represent £58,742, as against £57,547 for the preceding year. 93. It is estimated, as at Ist April, 1918, that classified salaries will be underspent by approximately £385,000 for all Departments, including the Post and Telegraph, owing to the absence of officers at the war ; but it will be necessary to set against this an expenditure estimated at £235,000 for permanent and temporary assistance other than that supplied to the Defence Department for its special work. All of which is humbly submitted for Your Excellency's consideration. D. Robertson, Commissioner. A. D. THOMSON,Assistant Commissioner'. Office of the Public Service Commissioner, Wellington, 31st July, 1918. Note.— Owing to the need for conserving stocks of paper several tables are not printed.