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Appropriations for Consolidated Fund Services.

DEPARTMENT OF INTERNAL AFFAIRS -continued.

Number 1 if Persons. / tern. VOTE No. 23.—DEPARTMENT OF INTERNAL AFFAIRS— continued. 1923-24. 1923-24. Subdivision No. 1. — Head Office —continued. £ Other Charges for and incidental to — continued. Department of Internal Affairs —continued. Hector Observatory— 11 Maintenance of grounds ... 12 General expenses (including temporary assistance) 13 Instruments and equipment 14 Kinematograph-films : Cost of administration and expenses in connection with the censorship of 15 Law-costs ... ... 16 Light, power, and water for Government buildings . . 17 Office fittings and requisites — £ Head office ... ... 100 Ministers' offices ... ... 220 11 12 13 11 80 180 150 750 5 3,500 16 16 17 18 Overtime anel meal allowances 19 Payment to New Zealand Academy of Fine Arts, Wellington, for part services of custodian, National Picture Gallery, and other charges in connection therewith 20 Postage, telegrams, and rent of boxes ... Printing and Stationery — 21 Head office 22 Ministers' offices 23 Protection of Tuatara lizards: Special payments to lighthouse-keepers and others, also compensation for land for sanctuary on Kawera Island 24 Publications (including newspapers and books) 25 Renovation of historical graves of, and memorials to, soleliers and others who were killed or died in connection with the iVIaori and Great Wars, including wives and daughters of officers, and also men of the British and allied navies, and expenses in connection therewith 26 Rent 27 Salary, allowance, and expenses of Lady Medical Referee (part recoverable)... 28 Special allowance to shorthand-writers and typistes employ eel in Ministers' offices 29 Telephone services (including installation, extensions, maintenance, rent, and calls) 30 Temporary Assistance Travelling allowances and expenses of— 31 Ministers (allowances only as authorized by the Civil List Act, 1908) ... 32 Ministers beyond the Dominion 33 Ministers' expenses 34 Private Secretaries to Ministers 35 Officers of the Department 36 Contingencies, including unforeseen expenditure; incidental to the other items of this subdivision 320 20 18 19 160 600 20 21 22 23 1,650 1,100 175 1,000 24 25 26 27 2,200 63 470 28 270 29 600 *1,451 30 31 1,750 1,000 2,100 2,000 750 32 33 31 35 86 50 Less estimated credits under Section 48 of the Public Revenues Act, 1910— £ Commissions of Inquiry ... 500 Fuel for Government Buildings ... 50 Lady Medical Referee ... 305 Light, power, and water for Government Buildings ... 50 Temporary assistance ... 263 28,072 1,168 Total — Subdivision No. I 26,904 -44,260 * Includes cost-of-living increase to scale salaries or wages.