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A ppropriations for Consolidated Fund Services.

LEGISLATIVE DEPARTMENTS— continued.

Number i,i Persons. I I .tom.l VOTE No. 1.—LEGISLATIVE DEPARTMENTS— continued. _ ]924-25. 1924 4-25. 1924-25. Subdivision No. VII. — General Expenses —continued. £ £ £ £ 28 29 30 31 32 33 Other Charges for and incidental to— 28 Advertising 29 Bonus to employees whose salaries do not exceed £350 per annum 30 Charwomen 31 Cleaning buildings (three) previous to session 32 Fuel, light, power, and water 33 Furniture, brooms, brushvvare, soap, towels, linen, matches, tools, coal-buckets, and shovels (purchase and repairs) Grants of 6 months' salary in lieu of leave of absence on retirement to — 34 S. Spragg, Chief Hansard Reporter ... 35 J. M. Geddis, Hansard Reporter 36 Laundry-work for Legislative Department 37 Parliamentary photographic shield 38 Passages and expenses of witnesses attending .Committee 30 600 3,194 100 2,475 250 30 600 3,194 100 2,475 250 342 221 150 25 50 34 35 36 37 38 342 221 150 25 50 39 40 Passages of— £ 39 Members of both Houses ... ... 1,974 40 Members' wives ... ... ... 437 2,411 900 41 42 2,411 43 44 4 5 46 47 -18 49 50 51 52 41 Postage and telegrams, including parliamentary papers 42 Printing of Statutes, Journals, Appendices, Bills, Order Papers, &c. (part recoverable) ... 43 Private Secretary to the Leader of the Opposition ... 44 Railway sleeping-berths for Members 45 Refreshments to Messengers on late-sitting nights ... 46 Repairs to billiard-tables 47 Travelling allowances and expenses 48 Typewriters : Purchase and repairs 49 Uniforms for messengers 50 Upkeep of parliamentary grounds 51 Winding and repairing clocks, &c. 52 Window-cleaning, rubbish-removal, and chimneysweeping 53 Contingencies, including unforeseen expenditure incidental to the other items of this subdivision 15,250 125 300 125 52 25 50 175 125 42 900 15,250 125 300 125 52 25 50 175 125 42 415 25 415 58 25 Estimated credits-in-aid under Section 48 of the Public Revenues Act, 1910 (see end of vote) — Fuel, light, power, water, and general attendance supplied other Departments occupying Parlia- £ ment Buildings ... ... 1,300 Sale of— Statutes, Journals, &c. . ... 4,500 27,457 27,457 5,800 Total — Subdivision No. VII ... - _l 30,972 Gross Total 75,914 Credits-in-aid (a) ... 5,925 NET TOTAL—VOTE No. 1 ... 69,989 (a.) Credit Sub Sub ■odits-in-aid — Salaries. Charges. £ £ Subdivision I . . . . .. 125 Subdivision VII .. .. .. .. 5,800 Total. £ 125 5,800 Totals . .. .. 125 5,800 5,925