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Appropriations for Consolidated Fund Services.

LEGISLATIVE DEPARTMENTS—continued.

(a) Credits-in-aidOther Salaries. Charges. 1925-26. £ £ £ Subdivision I .. 125 .. 125 YII .. 6,088 6,088 Totals .. 125 6,088 6,213

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Item- VOTE No. 1.—LEGISLATIVE DEPARTMENTS— 1925-26. continued. 1925-26. Subdivision No. VII. —General Expenses—continued. £ £ Other Charges foe and incidental to — 24 Advertising ... ... ... 30 25 Bonus to employees whose salaries do not exceed £350 per annum ... ... ... 600 26 Charwomen ... .. ... 2,870 27 Gleaning buildings (three) previous to session ... 100 28 Compassionate allowance to daughter of late A. B. Pyemont, Clerk, House of Bepresentatives ... 82 Compassionate allowance to — 29 H. Good, Nightwatchman, on retirement ... 50 30 Mrs. Patterson, Charwoman, on retirement ... 30 31 Fuel, light, power, and water ... ... 2,325 32 Furniture, brooms, brushware, soap, towels, linen, matches, tools, coal-buckets, and shovels (purchase and repairs) ... ... ... 250 33 Laundry-work for Legislative Department ... 160 34 Meals to Messengers on late-sitting nights ... 95 35 Parliamentary photographic shield ... ... 25 36 Passages and expenses of witnesses attending Committee ... ... ... 110 37 Passages of— £ Members of both Houses ... ... 1,921 Members' wives * ... ... 300 2,224 38 Postage and telegrams, including parliamentary papers 900 39 Printing of Statutes, Journals, Appendices, Bills, Order Papers, &o. (part recoverable) ... ... 14,750 40 Private Secretary to the Leader of the Opposition ... 100 41 Railway passes and concessions to members and exmembers of the Legislature, families, relations, &c., cost of ... ... ... 24,478 42 Railway passes to officers of the Legislature, cost of 270 43 Railway sleeping-berths for Members ... ... 300 44 Travelling allowances and expenses ... ... 25 45 Typewriters: Purchase and repairs ... ... 50 46 Uniforms for messengers ... ... ... 100 47 Upkeep of parliamentary grounds ... ... 100 48 Winding and repairing clocks, &c. ... ... 42 49 Window-cleaning, rubbish-removal, and chimneysweeping ... ... ... 300 50 Contingencies, including unforeseen expenditure incidental to the other items of this subdivision ... 25 50,391 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 Department occupying Parlia- £ ment Buildings ... ... 1,088 Sale of— Statutes, .Journals. &c. ... 5,000 6,088 Total—Subdivision No. VII ... 54,036 GROSS Total ... ... ... ... 95,122 Credits-in-aid (a) ... ... ... 6,213 NET TOTAL—VOTE No. 1 ... ... — j 88,909