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Appropriations for Consolidated Fund Services.

LEGISLATIVE DEPARTMENTS—continued.

(a) Credits-in-aid : — Other Salaries. Charges. 1926-27. £ £ £ Subdivision I 125 .. 125 VII .. 8,488 8,488 Totals .. 125 8,488 8,613

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Number Item / 1Q9fi_07 of Persons. , V OTE No. 1.—LEGISLATIVE DEPARTMENTS— 1 ' ; -° - J '* ! continued. 1926-27. Subdivision No. VII.—General Expenses—continued. £ £ Othek Chakues foe and incidental to—27 Advertising ... ... ... 30 28 Bonus to employees whose salaries do not exceed £350 per annum ... ... ... 600 29 Charwomen ... .. ... 2,650 30 Fuel, light, power, and water ... ... 2,625 31 Furniture, brooms, brushware, soap, towels, linen, matches, tools, coal-buckets, and shovels (purchase and repairs) ... ... ... 250 Grants of — 32 Six months' pay in lien of leave of absence to W. H. Russell, Hansard Reporter, on retirement 225 33 Three months' pay in lieu of leave of absence to C. Wilson, Chief Librarian, on retirement ... 173 34 Laundry-work for Legislative Department ... 160 ; 35 Meals to Messengers on late-sitting nights ... 95 36 Office equipment, &c., for Ministers' offices ... 300 37 Parliamentary photographic shield ... ... 25 38 Passages and expenses of witnesses attending Committee ... ... ... 50 39 Passages of— £ Members of both Houses ... ... 1,500 Members'wives ... ... 200 1,700 40 Postage and telegrams, including parliamentary papers 800 41 Printing of Statutes, Journals, Appendices, Bills, Order Papers, &c. (part recoverable) ... ... 14,000 42 Private Secretary to the Leader of the Opposition ... 100 43 Railway passes and concessions to members and exmembers of the Legislature, families, relations, &c., cost of ... ... ... 24,708 44 Railway passes to officers of the Legislature ... 270 45 Railway sleeping-berths for Members of Parliament 350 46 Travelling allowances and expenses ... ... 25 47 Typewriters : Purchase and repairs ... ... 330 48 Uniforms for messengers ... ... ... 200 | 49 Upkeep of parliamentary grounds ... ... 250 50 Winding and repairing clocks, &c. ... ... 66 51 Window-cleaning, rubbish-removal, and chimneysweeping ... ... ... 450 52 Contingencies, including unforeseen expenditure incidental to the other items of this subdivision ... 25 50,457 Estimated credits-in-aid under Section 22 of the Appropriation Act, 1923 (see end of vote) — Fuel, light, power, water, and general attendance supplied other Departments occupying Parlia- £ ment Buildings ... ... 1,088 Sale of Statutes, Journals, Ac. ... 7,400 8,488 Total—Subdivision No. VII ... [ 54,875 Gboss Total ... ... ... : ... 96,431 Credits-in-aid (a) ... ... ... ... 8,613 NET TOTAL—VOTE No. 1 ... ... 87,818