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PUBLIC BUILDINGS, DOMAINS, AND MAINTENANCE OF ROADS, ETC.—continued

Number Ifcem _ Q07_0Q of Persons. VOTE No. 8.—PUBLIC BUILDINGS—continued. 1927-28. I Maintenance, etc. —continued. \ £ £ Other Charges for and incidental to —continued. 27 Government House, Wellington (maintenance) ... 1,200 28 Government Houses, Auckland and Wellington : Household furnishings, &c. ... ... 470 29 High Commissioner's Office: Interest on unpaid balance of purchase-money ... ... 3,100 j 80 Lyttelton Borough Council, for extra water supplied to Government Departments ... ... 100 31 Parliamentary Buildings ... ... ... 5,000 32 Postages, telegrams, and telephone services (including installation, extensions, maintenance, rent, and calls) 250 33 Services and supplies for other Departments (£7,000 recoverable) ... ... ... 7,700 I 34 Special and other rates on Government properties ... 125 35 Stoke Mental Hospital: Allowance to contractor owing to termination of contract ... ... 301 36 Tramways and motor-buses : Expenses re inquiries, appointments to Appeal Boards, &c. ... 400 37 Travelling allowances (£300) and expenses (£650) ... 950 38 Wages of overseers and staff workmen (£4,000 recoverable) ... ... ... 5,500 39 Contingencies, including unforeseen expenditure incidental to the other items of the vote ... 55 Estimated credits-in-aid under Section 51 of the Public Revenues Act, 1926 (see end of vote) — Freight, &c. ... ... £12,000 Public Works Workshops ... 50,000 Rents ... ... ... 10,000 Services, &c., for other Departments 7,000 Wages of overseers, &c. ... 4,000 Miscellaneous items ... ... 1,968 84,968 180,259 Gross Total ... ... ... 186,413 Credits-in-aid ... ... ... ... 84,968 NET TOTAL—VOTE No. 8 ... ... 101,445 VOTE No. 9.—GOVERNMENT AND OTHER DOMAINS. Government Domains— ] Salaries— General Division. £ 2 at £270 ... ... 540 3 1 at £252 ... ... 252 792 Non-permanents. 1 Gardener at £253J ... ... 254 7 Gardeners at £239 ... ... 1,673 3 Gardeners at £234 ... ... 702 14 3 Gardeners at £229 ... ... 687 3,316 17 —— 4,108