YEAR ENDING 31 MARCH, 1940.

LEGISLATIVE DEPARTMENTS —continued.

(a) Includes provision for two annual rail passes at £90 per annum. (b) Piano-tuning, £1 55.; cartage and freight, 10s. 2d.; taxi-hire, Members and staff, £4 3s. 6d.; travellingexpenses, Clerk of House of Representatives, delegate to Library Conference, Palmerston North, £3 7s. 6d.; medical expenses, Messenger, £1 Is.; New Zealand Library Association, registration and subscription fees, £1 10s. 9d.; extra labour, opening Parliament, £25 14s. lOd.; equipment Members' gymnasium, £1 IBs.: total, £39 10s. 9d. Estimated. Other 1939-40. Estimated. Recovered. (o) Credits-in-aid— Salaries. Charges. Total. 1938-39. 1938-39. . £ £ £ £ & Subdivision II .. .... .. .. • • 19 IV .. 540 .. 540 -. . 84 „ V .. .. 21-0 .. 240 VI .. 479 .. 479 1,030 1.027 VII.. .... 34 34 327 315 Totals .. .. 1,259 34 1,293 1,357 1,445

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Number 1938-39 of Persona. VOTE No. . —LEGISLATIVE —continued. 1939-40. " l Q3Q-401Q3S-39 , I Voted. Expended. Subdivision No. VII. —General Expenses —continued. I Charges for and incidental to —continued. £ £ £ Postage and telegrams, including parliamentary papers .. 1,450 1,450 978 Printing of Statutes, Journals, Appendices, Bills, Order Papers, Standing Orders, Statutory Regulations, &c. .. 6,000 6,000 6,290 Railway passes and concessions to members and ex-members of the Legislature, families, relations, &c., cost of .. 26,500 26,500 26,287 Railway sleeping-berths — £ Members .. .. .. .. .. 1,400 Members' wives .. .. .. .. 350 1,750 1,750 1,342 Refund to Post Office, being difference between special and ordinary rates for telegrams from members of the General Assembly .. .. .. .. . ■ 2,000 2,000 2,000 Supply of publications to Members of the Legislature .. 400 400 440 Telephone services (rents and calls) : Payment to Post and Telegraph Department of difference between full rates and half rates allowed to members of the House of Representatives and Legislative Council .. .. 1,300 1,000 1,274 Tram fares, freights, and cartage, &c. .. .. .. 10 10 5 Travelling allowances and expenses of Members travelling to and returning from Parliament .. . . .. 450 450 315 Travelling-expenses of Speakers of both Houses during recess 20 20 3 Travelling-expenses and annual rail passes, Clerks of both Houses .. .. .. .. ■. • • («) 200 Typewriters — £ Purchases .. .. .. • • 250 Maintenance .. .. .. .. 25 275 375 327 Uniforms for messengers and night-watchmen .. .. 300 128 104 Winding and repairing clocks, &c. .. .. .. 80 80 69 Window-cleaning, rubbish-removal, and chimney-sweeping 224 224 230 Contingencies, including unforeseen expenditure incidental to the other items of this subdivision .. .. 50 50 (b) 40 Estimated credits-in-aid under Section 51 of the Public Revenues Act, 1926 (see end of vote) — £ Fuel, light, power, and water .. .. 25 Window-cleaning .. .. .. 9 34 Total-Subdivision No. VII .. .. 49,426 49,154 46,265 GROSS Total .. 111,288 106,417 100,236 Credits-in-aid (c) .. .. .. 1,293 1,357 1,445 NET TOTAL—VOTE No. .. .. .. 109,995 105,060 98,791