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DETAILS OF ESTIMATES FOE THE

CUSTOMS DEPARTMENT—continued

(а) Less purchases than anticipated. (б) Less travelling on account of war. (c) Increase on account of higher rates operating consequent upon improved salary scales. (d) Printing of forms, books, &c., to last for a longer period owing to relaxation of paper restrictions. (e) Expenditure greator than anticipated. (/) Transfers anticipated owing to pending retirements. (g) Appointment of additional Inspector, 1945-46. (h) Number of officers, 51. Travelling-allowances, £818; travelling-expenses, £150; taxi and motor hire, £54; mileageallowances, £14. («) Inoreased exports to the Islands.

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Number ° fPers0 " 8 ' VOTE—CUSTOMS—continued 1945-46. 1944-45. 1945-46 J 911-15 Voted. Expended. Subdivision No. I.—Customs Offices and Services—continued £ f £ Charges foe and incidental to —continued Office expenses .. .. .. .. .. 1,550 1,735 1,521 Office fittings and requisites .. .. .. .. 500 500 (a) 249 Official Representative, London — Travelling and general expenses .. .. .. 350 350 319 Official Representative, New York— Travelling and general expenses .. .. .. 1,200 1,500 (6) 1,061 Overtime and meal allowances .. .. .. (c) 13,000 12,000 10,817 Payments to the Post and Telegraph Department .. 6,000 5,475 6,394 Printing and stationery .. .. .. .. 1,750 1,000 (d) 1,524 Rent of offices .. .. .. .. .. 1,600 1,575 1,465 Rewards in connection with the protection of the revenue and the detection of offences against the Customs Acts or the Immigration Restriction Acts .. .. .. 750 750 (e) 1,175 Testing and gauging instruments .. .. .. 25 25 19 Transfer and removal expenses .. .. ..(f) 750 500 615 Travelling allowances and expenses .. .. ■•((]) 1,200 1,000 (h) 1,036 Contingencies .. .. .. .. .. 50 100 25 25 Estimated credits-in-aid under Section 51 of the Public Revenues Act, 1926 (see end of vote) — Recoveries of overtime, postage, legal and £ miscellaneous expenses, &c. .. .. 3,300 30,300 28,235 27,643 Total—Subdivision No. I .. .. 204,802 178,073 171,389 Subdivision No. II.—Customs : Miscellaneous Services Charges for and incidental to — Customs Building, Wellington .. .. .. 500 500 477 Grant to Cook and Niue Islands Governments of an amount equivalent to the Customs duties, petrol and tire-tax, and war taxation collected in New Zealand on goods afterwards shipped to those islands .. .. (i) 4,185 3,196 3,196 Grants to officers in lieu of leave on retirement .. .. 700 200 161 Payment of the monetary equivalent of leave due to deceased officers .. .. .. .. .. .. 200 200 175 Refund of deposit under the Immigration Restriction Acts which had previously been forfeited .. .. .. 400 200 200 Refund of duty and sales-tax on chairs for invalids, and clothing, apparatus, and other articles for persons in poor circumstances who cannot pay the duty .. .. 50 50 29 Refund of duty and sales tax on printed matter and other articles for the use of Boy Scouts, Girl Guides, Navy League, and similar patriotic societies, Red Cross Society and Young Helpers' League, as may be approved by the Minister .. 20 20 Compassionate grants to widows of deceased officers .. .. 300 962