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DETAILS OF ESTIMATES FOR THE

STAMP DUTIES DEPARTMENT

Minister of Stamp Duties AN ESTIMATE of the Sum that will be required in the Year ending 31st March, 1946, to defray the Salaries and Expenses of the Stamp Duties Department. Summary

(a) Increase in salary rates, scale rises, and officers returning from Armed Forces. (b) Commission has not yet functioned. (r) Removals not yet completed. (d) Provision made for purchase of equipment for district offices. (e) Provision made for purchase of typewriters for head and district offices. (/) Overexpenditure in 1944-45 and increase this yoar duo to urgent requirements of district offices.

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1945-46. 1944-45 Salaries. Other Charges. Total. Voted. Expended. Vote —Stamp Duties—■ £ . £ £ £ £ Subdivision 1.—Stamp Duties .. .. 40,638 55,239 95,877 78,312 77,602 „ II. —Land and Deeds Registry .. 46,985 22,310 69,295 57,670 59,907 GROSS Total 87,623 77,549 165,172 135,982 137,509 Credits-IN-AID .. .. .. 500 300 800 875 1,102 NET TOTAL .. .. .. 87,123 77,249 164,372 135,107 136,407 , N " rabcr 1944-45 Of Persons. VOTE—STAMP DUTIES 1945-46. ' 1945-461944-45 Voted. Expended. Subdivision No. I.—Stamp Duties £ £ i' Salaries— Administrative Division 1 1 1 at £1,225 (Commissioner of Stamp Duties and Secretary for Land and Deeds) .. .. .. .. 1,225 1,150 I Other Salaries j> 32,508 113 112 113 (£115 to £840) .. .. .. .. .. 39,413 31,565 J 114 113 (a) 40,638 32,715 32,508 Other Charges for and incidental to — Bondholders Incorporation Commission, expenses of (recoverable) .. .. .. .. .. (b) 50 50 Expenses of removal of offices and alterations and renovations incidental thereto .. .. .. .. 800 800 (c) Interest on succession du ty overpaid .. .. .. 200 200 229 Office equipment, fittings, and requisites, &c. .. .. (d) 350 75 165 Office expenses .. .. .. .. (e) 1,450 995 933 Overtime and meal allowances .. .. .. 2,500 2,000 2,622 Payments to the Post and Telegraph Department .. 2,125 1,875 2,147 Printing and stationery .. .. .. .. (/) 1,250 730 (/) 1,252 Refunds of conveyance duty .. .. .. . . 4 641 641 Refunds of estate and succession duty .. .. 805 Refunds of overseas - passenger duty paid by officers returning to Fiji from furlough in New Zealand and by officers transferred to Samoa or Cook Islands .. . . 5 5 Refunds of racing revenue, patriotic race-meetings .. 40,000 31,230 31,213 Remission of interest on death duties on soldiers' estates 100 250 136 Rent of offices 3,100 3,100 2,792