GOVERNMENT ADVERTISING. RETURN OF ALL AMOUNTS PAID TO NEWSPAPERS, ETC., PUBLISHED WITHIN THE DOMINION OF NEW ZEALAND, FOR GOVERNMENT ADVERTISEMENTS INSERTED THEREIN, DURING THE FINANCIAL YEAR ENDED 31st MARCH, 1912.

Appendix to the Journals of the House of Representatives, 1912 Session II, H-29

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Session 11. 1912. NEW ZEALAND.

GOVERNMENT ADVERTISING. RETURN OF ALL AMOUNTS PAID TO NEWSPAPERS, ETC., PUBLISHED WITHIN THE DOMINION OF NEW ZEALAND, FOR GOVERNMENT ADVERTISEMENTS INSERTED THEREIN, DURING THE FINANCIAL YEAR ENDED 31st MARCH, 1912.

Laid on the. Table by Leave of the House.

Return of all Amounts paid to Newspapers, etc., published within the Dominion of New Zealand, for Government Advertisements inserted therein, during the Financial Year ended 31st March, 1912.

Name of Newspaper. Place of Publication. Amount. Akaroa Mail ... Alexandra Herald Ashburton Guardian Ashburton Mail Athletic Field Auckland and Manukau Times ... Auckland Free Press ... Auckland Star Auckland Weekly News Bay of Islands Luminary Bay of Plenty Times ... Bluff Press Bruce Herald ... Budget and Taranaki Weekly Herald Buller Miner ... ... Buller Post ... ... .,. Canterbury Times Charleston Herald Cheviot News Clutha Leader Colonist Coromandel County News Cromwell Argus Daily Telegraph Daily Telegraph Dannevirke Advocate ... Dannevirke Evening News Dominion Dunstan Times ... I Akaroa ... | Alexandra South ... Ashburton ... Auckland ... Onehunga ... Auckland ... j „ ... | Kawakawa ... Tauranga ... Bluff... ... Milton New Plymouth ... Westport ... ; Murchison ... Christchurch ... ... Charleston ... : Cheviot ... ; Balclutha ... Nelson ... : Coromandel ... i Cromwell ... Napier ...Waihi ... j Dannevirke ... j Wellington ... i Clyde £ s. d. ... 17 10 3 ... j 34 8 6 ... ; 72 16 0 ... ! 68 3 0 15 15 0 1 1 3 24 17 0 ... j 524 15 7 ... I 1710 6 ... ! 18 15 0' 39 9 0 28 10 6 ... 42 13 & ... j 45 16 3 ... ! 43 5 0 8 0 6 76 18 9 13 14 0 22 8 6 71 8 1 154 0 0 19 4 9 34 5 6 173 0 3 57 11 3 85 19 0 ... ! 23 3 1 ... j 104 9 3 ... ! 33 0 3 Carried forward ... I 2,060 19 6 2,060 19 6

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Name of Newspaper. 'ame o ace o: .JCiti ;ion. .mount. 1 Brought forward East Coast Guardian ... Egmont Star ... Eketahuna Express Ellesmere Guardian Eltham Argus Evening News Evening Post ... ... Evening Star ... Examiner Farmers' Circular Farmers' Union Advocate Feilding Star ... Free Press Geraldine Guardian Geraldine Mail Gisborne Times Golden Bay Argus Golden Bay Times Gdldfields Advocate Gore Standard Greymouth Evening Star Grey River Argus Hawera and Normanby Star Hawke's Bay Herald ... Hawke's Bay Tribune ... Hokianga Times Hokitika Guardian Horowhenua Chronicle... Hot Lakes Chronicle ... Hunterville Express Huntly Press ... Hutt and. Petone Chronicle Hutt Valley Independent Inangahua Herald Inangahua Times Inglewood Record Kaiapoi Record Kaikoura Star Kaipara Advertiser Katipo Kawhia Settler King Country Chronicle Kumara Times Lake County Press. Lake Wakatipu Mail ... Liberator Loco Record ... Lyttelton Times Manawatu Daily Times Manawatu Evening Standard Manawatu Herald Mangaweka Settler Manukau Gazette Maoriland Worker Marlborough Express ... Marlborough Press Martinborough Star Mataura Ensign Mercantile Gazette of New Zealand Morrinsville Star Motueka Star Mount Benger Mail Mount Ida Chronicle ... Nelson Evening Mail ... New Zealand Bulletin ... ... I j ... | ... I ... I Opotiki Hawera Eketahuna Southbridge Eltham Christchurch ... ! Wellington I Dunedin Woodville Dunedin \ Wellington \ Feilding ; Balclntha : Temuka ; Gisborne | Collingwood Takaka : Karangahake ... | Gore ... | Greymouth I Hawera : Napier I Hastings Kohukohu j Hokitika j Levin Rotorua Hunterville Huntly Petone Upper Hutt Reefton £ s. a. 2,060 19 6 13 8 10 12 10 0 41 17 0 26 3 6 37 0 0 31 6 3 707 14 0 525 16 9 57 0 6 10 0 24 19 9 89 16 6 53 8 6 7 10 9 0 18 0 91 1 9 18 19 2 14 2 6 15 9 9 46 6 3 222 11 8 202 16 0 73 17 0 131 19 0 81 3 9 11 16 9 126 15 0 25 3 0 72 4 9 32 19 3 17 1 10 51 5 3 6 3 0 74 19 6 73 2 0 39 8 9 7 8 6 14 13 3 18 6 9 15 0 0 15 10 6 63 19 0 62 13 0 32 6 9 34 9 6 0 16 6 2 15 0 563 19 8 136 7 6 119 5 9 42 7 3 49 16 0 8 5 0 13 8 9 108 0 6 56 17 3 16 17 0 98 10 6 2 3 9 8 11 3 17 3 0 15 6 6 21 1 3 153 4 4 18 6 ,/ ... Inglewood Kaiapoi Kaikoura Helensville Wellington Kawhia Te Kuiti Kumara Arrowtown Queenstown Auckland Christchurch ... Palmerston North Foxton Mangaweka Onehunga ... Wellington Blenheim Picton Martinborough Gore... Wellington Morrinsville Motueka Roxburgh Naseby Nelson Hastings Carried forward ... 6,821 8 3

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Return of all Amounts paid to Newspapers, etc. — continued.

Name of Newspaper. lace ol ication. .mount. Brought forward New Zealand Dairyman ... ... " ... New Zealand Farmer ... New Zealand Free Lance New Zealand Herald ... New Zealand Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic Review New Zealand Journal of Education New Zealand Observer... New Zealand Railway Officers' Advocate... New Zealand Railway Review ... New Zealand Shipping and Commerce New Zealand Tablet New Zealand Times New Zealand Town and Country Life New Zealand Truth North Auckland Age North Auckland Times Northern Advocate Northern Advocate Weekly Northern Mail Northern Mail Weekly... North Otago Times ... ... ... Oamaru Mail ... Observer Ohakune Times Ohinemuri Gazette Ohura Advocate Opotiki Herald Opunake Times Orepuki Advocate Otago Daily Times Otago Witness Otaki Mail Otautau Farmer Otautau Standard Outlook Pahiatua Herald Palmerston and Waikouaiti Times Patea County Press Pelorus Guardian Poverty Bay Herald Press Wellington Auckland Wellington Auckland Dunedin Auckland Dunedin Wellington Dunedin Wellington Auckland Wellington Mangonui Dargaville Whangarei £ s. d. 6,821 8 3 19 19 6 44 6 3 205 19 1 523 16 3 106 16 3 0 6 0 215 4 3 3 15 0 27 10 0 10 6: 0 42 3 0 672 9 6 80 2 6 7.1 17 3 13 3 1 30 9 9 89 18 0 13 9 0 52 10 0 6 10 6 18 3 7 148 10 6 0 9 9 27 9 4 48 17 3 10 3 3 28 17 1 16 13 0 40 13 9 541 18 9 ' 13J 17 6 25 18 9 38 6 10 40 7 6 14 0 53 12 6 54 5 0 28 19 6 34 5 6 106 15 6 552 1 9 63 0 0 14 10 0 85 18 9 15 7 5 62 7 6 44 3 9 65 19 0 47 0 1 305 3 6 9 1 0 307 14 3 231 6 7 0 15 0 22 2 1 30 11 8 65 16 3 40 8 6 61 7 9 26 3 3 165 3 7 137 13 II 50 8 10 58 7 6 Oamaru Ohristchurch ... Ohakune Paeroa Ohura Opotiki Opunake Orepuki Dunedin Otaki Otautau Dunedin Pahiatua Palmerston Patea Havelock Gisborne Christchurch ... Wellington Raglan Marton Warkworth Rotorua Auckland Progress Raglan County Chronicle Rangitikei Advocate Rodney and Otamatea Times Rotorua Times Saturday Night Sentinel and Sporting Times Southern Cross Southland Daily News... Southlander ... ... ... .. • ... Southland Times Spectator Sport Standard Star ... Stratford Evening Post... Taieri Advocate Taihape Daily Times ... Tapanui Courier Taranaki Daily News ... Taranaki Herald ... ... "... Taumarunui Press Te Aroha and Ohinemuri News ... Invercargill ,/ Christchurch ... Auckland Rangiora Christchurch ... Stratford Mosgiel Taihape Tapanui New Plymouth n Taumarunui ... Te Aroha Carried forward ... 12,912 0 2

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P. J. Kellehek, Wellington, 9th August, 1912. Clerk in Charge Advertising Office. Approximate Cost of Paper. —Preparation, not given ; printing {1,500 copies), £:i 17s. 66.

Authority : John Mackay, Government Printer, Wellington.—l9l2.

Price ."ii. i

Name of Newspaper. Place of Publication. lace ol Amount. Brought forward ... ... j Te Aroha Mail ... ... ... "... Te Aroha Temuka Leader ... ... ... ... ! Temuka Temuka News ... ... ... ... : „ Te Puke Times ... ... ... ... Te Puke Thames Advertiser ... ... ... ... j Thames Thames Star ... ... ... ... ... „ Timaru Herald ... ... ... ... Timaru Timaru Post ... ... ... ... ... „ Tuapeka Times ... ... ... ... i Lawrence Vanguard ... ... ... ... ... Christchurch ... Waikato Argus ... ... ... ... Hamilton Waikato Independent ... ... ... ... Cambridge Waikato Times ... ... ... ... Hamilton Waimarino County Call ... .-.. ... ', Raetihi Waimate Advertiser ... ... ... ... j Waimate Waimate Times ... ... ... ... j „ Waimate Witness ... ... ... ... | Manaia Waipa Post ... ... ... ... ... Te Awamutu ... Waipawa Mail ... ... ... ... Waipawa Waipukurau Press ... ... ... ... Waipukurau ... Wairarapa Age ... ... ... ... i Masterton Wairarapa Daily News... ... ... ... [Carterton Wairarapa Daily Times ... ... ... j Masterton Wairarapa Standard ... ... ... ... | Greytown Wairoa Bell ... ... ... ... ... I Dargaville Wairoa Guardian ... ... ... ... Wairoa, Hawke's Bay ... Waitara Evening Mail ... ... ... ... Waitara Waitemata Post ... ... ... ... Devonport Waitemata Times ... ... ... ... i „ Wanganui Chronicle ... .. ... ■ ... Wanganui Wanganui Herald ... ... ... ... i „ Weekly Chronicle ... ... ... ... „ Weekly Graphic ... ... ... ... j Auckland Weekly Herald ... ... ... ... Wellington ... Weekly Press ... ... ... ... ... Christchurch ... Weekly Times ... ... ... ... Invercargill West Coast Times ... ... ... ... Hokitika Western Star ... ... ... ... ... Riverton Westport News ... ... ... ... Westport Westport Times .... ... ... ... „ Whakatane County Press ... ... ... Whakatane Winton Record ... ... ... ... Winton Wyndham Farmer ... ... ... ... Wyndham Wyndham Herald ... ... ... .. „ Sundry books, guide-books, time-tables, and magazines Sundry show catalogues and programmes ... £ ». d. 12,912 0 % 32 9 3 46 10 9 5 18 0 0 10 0 80 16 2 93 3 8 160 0 0 134 7 6 58 0 0 0 15 0 106 1 6 49 3 0 L28 16 6 14 7 6 32 12 3 35 13 3 28 0 4 7 9 4 49 13 0 34 14 & 78 4 & 57 6 9 76 0 0 49 5 9 35 11 6 26 18 9 41 8 6 33 18 8 8 7 3 130 2 0 114 3 6 17 0 129 16 3 32 7 7 80 13 9 11 14 0 118 8 6 51 6 8 136 16 0 135 7 9 18 7 9 37 19 7 38 19 6 35 4 9 109 10 0 83 7 4 Total ... ... - ... £15,683 15 3