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AN ESTIMATE of the Sum that will be required in the Year ending 30 June 1869 to defray the Salaries, Expenses, and Contingencies of POSTAL SERVICES and TELEGRAPH and MARINE ENGINEER DEPARTMENTS.

item. 1808-9. General Charges. £ s. d. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 G-eneral Post Office. Secretary, General Post Office Inspector of Post Offices Controller of Money Orders and Savings Banks ... Chief Clerk Dead Letter Clerk 2 Clerks—one at £190, one at £180 ... 2 Clerks, 1 at £175, 1 at £160 Messenger Contingencies 600 500 400 300 200 370 335 110 250 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Total —Vote 13 —General Post Office 3,065 0 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Conveyance of Mails by Sea — Contribution to Suez Line 3 Travelling Mail Agents on Panama Line Intercolonial Interprovincial Demurrage Contingencies, Bonus, Gratuities, &c. Commission on Money Orders due to Foreign Post Offices 5,900 750 (a) 1,500 (b) 10,200 500 1,000 1,081 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 7 Total—Vote 14—Conveyance of Mails by Sea 20,931 3 7 (a) £1,500 contracted for. (b) £2,100 contracted for. \ Provincial Charges. 400 0 0 1,460 0 0 235 0 0 100 0 0 50 0 0 PEOVINCIAL POSTAL SEEVICES. Auckland. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Chief Office— (nipt PftHTin n stpt* 9 Clerks, 1 at £275, 1 at £200, 2 at £160, 2 at £145, 3 at £1.25 2 Letter Carriers, 1 at £120, 1 at £115 Messenger Shipping Officer at Onehunga Shortland — Postmaster Clerk 64 Country Postmasters — 1 at £75, 1 at £40, 2 at £25, 8 at £20, 7 at £15, 1 at £12, 10 at £10, 1 at £8, 3 at £6, 29 at £5, 1 at £4 Conveyance of Mails Eent of Office Fittings of new Post Office, Architect's Commission, Expenses of Eemoval, and Contingencies Contingencies 160 0 0 80 0 0 717 0 0 (c) 2,300 0 0 9 10 11 12 500 0 0 400 0 0 (c) £1,160 contracted for. Total —Vote 15 —Auckland ... 6,402 0 0 Taranaki. Chief Office— Chief Postmaster 225 0 0