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TABLE L. DEBTOR and CREDITOR STATEMENT.

* Of this amount, £1,102 4s. 7d. was collected in postage stamps. By Authority: Geoegb Didsbtjby, Government Printer, Wellington.—lB79. Price Is.]

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Db. Nj Total Cost of Maintenance of Stations Total Cost of Maintenance of Lines £ s. d. 79.501 ° 5 £ s. d. Ce. By Cash Receipts as under: — Ordinary and Press Telegrams* Incidental Receipts not included in tables : — Excess on Ordinary Telegrams Amount collected from Government Annuities Department for Telegrams transmitted ... Collections for copies of Telegrams, &c. Amount collected by Postal Department for Money Order Telegrams Proceeds of Sales of Condemned Line, Horses, Sundry Material, Old Furniture, &c. £ s. d. £ s. <•- 81,435 H 4 17,299 7 10 96,801 8 3 66 12 9 22 8 7 16 o 6 730 7 o 441 11 2 Rent of Press Wires during last Session of Parliament Special Wire Subsidies for Press purposes ... Recoveries on account of Midnight Cable Service 277 1 8 1,277 ° ° 2,014 13 5 2,4S9 S 6 167 10 5 Amount received on account of Guaranteed Stations 230 o 4 Balance—being Receipts in excesi of Expenditure Value of General Government Telegrams... 85,402 o 2 i5>527 S 6 26,926 13 7 £111,328 13 9 £112,328 13 9