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CLASS V.—POSTMASTER-GENERAL AND COMMISSIONER OF TELEGRAPHS— continued.

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Appropriations for Consolidated Fund Services.

:em. 18 iO-81. POSTAL DEPARTMENT— continued. £ s. d £ s. d. 1 2 3 4 5 6 I 8 9 10 11 12 18 14 VOTE No. 36. Conveyance or Mails by Sea— Contingencies, Bonuses, Gratuities Chatham Islands Service Interprovincial Services West Coast, Middle Island Service Blind Bay Service Tauranga and Opotiki Service ... San Francisco Service Bonus, &c, San Francisco Service Suez Service Intercolonial Service Mail Agents and Travelling Allowance Auckland Steam Services Westport and Karamea Service Fiji Service 2,500 150 5,600 ,1,900 240 203 32.500 2,500 9,000 4,157 1,750 956 225 2.470 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Total—Vote No. 36 ... 64,148 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 VOTE No. 37. Conveyance op Inland Mails— Auckland Thames New Plymouth Napier Wanganui Wellington. Blenheim Nelson Westport Grreymouth Hokitika Christchurch Timaru Oamaru Dunedin Invercargill 5,300 0 0 320 0 0 830 0 0 3,000 0 0 375 0 0 3,900 0 0 800 0 0 650 0 0 900 0 0 1,250 0 0 1,450 0 0 4,350 0 0 1,050 0 0 300 0 0 7,000 0 0 900 0 0 Less amount of reduction in Committee of Supply 32,375 o' 0 1,400 0 0 Total —Vote No. 37 ... 30,975 0 0 VOTE No. 38. Caeetage of Mails by Railway— Carriage of Mails by Railway, under special arrangement 700 0 0 Total— Vote No. 38 ... 700 0 0 VOTE No. 39. Postal Contingencies— Contingencies Less proportion chargeable against Savings Bank 5,000 0 0 500 0 0 4,500 0 0