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CLASS V.—POSTAL AND TELEGRAPH DEPARTMENT— continued.

Appropriations for Consolidated Fund Services.

1891-92. TELEGEAPH CABLE SUBSIDIES. £ VOTE No. 29. Contingent Subsidy Total—Vote No. 29 309 309 * TELEGEAPH CABLE EEPAIES. VOTE No. 30. Telegraph Cable Bepairs Total—Vote No. 30 3,000 3,000 TELEGEAPH EXTENSION. VOTE No. 31. Telegraph Extension Total—Vote No. 31 CONVEYANCE OF MAILS BY SEA. 3,000 3,000 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 0 10 VOTE No. 32. Bluff and Stewart Island Chatham Islands Service Blind Bay Service San Francisco Service Half Cost Transit from San Francisco to New York of Homeward Mails Interprovincial Service (San Francisco Service) Suez Services Mail Agents and Travelling-allowance Auckland Steam Service Hokitika and Southern Ports and Westport and Karainea Services Fiji Service New Zealand and Pacific Islands Service Direct Steam Service to Plymouth Interprovincial Service (Direct Steam Service) Great Barrier Mail-service Pelorus Sound Mail-service Contingencies, Bonuses, Gratuities 150 200 150 15,258 1,922 3,000 GOO 600 793 11 12 18 14 15 Iβ 17 520 1,690 1,200 8,605 3,000 200 200 7,500 Less estimated credits —San Francisco Service, £9,533; Direct Service, £6,164 ... 45,588 29,891 15,697 Total—Vote No. 32 CONVEYANCE OF INLAND MAILS. 1 2 3 4 5 6 VOTE No. 33. Auckland Thames New Plymouth Napier Gisborne Wanganui 3,786 1,426 424 1,746 543 734