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No. 6. Number of Vouchers examined for other Departments, the Amount of Deductions made, and the Total Amount passed for Payment, during the Year 1890.

No. 7. Return of Stamp-printing, from 1st April, 1890, to 31st March, 1891.

No. 8. List of Publications destboyed in the late Ere at the Old Government Printing Office. Number of Copies. 1,044. Polynesian Mythology and Ancient Traditional History of the New Zealand Race. 374. White's Ancient History of the Maori, vol. 2. 220. White's Ancient History of the Maori, vol. 3. 276. White's Ancient History of the Maori, vol. 4. 405. White's Ancient History of the Maori, vol. 5. 818. Handbook of New Zealand Pishes (R. A. A. Sherrin). 1,029. Tarawera Eruption (S. Percy Smith). 84. Tarawera Eruption (Professor Hutton). 1,274. Insects Noxious to Agriculture and Plants in New Zealand (W. M. Maskell). 406. The State (J. H. Pope). 718. Parliamentary Debates (1864-66), cloth. 15. Parliamentary Debates, vol. 57, cloth. 181. Sets Appendices, 1887. 68. Indigenous Grasses of New Zealand (John Buchanan). 169. Statutes, 1877. 8. Statutes, 1878. 53. Statutes, 1882. 513. Statutes, 1884. 574. Statutes, 1886. 1,131. Statutes, 1887. 469. Land Acts, Bvo. 819. Maori Acts (pamphlets), 1886. 918. Miners' Guides (H. A. Gordon). 34. Mining Handbook. 140. Mining Industry Report for 1887. 108. Handbook of New Zealand (Sir J. Vogel). 562. Aryan Maori (E. Tregear). 451.' Kermadee Islands (pamphlet). 15. Freeholders of New Zealand. 9. Commerce and Resources of New Zealand (G. W. Griffin). 164. Prize Essays on Colonial Industries. Approximate Cost of Paper. —Preparation, nil; printing (1,300 copies), £5 2s. 6d.

By Authority: George Didsbuby, Government Printer, Wellington.—lB9l. Price 6d.]

Period. Number. Deductions. Amount passed. - Examined during the month of January „ February „ March April „ „ May „ „ June July „ August September .. „ „ October „ „ November .. „ December .. 318 240 193 312 190 218 228 255 193 302 231 467 £ s. d. 9 14 2 9 11 5 43 16 1 .11 4 4 6 13 11 9 4 3 13 1 2 16 18 3 4 14 10 26 8 3 8 8 4 23 5 3 & s. d. 916 1 2 698 9 11 596 10 9 904 15 7 606 12 6 636 13 2 561 9 1 633 14 2 481 9 3 1,797 16 6 1,075 11 7 1,857 15 7 Totals 3,147 183 0 3 10,766 19 3

Description of Stamps. No. of Sheets. No. of Stamps. Value. 'ostage and revenue "ost-cards 'osfcal notes Newspaper-wrappers ieer-duty )uty-stamps „ special iamoan stamps ... lovernment Life Insurance 133,430 42,546 30,657 34,951 7,449 3,832 15 2,594 3,992 32,023,180 893,450 225,000 2,407,716 208,572 460,380 15 312,720 958,080 £ s. a. 141,825 10 0 3,722 14 2 1,534 8 2 5,076 7 6 65,856 7 0 546,294 0 0 36,986 0 0 6,065 15 0 9,195 15 0 Totals 259,466 37,489,113 816,556 16 It