8.—7.

CLASS V.—POSTAL AND TELEGRAPH DEPARTMENT— continued.

32

Appropriations for Consolidated Fund Services.

;em. 1893-94. TELEGKAPH CABLE SUBSIDIES. £ £ 1 2 VOTE No. 31. Contingent Subsidy Proportion payable on account of reduction of intercolonial and European rates 309 4,809 4,500 Total—Vote No. 31 CONVEYANCE OP MAILS BY SEA. 7 8 i) 10 11 1 2 8 I 5 8 VOTE No. 32. Bluff and Stewart Island Services ... In vercargill and Puysegur Point ... Chatham Islands Service Blind Bay Service San Francisco Service Cost of Transit from San Francisco to New York and from"} New York to Queenstown of Homeward Mails (from > 10th October, 1891) ) Interprovincial Service (San Francisco Service) Suez Services Mail Agents and Travelling-allowance Auckland Steam Services Hokitika and Southern Ports and Westport and Karamea Services Fiji Service .New Zealand and Pacific Islands Service Great Barrier Service Pelorus Sound Service Salary, .Resident Agent, San Francisco Contingencies, Bonuses, Gratuities 230 180 200 125 16,000 11,450 3,000 2,400 1,000 870 12 L8 It 15 Iβ 17 520 1,690 1,200 250 180 100 8,000 Less estimated credits —San Francisco Service 47,395 9,350 Total—Vote No. 32 38,045 CONVEYANCE OF INLAND MAILS. 1 2 8 4 5 0 7 8 9 10 11 12 18 14 16 10 17 VOTE No. 33. Auckland Thames New Plymouth Napier Gisborne Wanganui Wellington Blenheim Nelson Westport Grey mouth Hokitika Christchurch Timaru Oamaru Dunedin .,. ... In vercargill 4,150 1,370 570 1,880 550 1,050 2,400 670 1,740 200 800 900 3,000 560 240 5,350 1,750 27,180 Total—Vote No. 33