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CLASS V.—POST AND TELEGRAPH DEPARTMENT— continued.

33

Appropriations for Consolidated Fund Services.

Item. 18' '5-96. TELEGRAPH CABLE SUBSIDIES. VOTE No. 32. Contingent Subsidy Proportion payable on account of reduction of intercolonial and European rates £ £■ 1 2 309 3,600 Total—Vote No. 32 3,909 \ CONVEYANCE OF MAILS BY SEA. 1 2 3 4 ■5 6 7 8 9 10 11 VOTE No. 33. Bluff and Stewart Island Services ... Invercargill, Cromarty, 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 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 Postal Union Transit Charges Contingencies, Bonuses, Gratuities 250 300 200 125 18,000 6,536 3,000 2,900 1.000 922 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 670 1,690 1,200 250 150 30 500 10,500 Less estimated credits —San Francisco Service 48,223 10,400 37,823 Total—Vote No. 33 ... ... CONVEYANCE OF INLAND MAILS. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 VOTE No. 34. Auckland Thames New Plymouth Napier Gisborne Wanganui Wellington Blenheim Nelson Westport Greymouth Hokitika Christchurch Timaru Oamaru Dunedin Invercargill 4,412 1,475 634 1,952 633 1.965 3,988 836 2,311 267 1,162 893 3,398 725 292 6,084 1,819 Total —Vote No. 34 32,846 5—B. 7.