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Amounts paid for Advertising during the undermentioned Financial Years.

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Names of Newspapers. 1884-85. 1885-86. 1886-87. Total. 1887-88. 1883-89. 1889-90. Total. 1890-91. 1891-92. 1892-93. Total. 1893-94. Grand Totals. Akaroa Mail Ashburton Guardian (see Ashburton Mail, &c). Ashburton Mail (including Ashburton Guardian) Aucklund Evening Star (including New Zealand Farmer and New Zealand Graphic Auckland Free Press Auckland Labour Auckland Weekly News (see New Zealand Herald). Australasian Machinery Market, &c, Register Australasian Union Shipping Gazette Bay of Plenty Times Bruce Herald Brunner News Budget and Taranaki Weekly Herald Buller Miner Buller News Bush Advocate Cambridge News .. Canterbury Farmers' Co-operative Journal Canterbury Times (see Lyttelton Times). Catholic Times Charleston Herald Chronicle (Tapanui) Clutha County Gazette Clutha Leader Colonist (Nelson) Coromandel Argus Coromandel County News Cromweli Argus Daily News (New Plymouth) Daily Telegraph (Napier) Duns tan Herald Dunstan Times Echo (Kamo) Educational and Literary Monthly (Dunedin) Egmont Chronicle Egmont Settler Egmont Star Eketahuna and Pahiatua Mail Ellcsmere Chronicle £ s. a. 23 16 9 £ s. a. 12 19 9 £ s. d. 38 15 1 £ s. d. 75 11 7 £ s. d. 16 7 0 £ s. d. 14 14 0 £ s. d. 23 11 6 £ s. a. 54 12 6 £ s. a. 31 14 5 £ s. d. 8 17 0 £ s. d. 11 4 3 £ s. d 51 15 8 £ s. d. 17 12 3 £ s. a. 199 12 0 123 11 0 134 7 6 156 11 6 414 10 0 119 17 8 94 1 0 110 7 2 324 5 10 140 2 0 83 10 3 72 15 2 296 7 5 121 1 9 1,156 5 0 503 17 0 605 12 0 544 4 3 1,653 13 3 364 5 9 253 11 2 248 14 6 866 11 5 347 16 9 309 18 7 293 0 0 950 15 4 434 19 7 3,905 19 7 0 12 6 2 10 0 0 12 6 2 10 0 0 12 6 2 10 0 1 11 6 1 11 6 80 17 6 23 2 7 22 2 3 64 8 3 37 19 6 4 13 0 4 2 0 3 7 6 13 1 6 47"5 5 22 9 3 4 3 3 5 6 0 8 12 0 192 11 2 83 11 4 26 15 3 8 5 3 18 18 3 30 8 0 5 17 0 32 16 9 23 13 0 1 10 0 2 10 0 8 5 7 21 3 6 42**6 6 11 6 0 3 18 3 0 0 16 16 9 3 9 0 42 0 9 27 15 9 14 4 6 5 17 0 117 4 0 62 14 9 15 14 6 5 11 8 14 9 7 48 5 3 37 3 9 2 3 6 5 14 0 40 3 4 16 4 6 23 10 2 29 8 9 15 18 0 37 9 8 21 4 11 25 1 0 28 17 5 1 11 0 10 15 4 1 16 0 49 7 9 90 17 0 57 3 6 89 17 3 1 11 0 18 5 4 3 8 0 102 5 3 28 15 1 33 17 9 46 14 5 0 16 6 35 3 0 5 17 0 429 7 3 237 7 4 179 1 5 16 4 5 86 16 2 82 1 3 195 13 6 46 3 9 5 14 0 10"4 9 8 14 6 3 4 0 10 5 0 33 14 9 0 16 6 • • •• 1112 9 7 10 0 1 12 0 41 4 9 56"4 6 6 0 0 13 # 7 0 24*13 3 44 0 3 1*7 0 5 14 0 •• 14 0 0 15*"9 6 10 16 0 40"5 6 3 10 0 7 3 6 6 7 6 10 0 0 10 11 0 17 3 6 20 8 6 14 18 6 6 10 0 17 10 0 12 6 i 16 12 6 5 9 6 3 9 0 2 18 6 5 15 6 73 14 2 49 1 0 13 2 0 3 9 0 13 6 9 45 1 3 223 13 8 10 9 3 5 2 9 76 13 9 78 18 9 3 9 0 114 15 11 223 2 3 775 0 8 2 2 0 52 1 9 177 1 2 392 13 4 1,141 19 6 4 4 6 177 0 6 2 5 6 0 6 0 11 12 6 26 10 6 113 19 5 15 14 0 21 12 0 57 5 4 11 13 0 24 5 3 117 15 0 38 19 6 72 7 9 288 19 9 I 17' 7 6 32 9 3 80 16 2 15 11 9 20 3 6 38 10 7 2 2 0 6 7 6 17 3 9 30 19 6 86 1 8 10 0 0 25 4 6 67 4 6 42 19 3 77 17 3 186 11 3 2 2 0 17 9 6 46 2 0 106 6 10 363 15 9 3 3 6 42 6 9 6 9 6 24 10 6 83 13 0 3 18 9 14 15 3 66 6 6 19 10 5 27 16 0 75 16 0 38 10 3 11 0 6 143 1 10 32 17 0 0 15 0 136 13 9 5 12 6 25 2 0 31 0 0 125 13 9 110 19 17 0 5 12 6 96 9 3 42 15 6 405 9 4 110 75 9 6 5 14 0 14 11 9 31 17 5 205 17 7 3 3 6 21 0 9 5 8 0 14 6 6 43 9 11 71 16 6 6 19 6 11 19 6 73 2 3 124 10 0 6 7 6 49 18 10 67 19 5 8 6 6 4 11 0 53 17 7 83 12 6 15 6 0 22 18 0 176 18 8 276 1 11 13 13 9 11 11 11 66 12 4 96 12 6 32 - 8 0 23 - 4 6 13 9 6 7 16 6 13**4 0 6"l 6 2 5 6 ls"o 9 34"6 3 2 5 6 2418 0 0 - 6 0 0 - 6 0 17 17 6 1717 6 3 9 9 4 9 3 10'ii 6 110 15 9 3 4 0 0 12 2 6 29 10 6 9 10 3 12 2 6 2 *6 0 12 4 6 60 7 9 20 8 0 1 10 0 77 18 0 42 6 0 8 8 9 12 4 6 140 11 9 62 14 0 12 3 9 6 5 0 6912 6 12 4 6 228 1 9 92 1 6 25 4 6 18 7 6- - 2 *5 0 6 5 0 310 6 •• .. i I • ■ 1 .. I .. I