8.—7

CLASS V.—POST AND TELEGRAPH DEPARTMENT— continued.

s—B. 7.

33

Appropriations for Consolidated Fund Services

No. of Officers. item. POSTAL AND TELEGBAPH SALARIES— .896-97. continued. 18' '6-97. 1896-97. VOTE No. 31— continued. Non-clerical Division — continued. 41 Introduction of Sixpenny Telegrams— continued. Increases on Promotion — 12 Letter-carriers promoted to Cadets: 4 at £15, 1 at £10, 7 at £5 (for 10 months) 4 Telephon e Exchange Clerks promoted: 2 to Telegraphists, 1 to Cadetship, 1 to Assistant Counter Clerk—1 at £15, 1 at £10, 2 at £5 (for 10 months) 1 Despatch Clerk to Telegraphist, at £10 (for 10 months) 10 Distributors promoted: 7 to Cadets, 1 to Telephone Exchange Clerk, 1 to Despatch Clerk, 1 to Assistant Despatch Clerk—3 at £10, 7 at £5 (for 10 months) 67 Telegraph Message-boys promoted : 37 to Cadets, 9 to Letter-carriers, 2 to Telephone Exchange Clerk, 1 to Post-office Messenger, 1 to Assistant Despatch Clerk, 16 to Distributors, 1 to Sorter—1 at £24, 5 at £19, 5 at £16,17 at £14, 4 at £9, 10 at £6,1 at £5, 24 at £4 (for 10 months) ... Lodging-allowance to 32 Cadets: 26 at £26, 6 at £13 (for 10 months) 87 29 8 54 529 628 3,264 214,674 1,565 Less estimated credits under section 41 of 1,565 "The Public Eevenues Act, 1891" 5,500 Total —Vote No. 31 ... 209,17' TELEGKAPH CABLE SUBSIDIES. 1 2 VOTE No. 32. Contingent Subsidy Proportion payable on account of reduction of intercolonial and European rates 309 3,600 Total—Vote No. 32 3,909 CONVEYANCE OF MAILS BY SEA. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 0 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 G-reat Barrier Service Pelorus Sound Service Salary, .Resident Agent, San Francisco Postal Union Transit Charges Contingencies, Gratuities, <fcc. 250 360 300 125 18,000 13,131 3,000 3,500 1,000 922 12 18 14 15 Iβ 17 18 670 1,690 1,200 250 150 30 250 11,500 Less estimated credits—San Francisco Service 56,328 10,500 Total—Vote No. 33 45,828