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CLASS V.—POST AND TELEGRAPH DEPARTMENT— continued.

s—B. 7.

Appropriations for Consolidated Fund Services

No. of Officers. Item. 1897-98. POSTAL AND TELEGRAPH SALARIES— 1897-98. continued. 18 7-98. VOTE No. 31— continued. Non-clerical Division— continued. 1,272 Country Postmasters New Stations, Telegraphists, Cadets, and Messengers £ 38 39 11,000 1,500 12,500 Less proportion of increases to Salaries provided for, but not payable during current year 224,846 1,948 Less estimated credits under section 41 of 1,623 " The Public Revenues Act, 1891" 222,898 1,623 6,300 Total —Vote No. 31 216,591 TELEGRAPH CABLE SUBSIDIES. 1 2 VOTE No. 32. Contingent Subsidy Proportion payable on account of reduction of intercolonial and European rates 120 1,800 Total —Vote No. 32 1,920 CONVEYANCE OF MAILS BY SEA. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 VOTE No. 33. Bluff and Stewart Island Services ... Invercargill, Cromarty, and Te Oneroa Chatham Islands Service Blind Bay Service ... .. .... San Francisco Service .... Cost of Transit from San Francisco to New Tork and from New Tork to Queenstown of Homeward Mails Interprovincial Service (San Francisco Service) Suez Services Mai] 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 ... Vancouver mail-service '... Cost of transit from Vancouver to New Tork, and New Tork to Queenstown, of homeward mails Interprovincial service (Vancouver service), Mail Agents and travelling-allowance Penalty remitted in respect of late arrival of mail-steamer " Monowai " at San Francisco, February, 1896 Salary, Resident Agent, San Francisco Postal Union Transit Charges Contingencies, Gratuities, &c. 300 • 360 300 125 18,250 6,122 3,000 3,400 1,000 900 800 1,690 1,200 250 180 2,608 18 838 950 19 200 30 300 11,500 20 21 22 Less estimated credits—San Francisco Service 54,303 10,650 Total—Vote No. 33 43,653