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CLASS V.—POST AND TELEGRAPH DEPARTMENT— continued.

Appropriations for Consolidated Fund Services.

No. of Officers. item. 1898-99. POSTAL AND TELEGRAPH SALARIES— 1898-99. continued. 18' '8-99. VOTE No. 31— continued. Non-cleeical Ditision — continued. 1,350 Country Postmasters New Stations, Telegraphists, Cadets, and Messen- £ 38 39 11,600 gers 1,000 12,600 Less proportion of increases to Salaries provided for, but not payable during current 233,486 1,846 year Less estimated credits under section 41 of " The 1,692 Public Revenues Act, 1891" 231,640 7,300 Total —Vote No. 31 224,34i 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 VOTE No. 33. Bluff and Stewart Island Services ... Invercargill, Cromarty, and Te Oneroa Chatham Islands Service Blind Bay Service San Francisco Service Vancouver Service ... ... ... ... Cost of Transit from San Francisco to New York and from New York to Queenstown of Homeward Mails Cost of Transit from Vancouver to New York, and New York to Queenstown, of Homeward Mails ... Interprovincial Service (San Francisco Service) Interprovincial Service (Vancouver 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 Wellington and Pelorus Sound Service Salary, Resident Agent, San Francisco Postal Union Transit Charges Contingencies, Gratuities, &c. 300 360 300 125 20,000 7,500 6,016 800 3,000 3,000 1,000 1,500 900 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 800 1,690 1,200 250 180 30 500 11,500 60,951 Less estimated credits —San Francisco Service 10,450 Less amount struck off in Committee of Supply 50,501 1 Total—Vote No. 33