8.—7.

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Appropriations for Consolidated Fund Services

CLASS V.—POST AND TELEGRAPH DEPARTMENT—continued.

JNO. ot No. of Officers. Item. Officers. POSTAL AND TELEGBAPH SALARIES— 1899-1900. continued. 1899 •-1900. 1899-1900. VOTE No. 32— continued. £ £ 38 39 Non-clerical Division — continued. 1,350 Country Postmasters New Stations, Telegraphists, Cadets, and Mes12,200 sengers 1,000 13,200 Less proportion of increases to Salaries provided for, but not payable during current year 241,896 1,702 —: Less estimated credits under section 41 of 1,740 "The Public Revenues Act, 1891" 240,194 9,940 j Total—Vote No. 32 230,25 TELEGRAPH CABLE SUBSIDIES. 1 2 VOTE No. 33. Contingent Subsidy Proportion payable on account of reduction of intercolonial and European rates 230 1,200 Total—Vote No. 33 ... 1,430 CONVEYANCE OF MAILS BY SEA. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 VOTE No. 34. 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 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 Vancouver "Service (to cover payments not made within financial year) Wellington and Pelorus Sound Service ... Salary, Eesident Agent, San Francisco ... ... Postal Union Transit Charges ... ... | Gratuities for the conveyance of letters and printed matter 300 360 300 125 22,500 6,016 4,000 4,650 1,000 900 12 13 14 15 800 1,690 1,200 250 16 17 ' 18 19 1,500 260 30 900 20 21 Conveyance of Inland Mails .. Contingencies (landing and shipping mails) 13,700 700 300 Less estimated credits —San Francisco Service ... 61,481 11,200 Total—Vote No 34 ...