8.—7.

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CLASS V.—POST AND TELEGRAPH DEPARTMENT—continued.

Appropriations for Consolidated Fund Services.

No. of Officers. •00-1. item. 1900-1901. POSTAL AND TELEGRAPH SALARIES— 1900-1901. continued. VOTE No. 32— continued. 40 11 Non-clerical Division — continued. 1,400 Country Postmasters New Stations. Telegraphists, Cadets, and Mes- £ 12,500 £ sengers 1,000 Increases to Salaries in excess of the Maximum Rates of Pay as set forth in the Schedules to " The Post and Telegraph Classification and Regulations Act, 1890," and Amendments thereof, and " The Post and Telegraph Department Act, 1894 " — First Division — Secretary, £700 Superintendent of Electric Lines, £650 Assistant Secretary and Inspector, £600 Linemen —First Grade Letter-carriers — First Grade Second Grade Third Grade Post-office Messengers— First Grade Second Grade 13,500 42 100 100 100 180 95 95 85 35 5 241,224 795 Less proportion of increases to Salaries provided for, but not payable during current 254,068 year 2,454 — Less estimated credits under section 41 of 1,871 "The Public Revenues Act, 1891 " 251,614 1,871 10,390 Total—Vote No. 32 TELEGRAPH CABLE SUBSIDIES. 1 2 VOTE No. 33. Contingent subsidy Proportion payable on account of reduction of intercolonial and European rates 250 780 530 Total—Vote No. 33 CONVEYANCE OF MAILS BY SEA. 1 2 3 4 5 6 VOTE No. 34. Bluff aud 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 Queenstowu of Homeward Mails Interprovincial Service (San Francisco Service) Suez Services Mail Agents and Travelling-allowance Auckland Steam Services Hokitika and Southern Ports Service Westport and Karamea and Liltle Wanganui Services Fiji Service 245 360 300 125 24,000 6,132 4,000 5,200 1,000 1,060 600 400 1,690 7 8 9 10 11 12 13