8.-7.

CLASS XII.—WORKING RAILWAYS— continued.

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Appropriations for Consolidated Fund Services.

item. 19' 10-1. WOKKING EAILWAYS— continued. 28 VOTE No. 61— continued. Miscellaneous— continued. Increases to be paid to Employes in excess of the maximum rates of pay as set forth in the Schedules to the Government Railways Department Classification Acts, 1896 and 1897,— First Division— Special allowance of £10 per annum to £ Shorthand-writers, Class 1 ... 40 Second Division— Increase of 6d. per day to the following members: Blacksmiths and Boilermakers in Sub-classes 1 and 2, Class 2, Locomotive, and to Blacksmiths in Sub-classes 2 and 3, Class 3, Maintenance, from 25th June, 1900 400 Special allowance at rate of 6d. per day to Enginemen,Firemen, and Guards for time worked on Bimutaka Incline ... 130 570 29 Increase of 6d. per day for all Employes in receipt of 6s. 6d. per day; for Gangers in receipt of 7s. 6d per day ; for Junior Platelayers in Belaying Gangs ; and for the following members of the Second Division in Class 3, Maintenance, in receipt of 7s. per day:— Bridgemen, Sub-class 1; Sub-gangers, Sub-class 5, Grade 6 ; Platelayers in Eelaying Gangs, and Platelayers on Special Lengths, Sub-class 6, Grade 2; and Labour-gangers, Sub-class 7, Grade 4 12,394 13,707 Less estimated credits under section 41 of " The Public Eevenues Act, 1891" 1,095,313 26,000 Total —Vote No. 61 1,069,313 TOTAL OF CLASS XII. £1,06 313