47

B.—l

STATEMENT in Detail of the EXPENDITURE for MISCELLANEOUS SERVICES— contd.

PUBLIC ACCOUNTS, 1900-1901

Brought forward CLASS IV.—MINISTER OP JUSTICE—continued. Vote No. 29—Miscellaneous Services — continued. Item 6 —Extra clerical assistance, copying, interpreting, &c. .. Item 7 —Fees to Patent Office agents Item 8—Fidelity guarantee premiums Item 9 —Fuel, light, water, and cleaning Item 10—Further compensation to P. A. Connolly, late bailiff at Naseby, as recommended by the Public Petitions Committee Item 11 —Gratuity to J. Outram, in settlement of claim to pension Item 12—Payment to Survey Department for lithographing, preparation of plans, &o. Item 13—Payment to Mrs. James Mackay, wife of James Mackay, formerly Native Land-purchase Officer, Stipendiary Magistrate, and Warden Item 14—Purchase of reports and treatises for Crown Law Office Item 15—Subscriptions to telephone exchanges Item 16—Travelling allowances and expenses Item 17—Contingencies— Annual certificates as barristers, &c, issued to Crown Law Officers Ballot-boxes, District Court, Kumara Clocks and repairs to clocks Copying-press Counsel for defenoe in murder cases Draping Courthouses, &c, Queen's funeral Despatch-bags for Stipendiary Magistrates, &c. Expenses of Magistrate holding inquiry re hauling-down of Austrian flag Freight and insurance on patents specifications Legal expenses Overcoat for messenger, cartage of stationery, &o., and sundry items under £1 Postages on foreign correspondence (Patent Office) Railway pass Refreshments to jurors, District Courts Refund of stamps accidentally destroyed by Clerk of Court, Te Awamutu, before being used Removing telephones, &c. Salary of nightwatchman, Coromandel Salary of W. Jolliffe, Acting Law Draughtsman Share of expenses administering licensing laws, paid to certain local bodies Shrubs for Court grounds, &c. Typewriters, mimeographs, cyolostyles, and supplies £ s. d. £ s. d. £ s. d. 937 5 9 847 6 4 41 5 0 197 12 1 1,327 13 3 60 0 0 150 0 0 545 12 3 100 0 0 42 1 6 310 17 3 384 5 8 12 12 0 3 5 0 7 16 2 10 0 42 2 0 7 4 0 10 7 6 7 10 6 15 4 11 9 8 40 18 8 1 16 6 30 0 0 3 3 0 15 0 0 3 17 6 6 0 0 123 7 9 25 2 10 10 0 0 137 19 0 507 13 3 Total net expenditure, Vote No. 29 £5,451 12 4 CLASS V.—POSTMASTER-GENERAL :— Vote No. 38—Miscellaneous Services :— Item 1—Stationery, &c. Item 2—Special allowance to telegraph messengers during first year's service Item 3 —Light, fuel, and water Item 4—Telephone-fees to non-permanent telephonists Item 5 —Cash, &c, burnt in — Hamilton office fire Opitonui „ Clinton „ 8,839 13 11 640 0 0 4,431 4 5 10,267 9 7 228 3 11 223 18 1 4 16 3 456 18 3 Item 6 —Compassionate allowance to widow of late W. M. Nutt, telegraph lineman (additional) Item 7 —Compassionate allowance to Mrs. Bessie Warner Item 8 —Refund of payment of penalty forfeited by sureties (Havelock-Pelorus Sound mail-service) Item 9 —Miscellaneous,— Advertising and printing Carriage of private bags Cleaning and scavenging Money-order and Savings-bank fees to country Postmasters.. Allowances (tellers, interest, house, forage, R.T.P.O., shipping, &c.) Postal Inspectors' travelling-expenses Overtime Parcels-post expenses Repairs, fittings, new buildings, &c. Contingencies Travelling-, removal-, and relieving-expenses Uniform clothing Temporary letter-carriers and messengers 112 10 1 332 8 5 2,202 4 4 529 3 2 70 0 0 80 0 0 25 0 0 3,793 2 5 727 2 2 2,183 0 7 2,731 10 7 2,912 3 1 2,872 14 6 5,051 1 9 1,718 13 11 3,686 17 8 28,852 12 8 Less recoveries.. 53,662 18 10 2,000 0 0 Total net expenditure, Vote No. 38 £51,662 18 10