8.—7

Appropriations for Consolidated Fund Services.

CLASS V.—POST AND TELEGRAPH DEPARTMENT- continued.

6—B. 7.

41

No. of Officers. No. of Officers. 1902-3. item. 1902-3. POSTAL AND TELEGRAPH SALARIES— continued. 1902-3. £ £ VOTE No. 35— continued. Non-clerical Division — continued. 38 1,650 Country Postmasters 24,000 39 Increases to salaries under " The Post and Telegraph Department Amendment Act, 1902 " 1,500 2,243 Total —Vote No. 35 2,243 288,041 TELEGRAPH CABLE SUBSIDIES. VOTE No. 36. Contingent subsidy 10,250 Total—Vote No. 36 10,250 CONVEYANCE OF MAILS BY SEA. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 L3 14 15 it; 17 18 VOTE No. 37. Bluff and Stewart Island Services ... Invercargill, Cromarty, and Te Oneroa Chatham Islands Service Blind Bay Service San Francisco Service (three-weekly) 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 Service Westport and Karamea and Little Wanganui Services Fiji Service New Zealand and Pacific Islands Service Great Barrier Service Vancouver Service Wellington and Pelorus Sound Service Salary, Resident Agent, San Francisco (also £50 from Department of Commerce and Industries) ... Postal Union Transit Charges Gratuities for the Conveyance of Letters and Printed Matter Landing and shipping Mails 245 300 300 125 16,000 6,132 4,500 4,000 1,000 1,080 600 400 1,690 1,200 250 200 365 19 20 50 900 21 11,000 600 Total—Vote No. 37 50,937