F.—l.

The several subsidised sea mail-services, the subsidy-payments for the year 1902-3, the dates when established, and the date on which each terminates are shown as follows :—

Buildings. The extensive alterations and additions to the Chief Post-office building at Dunedin are being pushed forward, and are nearly completed. The extension and alteration of the Chief Post-office building at Christehurch should not be longer delayed. This is an urgent work. The land and buildings adjoining the General Post Office, Wellington, have been acquired. A part has been fitted up as a mechanicians' workshop, and accommodation is being provided for part of the clerical staff of the clearing-room and for storage of mails. No decision has yet been come to about the plan to be adopted for enlarging the General Post Office. New offices are to be erected at Greymouth, Tauranga, Nelson, Palmerston North, and several smaller places. The public clocks for the post-offices at Ashburton, Feilding, and Oamaru are now in course of manufacture. New buildings have been erected, or are in course of erection, at Carterton, Dargaville, Gisborne, Half-moon Bay, Hunterville, Kaponga, Levin, Norsewood, Onehunga, Paparoa, Raetihi, Spit, Tapanui (Postmaster's residence), Te Puke, Wanganui, and Woodville. The following general repairs, additions, &c, were carried out during the year: Repairs, Akaroa; completion of alterations, also water-supply, &c, Auckland; erection of public clock, Bluff; renovations and repairs, Cheviot; purchase of land for storage purposes, Christehurch; painting, &c, Collingwood; fencing, Denniston; water-supply service, drainage, &c, Pacific-cable Station, Doubtless Bay; linoleum, &c, Dunedin Telegraph-office; renovations, furniture, and fittings, Gisborne; fittings, &c, Gore; renovations, furniture, &c, Hastings; repairs, Havelock; repairs, Hokitika; reclaiming site, Hunterville; purchase of house and land, Kaeo; repairs, Kumara ; purchase of site, Levin ; altering and repairing building for branch post-office, Lichfield Street, Christehurch ; additions and repairs, Lyell; alterations and additions, Manaia; erection of public clock, Masterton ; postal accommodation at railway-station, Mercer; room for mails at railway-station, New Plymouth; alterations to caretaker's quarters and erection of public-clock tower, Oamaru ; fittings, &c, at new office and alterations and repairs at old post-office building, Onehunga; drainage, Opunake; accommodation for post-office at railway-station, Orepuki; additions, Raglan; purchase of land, Rongotea; repairs, &c, Te Kopuru ; fencing, &c, Temuka ; alterations, &c, Timaru; repairs, painting, &c, Waiau; additions, Waihi; additions to Postmaster's residence, Waipukurau; alterations and additions, Wairoa; repairs, &c, Waiuku; fittings at new post-office building and erection of public clock, Wanganui; excavating cellar, furniture, &c, General Post Office; renovations and extension of water-mains, Post and Telegraph Store; enlargement of switching-room, Wellington Telephone Exchange; additions and alterations, Westport; additions, Whangarei,

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Duration of Service. Service. Annual Subsidy or Payment. Number of Mileage Voyages for When When terminated A^m> Complete established. termi ° n r able . Cost per Mile. Auckland and San Francisco Auckland and Fiji Auckland and South Pacific Islands Auckland and Devonport Auckland and Great Barrier Dargaville and Tangiteroria Helensville and Matakohe Helensville and Dargaville Horeke, Kohukohu, Rawene, Koutu, and Opononi Russell and Opua Whangaroa and Totara North Wellington, Ketu Bay, Homewood, Maori Bay (and other offices), and Havelock Wellington and Motueka Nelson, Motueka, Totaranui, Takaka, and Collingwood Westport and Karamea Westport and Little Wanganui .. Hokitika, Okarito, Bruce Bay, Paringa, Haast, Okura, and Jackson's Bay Lyttelton and Chatham Islands (including Pitt's Island) Bluff and Half-moon Bay Bluff and Te Oneroa Interprovincial service in connection with San Francisco linp £ s. d. 16,039 0 0 1,690 0 0 1,200 0 0 60 0 0 250 0 0 100 0 0 550 0 0 600 0 0* 233 0 0 April, 1871 June, 1880 June, 1885 Aug., 1863 j Oct., 1891 Nov., 1893 j I Mav, 1903 17 13 12 Dec, 1903 939 Dec, 1903 52 Dec, 1903 52 Dec, 1902 52 Dec, 1903 I 104 Dec, 1903 52 5,925 2,334 6,992 6 120 46 118} 170 j" 48 s. d. 3 2-22J 1 1-37 0 3-43 0 2-56 0 9-62 0 1003 \ /I Jan., 1881 j 0 6-05 Jan., 1889 j 1 10-40 112 0 0 25 0 0 365 0 0 Jan., 1889 | Jan., 1891 i Dec, 1891 Dec, 1903 156 Dec, 1903 52 Dec, 1903 26 16 2 183 0 10-77 1 6-41 475 0 0 125 0 0 Nov., 1902 Oct., 1903 43 Dec, 1903 52 210 130 1 0-62 0 4-44 J 400 0 0 f June, 1886 1 Jan., 1895 Jan., 1886 ; Dec, 1903 36 Dec, 1908 ; 12 Dec, 1903 6 102 I 82 j 384 1 8-62 6 2-50 600 0 0 300 0 0 Mar., 1904 , 6 1,050 0 11-43 245 0 0 300 0 Of 3,500 0 0 July, 1886 April, 1893 Nov., 1886 Dec, 1903 52 April, 1904 12 June, 1903 13 48 208 1 11-56 2 4-85 • * Subsidy increased by t Subsidy to be paid in I On basis of payment 1 £50 from 1st Jar moieties by the for outward voye mary, 19U3. Marine and the P< ige, which alone is ist and Telegraph Department! controlled by New Zealand.