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CLASS IX.—CUSTOMS DEPARTMENT.

Appropriations for Consolidated Fund Services.

Salaries. Other Charges. Total. £ £ £ Vote 43. —Customs Offices and Services 30,772 5,714 36,481 ,, 44. —Customs: Miscellaneous Services 3,960 3,961 TOTAL OF CLASS IX. 30,772 9,674 40,44i Item. 1903-4. CUSTOMS OFFICES AND SEEVICE8. 1903-4. Total number of officers ... 158 VOTE No. 43. Salaries — Head Office— Secretary and Inspector of Customs, and Secretary, Marine Department Chief Clerk 3 Clerks : 1 at £170, 1 at £145, 1 at £115 Clerk (Audit) Writer (Audit) (including extra-duty pay) Cadet at £95 Messenger and Storeman Customs Expert Auckland — Collector Landing Surveyor First Clerk 5 Clerks: 1 at £160, 1 at £150, 1 at £125, 1 at £115, lat£105 5 Cadets: 1 at £95, 1 at £85, 1 at £75, 1 at £50,1 at £40 Clerk and Warehouse Keeper ... 7 Landing Waiters and Examining Officers : 1 at £260, 1 at £250, 1 at £240, 1 at £225, 1 at £200, 2 at £180 Tide Surveyor and Examining Officer 4 Lockers : 1 at £183. 1 at £175, 2 at £164 3 Lockers (Writers) at £187 ... Messenger at 7s. 6d. per day Boatman at 8s. 6d. per day Whangarei — Coastwaiter (also Postal Officer) Whanqaroa — Coastwaiter Thames — Coastwaiter New Plymouth — Collector and Examining Officer Clerk Officer at Waitara Wanganui — Collector and Examining Officer Clerk and Landing Waiter 2 Cadets : 1 at £95, 1 at £60 ... 700 400 480 300 300 95 140 800 600 385 300 655 345 190 1,535 230 686 561 138 156 8 50 4 50 5 50 6 350 115 75 375 270 155