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Appropriations for Consolidated Fund Services,

CLASS III.—POST AND TELEGRAPH DEPARTMENT— continued.

No. Of Officers. No. of Officers. Item. n. 1906-7. POSTAL AND TELEGRAPH SALARIES— — continued. 1906-7. 1906-7. 38 VOTE No. 9—continued. Non-clerical Division — continued. Contribution to Railway Department for combined Post-Telegraph-Railway Offices £ £ 10,600 39 1,937 Country Postmasters ... ... 34,000 2,922 375,050 ——— Total—Vote No. 9 375,05i CONVEYANCE OF MAILS BY SEA. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 VOTE No. 10. Auckland Steam Services Blind Bay Service Bluff and Stewart Island Services .. Chatham Islands Service Cost of Transit from San Francisco to New York and from New York to Queenstown of Homeward Mails Fiji Service Gratuities for the Conveyance of Letters and Printed Matter Great Barrier Service Havelock and Bulwer (Pelorus Sound) Service Hokitika and Southern Ports Service Interprovincial Service (San Francisco Service) Invercargill and Te Oneroa Landing and shipping Mails Lyttelton and Pigeon Bay Service Mail Agents and Travelling-allowance Mail-service between New Zealand and Australia Miscellaneous Foreign Transit Charges New Zealand and Pacific Islands Service Salary, Resident Agent, San Francisco (also £50 from Department of Commerce and Industries) San Francisco Service (three-weekly) Suez Services Wellington and Pelorus Sound Service Wellington-Motueka Service Wellington-Motueka Mail-service (3 months at £300) Westport and Karamea and Little Wanganui Services 1.115 100 245 300 6,132 1,690 16,715 250 138 600 4,000 175 200 225 1,000 1,000 600 1.2u0 20 21 22 23 24 25 50 20,000 1.200 } 620 75 400 Total—Vote No. 10 ... ... . 58,030 CONVEYANCE OF INLAND MAILS. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 L0 .1 .2 3 VOTE No. 11. Auckland Thames New Plymouth Napier Gisborne Wanganui Wellington Blenheim Nelson Westport Greymouth Hokitika Christchurch 8,880 2,030 1,700 3,770 1,750 5,320 8,490 1,165 1,940 1,315 870 1,385 5,250