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Session II. 1906. NEW ZEALAND. GOVERNMENT ADVERTISING AND PRINTING (AMOUNTS PAID FOR) DURING 1904-5.

Return to an Order of the House of Reprexentatives dated the Uth July, 1905. Ordered, " That there be laid before this House a return showing—(l) The amounts paid to each newspaper in the colony for Government advertisements, separately, for each of the years ending the 31st March, 1904 and 1905 ; (2) the amounts similarly paid for Government printing, stating to whom paid ; and (3) the amounts expended for advertising New Zealand scenery (a) in the colony and (b) outside of the colony, stating to whom paid."—(Mr. Buchanan.)

Return of Amounts paid for Advertising and Printing for the Year ended 31st March, 1905. [For return for year ended 31st March, 1904, vide H.-26, 1905.]

mount pai iid Amount pai id Amount paid ; New Zealai for Advertising ! id Scenery. Name of Newspaper. Amount paid for Advertising. i i w u i i i i mi for IIU .illi'Miin i i(ii for Amount paid for Printing. Total Amount paid. dvertisin^ g. Printing. In the Colony. Outside the Colony. _j _j Akaroa Mail; Akaroa Alexandra Herald; Alexandra South Ashburton Daily News ; Ashburton Ashburton Guardian ; Ashburton Ashburton Mail; Ashburton Auckland Star ; Auckland Auckland Weekly News ; Auckland Australasian ; Melbourne Bay of Plenty Times ; Tauranga Bruce Herald ; Milton Budget and Taranaki Weekly Herald ; New Plymouth Buller Miner ; Westport Buller Post; Murchison Canterbury Times ; Christchurch Charleston Herald ; Charleston .. Cheviot News ; Cheviot Clutha Leader ; Balclutha Colonist; Nelson Coromandel County News ; Coromandel Critic ; Adelaide Cromwell Argus ; Cromwell Daily News ; New Plymouth Daily Telegraph ; Napier Daily Telegraph ; Sydney Dannevirke Advocate ; Dannevirke. Dannevirke Daily Press ; Danne- . virke Dominican Star ; Dunedin Dunstan Times ; Clyde Egmont Post; Stratford £ s. 17 15 11 14 d. £ s. d. 6 0 i I £ s. d. £ B. d. t s. d. 17 15 6 11 14 0 79 15 3 79 15 3 74 9 81 17 367 9 181 19 3 9 6 i 239 1 I 5 : 53 0 I 6 6 25 0 0 21 19 6 74 9 3 81 17 9 606 11 0 259 19 11 21 19 6 56 10 6 42 6 6 38 11 8 23 13 42 6 36 14 0 ' 32 17 I 6 2 1 17 i 6 6 0 12 0 16 73 19 10 0 20 1 54 15 82 10 5 14 0 6 5 7 15 I 0 6 6 3 3 3 I 0 0 0 25 0 0 0 12 0 0 16 6 106 14 5 10 0 0 20 1 6 54 15 6 85 13 3 5 14 0 23 7 100 5 140 1 3 12 114 19 56 12 9 7 I II < 2 1 12 < 0 3 0 0 0 5 0 0 10 0 0 10 0 0 23 7 9 101 16 7 146 13 2 3 12 0 114 19 3 56 12 0 5 0 17 4 7 7 0 9 0 5 0 0 10 0 0 17 4 9 7 7 0