8.—7.

Appropriations for Consolidated Fund Services.

CLASS III.—POST AND TELEGRAPH DEPARTMENT— continued.

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tern let! I No. of Officers. i. POSTAL AND TELEGRAPH SALARIES— 1! 1907-8. continued. •07-8. VOTE No. a—continued. £ £ Non-ci.kuical Division— continued HI 40 Contribution to Railway Department tor combined Poat-Telegraph-Bailway Offices ... ... 10,600 41 1 2 8 I 5 0 7 8 9 10 11 112 13 II 15 10 17 18 lit 20 21 2.037 Country Postmasters ... .. 36,542 j H 2.998 3,264 Total —Votk No.. 9 ... ... CONVEYANCE OK MAILS BY SEA. VOTK No. 10 Auckland Steam Services ... ... .. . 966 Ulind Bay .Service ... . .. i>9 HIuff'and Stewart [aland Services . ... 800 Chatham Islands Service ... .. 800 Cost of Transit from San Francisco to New York and from New York to Queen etown of Homeward Mails . 6,850 Fiji Service ... ■ ... ... 1,690 Gratuities for the Conveyance of Letters and Printed Matter . ... . 24,300 Great Barrier Service ... .. . 250 Havelock and Picton (Pelorus Sound) Service .. 98 Hokitika and Southern Porte Service . . 800 lnvercargill or Bluff and Cromarty ... .. 275 Landing and shipping Mails ... .. .. 200 Mail-service between New Zealand and Australia .. 1.2,385 Miscellaneous Foreign Transit Charges ,., .. 600 Xew Zealand and Pacific Islands Service . 1.200 Salary. Resident Agent, San Francisco (also £50 from Department of Industries aud Commerce) . 50 Vancouver Service ... ... ... ... 4,000 Suez Services ... ... ... ; 8,000 Wellington and Pelorus Sound Service ... ... I) .. Wellington-Motueka Service . . ) Weslport and Karamea and Little Wanganui Services . i 160 412,998 1 2 :i I 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 112 13 II 15 10 56,218 17 18 lit 20 21 03,213 Less estimated credit! under section 41 of" The Public Revenues Act, 1S9L " ... . 7,000 Total —Voti No io . 1 2 :i 4 •"> f. 7 1 2 8 4 5 6 7 H 9 10 LI L2 13 (ONVEYANCE OF INLAND MAILS. VOTE No. 11 Auckland . 9,770 Thames 2 ,2(>2 New Plymouth I .770 Napier . 1,201 (iieborne 2 ,lS(i Wanganui . ~> ,172 Wellington l> .707 Blenheim I .468 Nelson 3,01-2 Westport . 466 (iieymouth 547 Hokitika 1 ,259 Ohristchurch . 5,702 K Q LO 11 12 |8