8.—7.

Appropriations for Consolidated Fund Services.

CLASS III.—POST AND TELEGRAPH DEPARTM ENT -continued.

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Item. ejn. 1907-8. CONVEYANCE OF INLAND MAILS— continued - II 15 16 17 VOTE No. 11— continued. £ £ 14 Timaru ■•■ ■•■ ••• l > 7! > 6 15 • Oamaru • •• ° 05 L6 Dunedin ... • |> fil-i 17 Invercargill • 8,241 59,9:37 IN 19 18 Wanganui Etiver (Pipiriki-Taumaruniri) service, from 29tli April, l!)07, ni £00 per annum ... • **-> 1!) New Services, &c. (all districts) ... ... 514 5G0 Total— Votk No. 11 ... 60,497 CA Kill A UK OF MAILS BY RAILWAY VOTE No. 12. 1 j Carriage of Mails by Special Trains ... . 3.OIK) 2 Conveyance of Ordinary Mails by Railway ... ...I 46,GS>9 I 49,690 Less coat of postage, telegrams, telephones, and private boxes, Ac ... ■•■ 7,265 Total Votk No. 12 ... 42,484 MAINTENANCE OF TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE LINES. VOTE No. 13. 1 Allowance to Superintendent of Electric Lines to cover expenses of visit to Europe, <fcc. .. •■• <>50 2 Extra Labour ... ... • 20,000 3 Material for Repairs ... ■■• 20,000 4 Travelling-expenses of Inspectors and Linemen ... | 7.000 5 Upkeep of e s. " Tutanekai" ... ... ... 1.000 1 2 ■■', I 5 48,6.">0 . Less estimated credits under section 41 of "The Public Revenues Act. 1891 " ... ... . 4,500 Total-Votk No. 18 ... . — 4*,13O MISCELLANEOUS SERVICES VOTE No. 14. 1 Additional sum required to meet increase of overtime payments for Sunday and holiday and night duty ... 2,000 2 Advertising and Printing • • ,u " :j Allowance to Mrs. E. Lindsay, equivalent to three months' salary of her late son, 1). B. Lindsay ••• ,i: i 1 Allowances to Tellers for Calculation of Savings-Bank Interest, to Clerks in Railway Travelling Post-offices, House Allowances, Forage, <fcc. ... . 5,500 ,-, Amount fraudulently withdrawn From Savings-bank Accounl !) (j Amount required for credit Savings-bank Account withdrawn by means of Forged receipt ... . Lβ 7 Aratapu Post-office: Defalcations by an officer since dismissed ••• •■■ •'" 8 Automatic franking-machine: Poundage on sales and refunds on spoiled impression■ ... •■ I'" , 9 Blackstone Hill Post-office: Burglary ... ... 7 10 Carriage of Private Bags ... ... ... 500 11 Cleaning and Scavenging ... ... ... 8,200 12 Exhibition postage-stamps : Proportion of sales (88J per cent.) payable to Exhibition Commissioners ... I 740 1 • > :5 I