8.—7.

Aji)>)'opriations for Consolidated Fund Serrirrs

CLASS III.—POST AND TELEGRAPH DEPARTMENT— continued.

4—B. 7.

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item. 19( 07-8. MISCELLANEOUS SERVICES— continued. VOTE No. 14— continued. £ L8 Expenses in connection with fitting up poet-office at Exhibition ... ... 30 14 Fittings for installation of card-ledger system at Postoffice Savings-bank at Christchurch ... ... 50 15 Items not otherwise enumerated ... ... ... 1,000 16 Light, Fuel, and Water ... ... ... 8,0i)0 17 Lodging Allowances to Cadets .. ... ... 3,200 18 Milton Post-office: Contents of registered letters stolen ... 3 19 New Zealand's share of the cost, of International Telegraph Bureau, Berne, for the year 1906 ... ... 61 20 Office Expenses ... ... ... 5,500 21 Overtime - ... ... ... 3,300 22 Parcel-post Expenses ... .... ... 4,500 23 Payment, cable services ... ... .. 100 24 Postal Inspectors'Travelling-expenses ... ... 1,300 25 Printing, Binding, &c. ... ... ... 10,500 26 Purchase and Hire of Bicycles, and Allowances to Letter- I carriers, &c, using their own Machines .. 1,700 '17 Remittance stolen from mail-bag whilst in transit by train between Auckland and Swanson Street Railway-stations 30 28 Rent of Parcels Post-office, Auckland, from 18th July, 1907, at £350 per annum. ... ... ... 265 29 Rent of premises for Clearing-rqom, Wellington, from 15th July, 1907, at £550 per annum .. .., .. 390 30 Rent of premises for Post-office, Lichfield Street, from let November, 1907, at £150 per annum ... ... 63 31 Rent of premises for Post-office, Upper Symonds Street, at £52 per annum, from let October, 1907" ... ... 26 32 Rent of premises, for storage of material, &c, from 1st June, 1907, at £5 per week ... ... 216 33 Rent of Premises for Post-office Savings-bank, Wellington, at £1,000 per annum ... ... ... 1,000 34 Repairs, Fittings, New Buildings, Ac. ... ... 4,000 j 35 Special Allowance to Telegraph Messengers during their First Year's Service ... . ... 1,100 36 Special allowance of 5s. per week to 102 telegraph message boys ... ... ... 1,326 37 Stationery, &c. ... ... ... 22,000 38 Temporary Officers, Letter-carriers, and Messengers ... 5,500 39 Travelling. Removal, and Relieving Expenses ... 8,000 40 Uniform Clothing ... ... ... 2,500 41 Waitati Post-office: Burglary ... ... ... 41 £ 98,386 Less estimated credits under section 41 of " The Public Revenues Act, 1891" ... ... 6,400 Total—Vote No. 14 ... ... f 91.986 TOTAL OF CLASS III ... ... £708, £708,278 ,278