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PUBLIC ACCOUNTS, 1907-1908.

STATEMENT in Detail of the NET EXPENDITURE under the DEPARTMENTAL VOTES for MISCELLANEOUS SERVICES of the CONSOLIDATED FUND (Ordinary Revenue Account) for the FINANCIAL YEAR ended 31st March, 1908.

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CLASS II.—DEPARTMENT OF MINISTER OF FINANCE :—1| Vote No. 8—Miscellaneous Services :— Item 1—Disoount and stamp duty on drafts remitted from the Dominion to replenish the New Zealand Publio Acoount in London Item 2—Exchange and commission— Commission paid Bank of New Zealand on remittances by telegraph in the Dominion Commission on payment of dividends Commission on money-orders Exohange on interest ooupons paid Exchange on drafts and cheques £ s. d. £ s. d. £ s. d. 10,025 6 10 1,077 2 6 54 18 4 10 6 0 350 19 10 288 17 11 Less amounts refunded by Departments for exchange .. 1,782 4 7 325 2 9 Item 3 —Extra clerioal assistance Item 4—Interest paid on debentures which fell due on a public holiday, principal being paid after maturity Item 5—Payment to officers of High Commissioner's Department for services rendered to the Stock and Loan Agents .. Item 6—Postage and telegrams Item 7 — Remuneration to Postal Department for paying Imperial pensions Item 8 —Salary of Registrar of Consols, 1st April, 1907, to 31st March, 1908 Item 9—Salary of Secretary, Civil Service Officers' Guarantee Board, 1st April, 1907, to 31st March, 1908 Item 10—Wages of assistant binders, 1st April, 1907, to 31st March, 1908, two at £170 each Item 11 —Contingencies,— Annual allowance to Treasury messenger Despatch bag Expenses in connection with repayment of bonds Interest on advances, Bank of New Zealand, London Labour, removing books damaged by fire at Parliamentary Buildings Maps and stationery Printing debenture bonds Subscriptions to newspapers and periodicals Stamp duty on cheques and documents Telephone subscriptions and installation Travelling-expenses of officers of the Department Typewriter requisites, &o. Sundries 1,457 1 10 400 5 0 7 13 5 647 10 0 1,328 6 9 225 0 0 50 0 0 25 0 0 340 3 4 20 0 0 3 10 0 8 10 3 83 15 0 8 18 9 10 17 0 2 4 6 12 15 6 15 14 0 19 10 0 6 17 7 9 0 6 7 8 0 209 1 1 Total net expenditure, Vote No. 8 £14,715 8 3 CLASS III.—POST AND TELEGRAPH DEPARTMENT:— Vote No. 14.—Miscellaneous Services :— Item 1—Additional sum required to meet increase of overtime payments for Sunday and holiday and night duty Item 2—Advertising and printing Item 3—Allowance to Mrs. E. Lindsay, equivalent to three months' salary of her late son D. E. Lindsay Item 4—Allowances to tellers for calculation of Savings-Bank interest, to clerks in railway travelling post-offices, house allowances, forage, &c .. Item 5—Amount fraudulently withdrawn from Savings-Bank account Item 6—Amount required for credit, Savings-Bank account, withdrawn by means of forged receipt Item 7—Aratapu Post-office: defalcations by an officer since dismissed Item 8—Automatio franking-machine : poundage on sales and refunds on spoiled impressions Item 9—Blackstone Hill Post-office burglary Item 10 —Carriage of private bags Item 11—Cleaning and scavenging Item 12—Exhibition postage-stamps: proportion of sales (33J per cent.) payable to Exhibition Commissioners Item 13—Expenses in connection with fitting-up post office at Exhibition Item 14 —Fittings for installation of card-ledger system at Post-Office Savings-bank, Christchurch Item 15 —Items not otherwise enumerated 2,000 0 0 279 17 9 62 10 0 3,955 18 0 9 0 0 15 10 0 50 0 0 28 0 7 6 4 0 528 0 3 3,738 15 11 739 15 3 29 7 10 Carried forward 11,442 19 7