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PUBLIC ACCOUNTS, 1907-1908.

STATEMENT in Detail of the EXPENDITURE for MISCELLANEOUS SERVICES—contd.

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Brought forward Jg s. a. £ s. d. £ s. d. 11,442 19 7 CLASS III.—POST AND TELEGRAPH DEPARTMENT— continued. Vote No. 14—Miscellaneous Services— continued. Item 16—Light, fuel, and water Item 17—Lodging-allowances to cadets Item 18 —Milton Post-office: contents of registered letters stolen Item 19—New Zealand's share of cost of International Telegraph Bureau, Berne, for the year 1906 Item 20 - Office expenses Item 21—Overtime Item 22—Parcels-post expenses Item 23—Payment, oable services Item 24—Postal Inspectors' travelling-expenses Item 25—Printing, binding, &o. .. .. .. ' Item 26 —Purchase and hire of bicycles, and allowances to letter-carriers, &c, using their own maohines Item 27—Remittance stolen from mail-bag whilst in transit by train between Auckland and Swanston Street railway-stations Item 28—Rent of Parcels-post Office, Auckland, from 15th September, 1907, to 15th March, 1908, at £350 per annum .. Item 29—Rent of premises for clearing-room, Wellington, from 31st July, 1907, to 29th February, 1908. at £550 per annum Item 30—Rent of premises for post-office, Lichfield Street, from 1st November, 1907, to 31st January, 1908, at £150 per annum Item 31—Rent of premises for post-office, Upper Symonds Street, from 30th September, 1907, to 1st March, 1908 Item 32—Rent of premises for tbe storage of material, &c, from 1st June, 1907, to 29th February, 1908, at £5 per week.. Item 33 —Rent of premises for Post-Office Savings-bank, Wellington, at £1,000 per annum Item 34—Repairs, fittings, new buiiaings, &c Item 35 —Special allowance to telegraph messengers auring their first year's service .. Item 36—Special allowance of 5s. per week to 102 telegraph message boys .. .. .. .. ... Item 37 —Stationery, &c. .. Item 38—Temporary offioers, letter-carriers, and messengers .. Item 39 —Travelling, removal, and relieving expenses Item 40—Uniform clothing Item 41—Waitati Post-office burglary 8,445 10 10 4,604 15 6 3 0 0 106 11 7 4,048 17 9 5,082 14 9 5,028 0 2 100 0 0 1,362 4 10 10,539 5 2 2,437 0 6 212 10 0 345 19 4 37 10 0 42 0 0 1.73 6 8 4,65212 10 1,575 0 0 1,326 0 0 10,453 13 5 8,268 12 2 10,754 18 5 2,906 4 1 40 15 11 Total net expenditure, Vote No. 14 £93,990 3 6 CLASS XI.—MINISTER FOR NATIVE AFFAIRS :— Vote No. 29 —Miscellaneous Services :— Item 1 —Advances to Native litigants in aid of payment of their costs in the Assets Company appeal cases Item 2—Compensation for aestruction of eel-weirs, Patea River Item 3 —Clearing Native lanas of noxious weeds Item 4—Expenses in connection with Commission to inquire into " Surplus Lands " in the North of Auckland — Allowance to Commissioner Travelling expenses 3,265 0 0 100 0 0 13 0 0 27 0 0 40 0 0 50 14 0 Item 5 —Final payment on account of Hunua " tenths " Item 6—Interest of £2,000, part purchase-money of Stewart Island Item 7 —Payment to Survey Department for preparation of plans, &o. Item 8—Postage and telegrams Item 9—Purchase of medical comforts for Natives during fever epidemic at Rawhiti .. .. .. Item 10—Purchase of land to provide for wants of former Native owners of Waiohau No. 1b Block, of which they were deprived by a fraudulent sale Item 11 —Salaries and expenses of Commissioners to report upon Urewera appeals— Allowances to Commissioners .. .. Travelling-expenses Hire of typewriters, &o. Rent of hall Sundries 104 0 0 354 5 0 564 18 9 6 19 0 378 6 8 159 0 11 42 7 6 1 15 0 0 15 9 582 5 10 34 13 9 Item 12—Seed-potatoes and vegetable seeds for Maoris Total net expenditure, Vote No. 29 £5,102 16 4