8.-7.

Appropriations for Consolidated Fund Services.

CLASS III.—POST AND TELEGRAPH DEPARTMENT—continued.

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tem. M CONVEYANCE OF MAILS BY SEA. 1 108-9. ; 1 3 4 5 6 7 8 0 10 11 1.2 1.3 14 15 16 17 IS 19 VOTE No. 10. £ Charges for or incidental to — Auckland Steam Services ... ... ... 1 ,116 Blind Bay Service ... .. ... 99 Bluff and Stewart Island Services ... ... ... 300 Chatham Islands Service ... ... ... j 350 Cost of Transit from San Francisco to New York and from New York to Queenstown of Homeward Mails ... SO0 Fiji Service ... ... ... i 1 ,690 Gratuities for the Conveyance of Letters and Printed Matter ... ... ... 24,000 Gratuities to San Francisco Service ... ... 750 Great Barrier Service . ... ... .. | 250 Havelock and Picton (Pelorus Sound) Service ... 108 Hokitika and Southern Ports Service ... ... 600 Invercargill or Bluff and Cromarty • ... ... 275 Landing and shipping Mails ... ... ... 200 Mail-service between New Zealand and Australia ... 15 ,000 Miscellaneous Foreign Transit Charges ... ... 7,000 Nelsou-Croixelles ... ... ... 100 New Zealand and Pacific Islands Service ... ... 1 ,200 Salary, Resident Agent, San Francisco ... ... 75 Subsidy: Mail, Wellington-Tahiti-Rarotonga (on account, £7,000) ... ... 1,000 Vancouver Service ... ... ... ... 4,000 Suez Services ... ... ... 9,000 ( Wellington and Pelorus Sound Service ... ... ) „„„ ( Wellington-Motueka Service ... ... ... j Westport and Karamea and Little Wanganui Services ... 450 £ 20 21 22 23 Total—Vote No. 10 ... 68 ,963 t CONVEYANCE OF INLAND MAILS. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 VOTE No. 11. Charges eor or incidental to — Auckland ... ... ... 9,970 Thames ... ... •• 2,323 New Plymouth ... ... ... 1 ,809 Napier ... ... •• 4,411 Gisborne ... ... ... 2,241 Wanganui ... ... ■ •• 5,718 Wellington ... ... ... 11,207 Blenheim ... ... ... 1,467 Nelson ... ... ... 3,641 Westport ... ... ... 438 Greymouth ... ... ... 547 Hokitika ... ... ... 1,271 Christchurch ... ... ... 5,904 Timaru ... ... ... 1,853 Oamaru ... ... ... 615 Dunedin ... ... ... 5 ,985 Invercargill ... ... ... 3 ,351 „! 62 .751 9,970 2 ,323 1 ,809 4,411 2,241 5,718 11,207 1,467 3,641 438 547 1,271 5,904 1,853 615 5 ,985 3 ,351 62 ,751 Di,IUl New Services, &c. (all districts) ... ... 1 ,000 1,000 63 ,751 18 Total —Vote No. 11 ... ...