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Appropriations for Consolidated Fund Services

CLASS III.—POST AND TELEGRAPH DEPARTMENT— continued.

item. 19 0-11. CONVEYANCE OF MAILS BY SEA. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 VOTE No. 11. Charges for and incidental to — Auckland Steam Services Blind Bay Service Bluff-Stewart Island Services ... Chatham Islands Service Fiji Service Gratuities for the Conveyance of Letters and Printed Matter Great Barrier Service Havelock-Picton (Pelorus Sound) Service Hokitika-Southern Ports Service Invercargill or Bluff-Cromarty Landing and shipping Mails Mail subsidy, Suez Mail subsidy, Vancouver N elson-Croixel les New Zealand-Pacific Islands Service Pacific Services — Subsidy: Wellington - Tahiti - Rarotonga £3,500] Vancouver Service ... ... 2,800/ Resident Agent, San Francisco ... 75 > North American Overland and Atlantic ■ I Transit ... ... ... 1,600) Postal Union Trausit Charges ... San Francisco mail-service Suez Services — New Zealand-Australia ... .. £15,000^ Australian Overland Transit ... 2,100 I Australia-Europe ... ... 10,800^ European Transit ... ... 4,600 ) ( Wellington-Motueka Service ... ... ) ( Wellington-Pelorus Sound Service ... j WeBtport-Karamea-Little Wanganui Services £ 1,200 110 300 350 1,690 15 ,000 250 255 850 275 160 1,000 1,000 140 1,200 £ 7,975 400 3 ,666 32 ,500 410 20 21 650 Less estimated credits under section 42 of the Public Revenues Act, 1908 69 ,381 425 Total —Vote No. 11 ... 68 ,956 CONVEYANCE OF INLAND MAILS. 1 2 8 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 18 11 15 10 17 1 2 8 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 VOTE No. 12. Charges for and incidental to — Auckland Blenheim Christchureh Dunedin Gisborne Greymouth Hokitika Invercargill Napier Nelson New Plymouth Oamaru Thames Timaru Wanganui Wellington Westport 13,200 1,440 5,810 6,600 8 ,210 660 1,070 3,385 5,490 4,080 1,670 610 2 ,550 2,000 6,260 10,170 595 18 New Services, &c. (all districts) 68,800 1,500 70 ,300 18 Total—Vote No. 12 ...