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Appropriations for Consolidated Fund Services.

CLASS VII.—JUSTICE DEPARTMENT— continued.

Um. 1910 1910-11. i POLICE DEPARTMENT— continued. £ VOTE No. 37— continued. Other Charges for and incidental to — continued. 12 Police prosecutions and inquests, legal and medical advice, and interpreting ... ... ... 1 ,S00 13 Postage, telegrams, registration of code address, and rent of private boxes ... ... ... 2,500 14 Rations, fuel, \ight, and water ... ... ••• 3.000 15 Rent of stations, quarters, paddocks, allowances for sleeping accommodation, and rates on leasehold properties ... ... ... ! 3 ,000 10 Repairing, painting, and improving police premises .... 500 17 Rewards and expenses for the suppression of slygrog selling and the introduction of liquor into prohibited districts ... ... ■■• 1,000 18 Rewards to members of the Force for 'meritorious conduct ... ... ... 100 19 Saddlery and police vans ... ... ••• 200 20 Scavenging, chimney-sweeping, cleaning stations and windows, sanitary services and washing... .. 300 21 Stores and supplies, and expenses incidental thereto, newspapers and advertising, law reports, directories, and office equipment ... ... ••• 800 22 Telephone connections ... ... ... 1,000 23 Travelling-expenses of police and transport of prisoners, transfer expenses of police and their families, and repairs to vehicles damaged by prisoners ... 13 ,500 24 Contingencies, including unforeseen expenditure incidental to the other items of the vote ... ... 50 £ £ l ,soo 2 ,500 3 .000 3 ,000 500 1,000 100 200 300 800 1,000 22 23 13 ,500 24 50 43 ,941 Less estimated credits under section 42 of the Public Revenues Act, 1908 ... ... 1,500 43,911 1,500 42,441 Total—Vote No. 37 ... 42 ,441 179, 179,316 ,: 316 POLICE : MISCELLANEOUS SERVICES. VOTE No. 38. Charges for and incidental to — 1 Compassionate allowance to widow of late Sergeant J. P. H. McGuire ... ... 750 2 Compassionate allowance to Michael Quirke for loss of his son, who was shot while assisting the police at Palmerston North, as recommended by the Public Petitions Committee ... ... 200 3 Compassionate allowance to widow of late Sergeant Archibald McPhee .... ... 100 4 | Compensation to children (£500) and funeral expenses (£34) of late Constable H. H. Hancox, accidentally drowned while on duty ... ... 534 5 Cost of Police Commission (balance) ... ... 11 0 Funeral and other expenses in connection with death of Sergeant J. P. H. McGuire ... ... 60 7 Special allowance to ex-Constable Stewart for serious permanent injuries received in the service ... 49 1 o :; I 5 0 7 Total—Vote No. 38... ... 1,7"