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Appropriations for Consolidated Fund Services.

CLASS III.—POST AND TELEGRAPH DEPARTMENT— continued.

No. of Officers. item. 19 1-12. 1911-12. POSTAL AND TELEGRAPH SALARIES— continued. VOTE No. 11— continued. Contribution to Railway Department for combined Post-Telegraph-Railway Offices 1911-12. £ 20 £ 9,041 27 N T on-classified Officers, including country Postmasters and Telephonists 43,621 28 Payment to Eastern Extension Company for working Wakapuaka-Nelson telegraph-line 800 622 ,78! 4 531 Total —Vote No. 11 ... 1 2 3 4 5 0 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 1,4 CONVEYANCE OF MAILS BY SEA. VOTE No. 12. 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 Nelson-Croixelles New Zealand-Pacific Islands Service Pacific Services — Vancouver Service (underold arrangement) £2,500 j Vancouver (new service), from Aug., 1911 6 ,670 / Resident Agent, San Francisco ... 100 > North American Overland and Atlantic I Transit ... ... ... 1,600' Postal Union Transit Charges ... San Francisco mail-service Suez Services — New Zealand-Australia ... .. £15,000") Australian Overland Transit ... 2,100 / Australia-Europe ... ... 10 ,800 f European Transit ... ... 4,000 J f Wellington-Motueka Service ... ... ~) I Wellington—Pelorus Sound Service ... j Westport-Ivaramea-Little Wanganui Services 1 ,200 HO 300 850 1 ,090 15 ,500 250 205 850 137 100 140 1,200 10 ,870 15 10 17 200 10,830 31 ,900 IS 410 19 650 Less estimated credits under section 48 of the Public Revenues Act, 1910 70 ,0^2 378 Total —Vote No. 12 76,6i I 2 3 4 5 6 7 CONVEYANCE OF INLAND MAILS VOTE No. 13. CUAKOKS FOR AND INCIDENTAL TO Auckland Blenheim Cliristcliurch Dunedin Gisborne Grey mouth Hokaika 14 ,250 I ,475 5 ,560 6 ,715 3 ,400 710 I ,050