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Appropriations for Consolidated Fund Services.

CLASS III.—POST AND TELEGRAPH DEPARTMENT— continued.

-tern. 1912-13. MISCELLANEOUS SERVICES— continued. £ £ 8 4 5 6 7 VOTE No. 15—continued. Charges foe and incidental to — continued. Audit fees Automatic franking-maehine : Refunds on spoiled impressions Carriage of Private Bag's Cash lost or stolen by fires, burglaries, &c.— Matiere-Ongarue mail-bag, containing remittance, stolen ... ... £146 Te Hana Post-office, burglary .. 40 A. R, Hillmer, theft ... ... 163 Money-order No. 3521, Invercargill on Wellington, paid on forged signature ■ ... 8 Cash registers for telegraph counters, Purchase of, £624 (on account) Cleaning and scavenging Compassionate allowance, Mrs. Parker Compensation for articles lost or damaged during transmission by post Compensation to A. F. Wimsett, to pay legal expenses of defence Expenses of Chief Electrician's .trip to Europe and America Fees to non-permanent telephonists Fire-extinguishers Forage allowances Fraudulent withdrawals from Post-office Savings-bank— Account 137270, Auckland ... ... £25 Account 195250, Christchurch ... 78 200 500 800 > 357 312 6,000 297 9 10 11 12 75 13 100 14 15 16 17 525 600 950 890 103 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 Grant to John Schofield, for injuries received whilst on duty Hire of Dickie stamp-vending machines Home savings-banks. Purchase of Legal expenses Light, fuel, and water ... ... ... Lodging allowances to cadets and cadettes Motor-lorries for carriage of mails New typewriters and repairs to typewriters New Zealand's share of the cost of International Postal and Telegraph Bureaux, Berne, for the year 1908 Night clerks and miscellaneous allowances Office expenses Old-age Pensions— Allowances to Postmasters ... ... £300 Fees for certificates of age ... ... 40 Interpreters' fees ... ... 25 Printing ... ... 300 Travelling allowances and expenses of officers, Magistrates, Registrars, Police, and pensioners 50 Overtime Plant for Wellington City mail-service Parcel-post expenses Postage stamps, Cost of new designs and dies Postal Inspectors' travelling-expenses Post-marking machines for various offices Printing, binding, &c. Purchase and hire of bicycles and motor-cycles, and allowances to officers using their own machines Railway travelling post-offices allowances Relieving-expenses Removal expenses Rent of premises throughout the Dominion Repairs, fittings, new buildings, Ac. 100 250 1,000 200 9,700 5 ,300 3,444 1,000 150 1,200 5,500 > 715 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 7,000 400 6,000 700 1,800 100 15 ,000 38 39 40 41 42 8,750 2 ,700 3 ,800 5,000 4 ,000 4,500