8.—7.

Appropriations for Consolidated Fund Services

CLASS III.—POST AND TELEGRAPH DEPARTMENT— continued.

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[tern. 191 -15. MISCELLANEOUS SEEVICES— continued. VOTE No. 17— continued. Charges foe and incidental to — continued. Office Management Expenses— continued. Legal expenses. ... ... 100 Light, fuel, and water ... ... 12,500 Mail-bags, purchase of ... ... 1,750 New Zealand's share of the cost of International Postal and Telegraph Bureaux, Berne ... ... 150 Office expenses ... ... 8,750 Rent of premises . ... 2,600 Stationery, printing, and binding ... 33,000 Temporary officers, letter-carriers, and messengers ... ... ... 9,250 Exchange cadettes ... ... 4,500 Clerks and telegraphists ... ... 500 £ £ 5 6 7 8 Overtime Parcel-post expenses .Repairs, fittings,-new buildings, &c. Sundry Items — Compensation for articles lost or damaged during transmission by post 75 Compensation, legal action Partridge v. King (accident caused by line operations at Christchurch frightening horse) ... ... 491 Compensation to widow of late J, Comeskey, Postmaster, Upper Hutt 520 Destructor for stores ... - ... 450 Fraudulent withdrawal, Savings-bank Account, Wellington, 249301 ... 8 Fraudulent withdrawal, Savings-bank Account, Greymouth, 31191 ... 8 Fraudulent withdrawal, Savings-bank Account, Christchurch, 252702 ... 20 Fraudulent withdrawal from Savingsbank Account No. 208485, Auckland 16 Forged bank-notes tendered at Auckland 20 Madrid Postal Conference— Grant to Secretary, Post and Telegraph Department, to cover expenses of self and private secretary in Canada, United States, and Australia ... ... 428 Steamer fares, Auckland -Vancouver and San Francisco-Sydney-Wel-lington ... ... 200 Medical Expenses of Officers injured on Duty— C. H. Mathieson, Invercargill ... 30 A. T. Stevenson, Wanganui ... 32 Money-order Telegrams Paid on Forged Signatures — Dargaville ... ... 5 Palmerston North ... ... 2 Ellerslie ... ... 3 Pensions for officers, retired, whose allowance from the Superannuation Fund is under £52 per annum ... 150 Remittances stolen from Railway Trains— Turakina-Wanganui ... ... 32 Kakahi-Taumarunui ... ... 114 Whakamatau burglary ... ... 258 81,600 10,500 8,500 6,500 2,862