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Appropriations for Consolidated Fund Services

CLASS III.—POST AND TELEGRAPH DEPARTMENT— continued.

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.torn.! 191 5-16. CARRIAGE OF MAILS BY RAILWAY. VOTE No. 15. Charges for and incidental to — Carriage of Mails by Railway — £ Special trains ... ... 2,000 Ordinary mails ... ... 69,265 £ £ Total—Vote No. 15 MAINTENANCE OF TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE LINES. 71,265 71,265 VOTE No. 16. Charges for and incidental to — Maintenance of Telegraph and Telephone Lines— £ Extra labour ... ... 38,000 Material for repairs ... ... 45,000 Rural telephones (assistance to settlers) 1,600 Travelling-expenses of telegraph engineers and linemen ... ... 10,500 Upkeep of s.s. " Tutanekai" ... 5,500 95,400 100,600 Less estimated credits under section 48 of the Public Revenues Act, 1910 5,200 Total—Vote No. 16 MISCELLANEOUS SERVICES. VOTE No. 17. Charges for and incidental to — Allowances to following officers for acting in higher positions during the absence of the Secretary travelling to attend Madrid Postal Congress— F. V. Waters, Assistant Secretary ... £50 H. T. Markman ... ... 15 W. J. Gow ... ... 5 W. I. Dawson ... ... 5 Allowance to Chief Accountant, G.P.O., for acting as Controller, Money-order and Savings-bank, for nine months (H. A. Huggins) ... ... ... 75 50 Allowances— £ Forage ... ... 1,250 Lodging to cadets and cadettes, and non-clerical officers ... ... 12,500 Night clerks and miscellaneous ... 3,500 Special allowances to telegraph messengers :.. ... 100 Tellers and for calculation of Savingsbank interest ... ... 2,500 19,850 Cash Deficiencies— Ngungura Post-office fire ... ... 2 Puhikoko Post-office fire ... ... 3 Mangatina : Remittance lost in transit 6 Forged £10 note cashed at Auckland ... 10 Irregularities at Utiku ... ... 76 Irregularities at gtoke ... ... 79 Irregularities at Waverley ... 15 191 Fees — Carriage of private bags ... ... 1,050 1,050