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Appropriations for Consolidated Fund Services.

CLASS III.—POST AND TELEGRAPH DEPARTMENT—continued.

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[tem. 1916-16. MISCELLANEOUS SERVICES— continued. £ £ VOTE No. 17— continued. Charges for and incidental to — continued. £ Mechanical Appliances, Bicycles, &c.— Allowance to officers using their own bicycles, and to motor-cycle riders 2,500 Cash-registers for telegraph counters 600 Dickie stamp-vending machines (hire of) 300 Home savings-banks, purchase of ... 1,200 Purchase of motor-cycles, cars, and bicycles ... ... 5,000 Purchase of motor-oil ... ... 2,500 Repairs and hire ... ... 4,000 Typewriters, &c, and repairs to typewriters ... ... 1,500 17,600 4 Office Management Expenses — Advertising ... ... ... 400 Audit fees ..'. ... ... 300 Cleaning and scavenging ... ... 8,800 Legal expenses ... ... 150 Light, fuel, and water ... ... 12,900 Mail-bags, purchase of ... ... 3,000 New Zealand's share of the cost of International Postal and Telegraph Bureaux, Berne ... ... 200 Office expenses ... ... 7,000 Rent of premises .. ... 2,650 Stationery, printing, and binding ... 35,000 Temporary officers, letter-carriers, and messengers ... ... ... 12,000 Exchange cadettes ... ... 4,200 Clerks and telegraphists ... ... 1,500 ,100 5 6 7 Overtime ... ... ... 12,500 Parcel-post expenses ... ... 8,000 Repairs, fittings, new buildings, &c. ... 6,000 26,500 Sundry Items— Compensation for articles lost or damaged during transmission by post 75 Compensation to widow of late temporary lineman A. G. Wald ... 520 Cost of training camp at Waikanae for Post and Telegraph Territorials ... 240 . Destructor for stores ... ... 300 Fanning Island, cash taken by Germans 34 Fraudulent withdrawal from Savingsbank Account No. 266887, Auckland 25 Fraudulent withdrawal from Savingsbank Account No. 298101, Wellington 5 Gratuity to S. Leah, Postmaster, Eastbourne, on his retirement ... 15 Halcombe, remittance lost in transit ... 140 Patea, Savings - bank deposits unaccounted for ... ... 34 Pensions for officers retired, whose allowance from the Superannuation Fund is under £52 per annum ... 100 Whan gape burglary ... ... 26 1,514