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1916. NEW ZEALAND.

GOVERNMENT ADVERTISEMENTS PUBLISHED IN NEWSPAPERS WITHIN THE DOMINION. RETURN OF ALL AMOUNTS PAID TO NEWSPAPERS, ETC., FOR GOVERNMENT ADVERTISEMENTS INSERTED THEREIN DURING THE FINANCIAL YEAR ENDED 31st MARCH, 1916.

Laid on the Table of the House of Re/rresentatives by Leave.

Amounts paid to Newspapers, etc., published within the Dominion of New Zealand, for Government Advertisements inserted therein, for the Financial Year ended the 31st March, 1916.

Name of Newspaper. Place of Publication. Amount. Name of Newspaper. Place of Publication. Amount. Akaroa Mail Alexandra Herald Asliburton Guardian Ashburton Mail Auckland Star Auckland Weekly News Bay of Islands Luminary Bay of Plenty Times Bluff Press Bruce Herald Budget and Taranaki Weekly Herald Buller Miner Canterbury Times Cheviot News Clutha Leader Colonist Coromandel County News County Standard Oromwoll Argus Daily Telegraph Daily Telegraph Dannevirke Evening News .. Dominion Dunstan Times East Coast Guardian Eketahuna Express Ellcsmere Guardian Eltham Argus Evening News Evening Post Evening Star Evening Star Examiner Farmers' Union Advocate Feilding Star Free Pross Geraldino Guardian Gisborne Times ('olden Bay Argus Golden Bay Times Grey River Argus Hawera and Normanby Star.. Hawke's Bay Herald Akaroa Alexandra South Ash burton Auckland Kawakawa Tauranga .. : Bluff .. .. ! Milton New Plymouth ,. Westport Christchurch Cheviot Balclutha Nelson Coromandel Auckland Cromwell Napier Waihi Dannevirkc Wellington Clyde .. .. I Opotiki .. I Eketahuna .. ! Southbridge .. j Eltham Christchurch .. i Wellington Dunedin Greymouth Woodvillo Wellington Feilding Balclutha Tomuka Gisborne Collingwood Takaka Greymouth Hawera Napier £ s. d. 35 16 6 21 4 3 93 8 9 73 5 0 561 0 8 128 15 0 31 19 '8 61 10 0 30 18 0 56 15 6 14 18 9 12 14 0 61 6 4 18 10 0 46 3 3 108 15 6 14 14 0 19 9 0 19 18 9 140 10 6 70 10 0 58 19 9 561 14 3 21 7 6 18 3 11 43 18 9 23 4 3 54 16 6 2 17 6 594 14 3 417 18 9 144 18 9 58 19 9 42 7 6 91 1 6 34 12 0 0 6 9 107 0 0 3 16 3 15 4 7 151 5 2 88 2 6 126 12 3 J! i Hawke's Bay Tribune Hokianga Times Hokitika Guardian Horowhenua Chronicle Huntervillo Express Huntly Press Hutt and Petone Chronicle .. Hutt Valley Independent Inangahua Herald Inangahua Times Inglewood Record Kaiapoi Record Kaikoura Star Kaipara Advertiser Katipo Kawhia Settler King Country Chronicle Kumara Timos Lake County Press Lake Wakatipu Mail Loco Record Lyttelton Times Manawatu Daily Times Manawatu Evening Standard Manawatu Herald Mangaweka Settler Manukau Gazette Manukau News Maoriland Worker Marlborough Express Marlborough Press Martinborough Star Mataura Ensign Mercantile Gazette of New Zealand Morrinsville Star Motuoka Star Murchison Standard Mount Ida Chronicle Nelson Evening Mail Now Zealand Dairyman New Zealand Farmer New Zealand Free Lance New Zealand Herald Hastings Kohukohu Hokitika Levin H unterville Huntly Petone Upper Hutt Reefton Inglewood Kaiapoi Kaikoura Helensvillc .. Wellington Kawhia Te Kuiti Kumara .. | Arrowtown .. I Queenstown .. ! Christchurch Palmerston North Foxton Mangaweka Onehunga Auckland Wellington .. ' Blenheim Picton Martinborough .. Gore . . Wellington £ s. d. 07 1 5 . 12 18 11 109 9 9 48 3 5 37 11 6 46 4 9 25 11 0 10 8 6 47 10 6 46 3 (i 28 2 6 19 7 4 22 15 3 29 19 0 20 10 0 15 18 0 51 (i 6 41 7 9 31 5 0 41 6 1 5 10 0 498 12 4 183 15 0 167 15 0 43 19 0 50 16 0 25 6 3 3 3 11 6 14 3 125 11 6 62 15 3 26 8 6 82 0 0 6 15 6 Morrinsville Motuoka Murchison .. ] Nasoby Nelson .. I Wellington .. | | Auckland I Wellington I Auckland .. | 54 12 9 21 15 9 6 7 11 21 4 3 98 6 2 39 12 6 120 6 3 171 14 0 540 15 0