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Appropriations for Consolidated Fund Services.

CLASS VII.—JUSTICE DEPARTMENT— continued.

item. 1917-18. STAMP DEPARTMENT— continued. VOTE No. 37— continued. Salaries— continued. £ Clerical Division — continued. Glass VII— £ 2 at £200 ... ... 400 3 at £190 ... ... 570 2 at £180 ... ... 360 3 at £150 ... ... 450 1 at £140 ... ... 140 1 at £135 ... ... 135 Class VIII— 2 at £110 ... ... 220 1 at £95 ... ... 95 6 at £80 ... ... 480 2,055 795 General Division. 1 at £200 ... ... 200 2 at £140 ... ... 280 1 at £90 ... ... 90 lat£84 ... ... 84 1 at £18 (Messenger, £173, Is. per day additional) ... ... 18 672 Less proportion of increases to salaries provided for but not payable for full year ... 8,457 118 Less salaries of officers with Expeditionary Force 8,309 942 Other Charges for and Incidental to — Audit fees for inspection of accounts Auditing stamps Cleaning offices Compassionate allowance to Mrs. Aspinal, widow of late District Land Registrar, Napier ... Freight and cartage Gas, water, and fuel Legal expenses New postage and duty dies ... Office equipment Postage, telegrams, and rent of boxes ... Postage-stamp paper Printing and stationery Printing ink Purchase of amusement-tax tickets Refund of license fee overpaid in error by the New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company (Limited), Christchurch Refund of fine to Paul Cressey ... ... Refund of duty—James Harrison, deceased ... Refund of duty paid in excess by Messrs. Tate and Thompson on agreements Stamp-printing machinery ... Telephones Temporary Assistance— £ Extra clerks ... ... 350 Extra clerks (amusement-tax) ... 300 7,367 2 3 4 5 250 50 35 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 100 100 50 400 430 275 1,050 3,500 850 750, 300 17 18 L9 1,000 17 294 20 21 22 4 426 145 650 23 To cover defalcations of H. G. Leslie, Clerk, Invercargill 58