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Appropriations for Consolidated Fund Services.

CLASS III.—POST AND TELEGRAPH DEPARTMENT— continued.

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Item. 1918-19. POST AND TELEGRAPH WORKING-EXPENSES — continued. VOTE No. 12— continued. CARRIAGE OF MAILS BY RAILWAY. £ . £ Charges for and incidental to — Carriage of Mails by Railway— £ Special trains and trucks ... ... 2,500 Ordinary mails ... ... 78,500 300 -— 81,000 81,000 MAINTENANCE OF TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE LINES. Charges for and incidental to — Maintenance of Telegraph and Telephone Lines — £ Extra labour ... ... 50,000 Material for repairs ... ... 66,000 Rural telephones (assistance to settlers) 1,400 Travelling-expenses of telegraph engineers and linemen ... ... 12,000 Cost of cable repairs ... ... 5,000 ,4' ,6' too 500 127,800 Less estimated credits under section 48 of the Public Revenues Act, 1910 134,400 6,600 MISCELLANEOUS SERVICES. V 6 Charges for and incidental to — Allowances— £ Forage ... ... 1,200 Locality allowances for cadets stationed away from home ... ... 180 Lodging to cadets and cadettes, and non-clerical officers ... ... 23,000 Night clerks and miscellaneous ... 10,000 Tellers and for calculation of Savingsbank interest ... ... 4,000 38,380 Cash Deficiencies— Cash deficiency, Auckland ... 124 Cash deficiency, Culverden : Defalcations of an ex-cadet ... ... 20 Cash deficiency, Oxford ... ... 23 Cash deficiency, Methven... ... 6 Forged money-order telegram, Christchurch 4 Lumsden Post-office fire ... ... 3 New Lynn burglary ... ... 1 Tisbury Post-office fire ... ... 9 War Loan (teller's losses) ... 114 War loan certificates lost at Island Bay 7 FeesCarriage of private bags ... Mechanical Appliances, Bicycles, &c.— Allowance to officers using their own bicycles, and to motor-cycle riders 3,000 Cash-registers for telegraph counters 550 Dickie stamp-vending machines (hire of) 320 Dickie stamp-vending machines (purchase of patent rights) ... ... 2,000 Home savings-banks, purchase of ... 1,200 311 2,000