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Appropriations for Consolidated Fund Services.

CLASS III.—POST AND TELEGRAPH DEPARTMENT— continued.

'tem. 1919-20. POST AND TELEGRAPH WORKING-EXPENSES — continued. VOTE No. 7— continued. CARRIAGE OF MAILS BY RAILWAY. 4 Charges for and incidental to — Carriage of Mails by Railway— £ Special trains and trucks ... ... 2,500 Ordinary mails ... ... 78,500 81,000 MAINTENANCE OF TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE LINES. Charges for and incidental to — Maintenance of Telegraph and Telephone Lines — £ Extra labour ... ... 70,000 Material for repairs ... ... 60,000 Rural telephones (assistance to settlers) 1,000 Travelling-expenses of telegraph engineers and linemen ... ... 15,000 Cost of cable repairs ... ... 7,000 153,000 Less estimated credits under section 48 of the Public Revenues Act, 1910 5,000 148,000 MISCELLANEOUS SERVICES. Charges for and incidental to — Allowances— £ Forage ... ... 1,500 Locality allowances for cadets stationed away from home ... ... 180 Lodging to cadets and cadettes, and non-clerical officers ... ... 18,000 Miscellaneous allowances ... 10,000 Tellers and for calculation of Savingsbank interest ... ... 5,000 34,680 Cash Deficiencies— Cash deficiency, Mangere ... 3 Cash deficiency, Methven ... 4 Cash deficiency, Timaru ... 10 Cash deficiency, Wellington ... 40 Cash deficiency, Trentham ... 2 Burglaries — Rotorua ... ... 20 Milton ... ... 33 Remittances stolen in transit— Remittances stolen, Huntly ... 120 Remittances stolen, Papatoetoe ... 60 Remittance stolen, Awakeri to Whakatane ... ... 5 Ngakawau remittance stolen in transit 87 Deficiency in counter cash of a term porary officer ... ... 10 394 1,500 Fees : Carriage of private bags