8.—7,

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Appropriations for Consolidated Fund Services.

CLASS III.—POST AND TELEGRAPH DEPARTMENT— continued.

ttem. 1919-20. POST AND TELEGRAPH WORKING-EXPENSES . — continued. £ VOTE No. 7—continued. MISCELLANEOUS SERVICES— continued. Charges for and incidental to — continued. Mechanical Appliances, Bicycles, &c.— Allowance to officers using their own £ bicycles, and to motor-cycle riders ... ... 8,500 Cash-registers for telegraph counters ... 550 Home savings-banks, purchase of ... 200 Purchase of motor-cycles, motor-cars, and bicycles ... ... 15,000 Purchase of motor-oil ... ... 10,000 Repairs and hire ... ... 9,500 Typewriters, &c., and repairs to typewriters ... ... 1,500 Stamp coiling and joining machines ... 200 Postmarking machines ... ... 200 40,650 Office Management ExpensesAdvertising ... .... ... 200 Audit fees ... ... , ... 300 Bank exchange on drafts ... ... 750 Cleaning and scavenging ... ... 11,500 Clerks and telegraphists .., ... 2,000 Exchange cadettes ... ... 33,000 Legal expenses ... ... 150 Light, fuel, and water ... ... 16,500 Mail-bags, purchase of ... ... 7,000 New Zealand's share of the cost of International Postal and Telegraph Bureaux, Berne ... ... 200 Office expenses ... ... 8,000 Rent of premises ... ... 6,200 Safes to inaugurate the safe-deposit system ... ... 300 Stationery, printing, and binding ... 58,000 Temporary officers, postmen, messengers, and general division , ... 60,000 204,200 Overtime ... ... ... 30,000 Parcel-post expenses ... ... 20,000 Repairs, fittings, new buildings, efec. ... 6,000 56,000 Sundry Charges— Amounts improperly withdrawn from Post Office Savings-bank— £ Wellington (325369) ... 14 Wellington (325249) ... 9 :■: . Wellington (342409) .... 64 Wellington (392700) ... 22 . Wellington (369344) ... 33 Napier (50850) ... 15 Christchurch (273809) ... 10 167 Compensation for articles lost or damaged during transmission by post 100 Compensation under Workers' Compensation Act to widow of the late Charles James Reed, head messenger, killed on duty ... .., 500