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Appropriations for Consolidated Fund Services,

CLASS II.—DEPARTMENTS OF FINANCE— continued.

Number if Persons. Item. 192 1-21. DEPARTMENT OF EXTERNAL AFFAIRS. 920-21. VOTE No. 7. Salaries— £ 1 Administrative Division. 1 at £800 (Secretary) 800 Clerical Division. Class IV— 1 at £375 (9 months) Class V— 1 at £330 (10 months) ... Class VII— 1 at £165 282 1 1 275 1 165 1 General Division. 120 1 at £120 5 Additional amount required to provide for uniform cost-of-living increase to scale salaries or wages, subject to revision as cost of living rises or fall ... 80 Other Charges for and incidental to — Advertising, books, photographs, newspapers, and other publications Compassionate allowance to Miss Ruth Lynn for physical disablement incurred whilst in service of Samoan Administration ... Expenses of upkeep, Samoan observatory Freight, cartage, and transport Island Trade Commission Office fittings and requisites, including printing and stationery Pay, allowances, and incidental expenses, Samoan Constabulary Postage and telegrams, and rent of boxes Telephone services, including installation, extensions, maintenance, rent and calls Travelling allowances and expenses Typewriters: Purchase and repairs Visit of Parliamentary Party to Pacific Islands— Charter of steamer Presents to natives Incidental expenses Contingencies, including unforeseen expenditure incidental to the other items of the vote 1,722 2 100 3 4 5 6 7 50 5,000 20 700 150 8 8,000 700 9 10 11 12 30 200 10 13 14 15 16 13,500 70 2,300 100 Less estimated credits under section 48 of the Public Revenues Act, 1910 ... ... 30,930 3,200 TOTAL—VOTE No. 7 27,730 29,452 DEPARTMENT OF INDUSTRIES AND COMMERCE. VOTE No. 8. Salaries — Professional Division. Glass B — 3 at £500 Glass D— £ 3 at £400 (8J months each) ... 850 1 at £400 (8 months) ... ... 267 1,500 1,117