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Appropriations for Consolidated Fund Services

CLASS II.—DEPARTMENTS OF FINANCE— continued.

Number if Persons. Item. 1920-21. DEPARTMENT OF INDUSTRIES AND COMMERCE— continued. 1920-21. II 12 13 14 L5 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 9 10 VOTE No. 8— continued. Other Charges for and incidental to — continued. Cost-of-living bonus : 1st January to 31st March, 1920 Government Firewood Depot: Working-expenses (including salaries of staff, cost-of-living bonus, and wages), (recoverable) Distribution of commodities : Expenses in connection with Exhibits at British Empire Exhibition, London: Preliminary expenses Extra clerical assistance Freight, cartage, and transport charges ... Fuel, light, power, and water Law-costs Office-cleaning Office furniture, fittings, and requisites (including printing and stationery) ... Overtime and meal allowances Postage, telegrams, and rent of boxes Price Investigation Tribunals— Fees to members of Travelling-expenses Witnesses' expenses Purchase of goods for purpose of investigations Promotion of sale of New Zealand manufactures in outside markets Purchase of wheat, to establish a credit for the (recoverable) Publications, preparation and distribution of Rent Reorganization of New Zealand Court, Imperial Institute, London Salaries of officers on loan from other departments Standardization of footwear Subsidies to — Flourmillers New Zealand industries ... Steamer services— New Zealand-Vancouver (half) New Zealand-San Francisco (half) Telephone services (including installation, extension, maintenance, rent, and calls) Temporary assistance (uniform cost-of-living increase, subject to revision as cost of living rises or falls) ... Transfer and removal expenses Travelling allowances and expenses Typewriters, purchase and repairs of Contingencies, including unforeseen expenditure incidental to the other items of the vote £ 50 18,500 300 600 2,000 20 100 1,000 250 750 50 1,700 2,650 100 23 24 25 26 510,000 200 700 27 28 3,000 600 100 29 80 500,000 2,000 31 32 33 10,000 12,500 34 300 35 36 37 38 555 100 2,500 300 100 1,080,285 Less amount of cost-of-living bonus already provided for and not required (cost-of-living bonus : Coal control, £150 ; Government Firewood Depot, £45) 1,091,684 195 Less estimated credits under section 48 of the Public Revenues Act, 1910 1,091,489 515,000 TOTAL—VOTE No. 8 ... 576,489 TO AL OF CLASS II £ 1,248,34'