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DEPARTMENTS OF INLAND REVENUE— continued.

Number of Persons. Item. 1923-24. 1923-24. VOTE No. 4.-STAMP DUTIES DEPARTMENT— continued. £ £ Subdivision No. I. — Stamp Duties Department — continued. 13 II 16 hi L7 18 19 Other Charges for and incidental to — continued. Printing and stationery Refund of stamp duty on property donated to disableel soldier by the late Hon. G. Jones Refund succession duty (estate of E. G. Styles) Relieving-allowances Rent Satnoan stamps (recoverable) Stamp-printing (part recoverable) — £ Wages and overhead expenses ... 4,700 Printing-ink ... ... 800 Repairs to machinery ... ... 100 Stamp paper ... ... 1,500 2,100 4 172 100 1,225 50 7,100 20 21 22 23 24 25 20 27 Telephone services (including installations, extensions, maintenance, rent, and calls) ... Temporary assistance Transfer and removal expenses Travelling expenses and allowances Typewriters : Purchase and repairs Valuation fees Valuator's services (T. B. Dwan) Contingencies, including unforeseen expenditure incidental to the other items of this subdivision 150 -500 350 150 200 350 75 50 Less estimated credits under Section 48 of Public Revenues Act, 1910— £ Cost of printing amusement-tax tickets 160 Law-costs and miscellaneous ... 50 Postage on parcels of stamped forms ... 450 Satnoan stamps ... ... 50 Stamp-printing ... ... 6,000 15,336 6,710 Total — Subdivision No. I 8,626 26,007 Subdivision No. II. — Land and Deeds Registry. 28 Salaries — Professional Division. I 2 1 at £765 (Registrar-General of Land and District Land Registrar, Wellington) Class A — 2 at £715 Class B— £ 2 at £590 .'.. ... 1,180 3 at £565 ... ... 1,695 2 at £515 ... ... 1,030 Class C— 1 at £460 Class U — 2 at £420 765 1,430 7 3,905 460 1 2 840 * Includes cost-of living increase to scale salaries or wages.