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Appropriations for Consolidated Fund Services.

POST AND TELEGRAPH DEPARTMENT—continued.

ofpeton, Item - 1926-27. VOTE No. 7—POST AND TELEGRAPH WORKING-1926-27. EXPENSES—continued. £ £ Subdivision No. VII.—Miscellaneous Services—oontd. 7 Charges fok and incidental to —continued. Office Management Expenses—continued. Mail-bags, purchase and repair of ... ... ' 3,000 Motor-plates in connection with registration of motor-vehicles (two years' supply), (recoverable) 18,000 New Zealand's share of the cost of International Postal and Telegraph Bureaux, Berne ... 300 Office expenses ... ... ... 6,000 Postal Receiving-boxes, supply of ... ... 100 Public Service Superannuation Fund contribution 30,408 Rent of buildings leased for post and telegraph offices, &c. . ... ... 9,000 Stamps, production of ... ... ... 8,750 Stationery, printing, and binding ... ... 50,000 Subsidies for wireless broadcasting ... ... 7,000 Temporary exchange attendants ... ... 8,500 Temporary officers, postmen, messengers, and general division ... ... ... 20,000 206,889 Overtime and meal allowances ... .. 45,000 Parcel-post expenses ... ... ... 37,000 Sundry ChargesCompensation for articles lost or damaged during transmission by post ... ... ... 300 Expenses in connection with Post and Telegraph Board of Appeal ... ... ... 350 Grants to officers on retirement equivalent to salary in lieu of leave, in terms of Post and Telegraph Regulations ... ... ... 625 Pensions Department: Grants to retired officers to bring superannuation allowances up to £52 per annum ... ... ... 250 Compensation : Whitelaw, J., civilian, injured by a bicycle which he was riding colliding with a Departmental motor-vehicle ... ... 175 Cash Deficiencies — Amount for Defence Department received by former Postmistress, Drury, and not traceable (Postmistress since deceased) ... ... 1 Amounts misappropriated by Postmaster, Otautau 163 Loss of cash on destruction of Lyell Post-office premises by fire ... ... ... 41 1,905 Travelling-expenses, &c.— Inspection of offices ... ... ... 4,000 Railway travelling post-offices allowances ... 3,300 Relieving-expenses ... ... ... 4,000 Removal expenses ... ... ... 7,500 Travelling expenses, allowances, and tram-fares ... 5,000 23,800