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Appropriations for Consolidated Fund Services.

LEGISLATIVE DEPARTMENTS—continued.

(a) Credits-in-aid : — Other Salaries. Charges. 1927-28. £ £ £ Subdivision I 75 .. 75 111 .. 350 350 VII .. 6,088 6,088 Totals .. 75 6,438 6,513

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Number | Item J VOTE No. 1.—LEGISLATIVE DEPARTMENTS— 1nol7 ou of Persons, p j continued. 19-27-28. 1.927-28. 1 Subdivision No. VII.—General Expenses—continued. £ £ Other Charges fob and incidental to —continued. Department of Internal Affairs— 30 Annotating Statutes ... ... ... 175 31 Supply of statistical publications to Members of the Legislature by the Census and Statistics Office ... ... ... 125 32 Fuel, light, power, and water ... ... 2,700 33 Furniture, brooms, brushware, soap, towels, linen, matches, tools, coal-buckets, and shovels (purchase and repairs) ... ... ... 800 34 Hire of motor-cars for Speakers of both Houses for official purposes ... ... ... 50 35 Laundry-work for Legislative Department ... 125 36 Meals to Messengers on late-sitting nights ... 100 37 Office equipment, &c., for Ministers' offices ... 300 38 Parliamentary photographic shield ... .... 25 39 Passages and expenses of witnesses attending Committee ... ... ... 10 40 Passages of— £ Members of both Houses ... ... 1,300 Members' wives ... ... 250 1,550 41 Postage and telegrams, including parliamentary papers 800 42 Printing of Statutes, Journals, Appendices, Bills, Order Papers, &c. (part recoverable) ... ... 9,000 { 43 Private Secretary to the Leader of the Opposition ... 100 1 44 Railway passes and concessions to members and exmembers of the Legislature, families, relations, &c., cost of ... ... ... 18,708 45 Railway passes to officers of the Legislature ... 270 ! 46 Railway sleeping-berths for Members of Parliament 350 47 Tell-tale clocks, installation of ... ... 134 48 Travelling allowances and expenses ... ... 25 49 Typewriters: Purchase and repairs ... ... 75 50 Uniforms for messengers ... ... ... 100 51 Upkeep of parliamentary grounds ... ... 200 52 Winding and repairing clocks, &c. ... ... 66 53 Window-cleaning, rubbish-removal, and chimneysweeping ... ... ... 540 54 Contingencies, including unforeseen expenditure incidental to the other items of this subdivision ... 25 39,823 Estimated credits-in-aid under Section 51 of the Public Revenues Act, 1926 (see end of vote) — Fuel, light, power, water, and general attendance supplied other Departments occupying Parlia- £ ment Buildings ... ... 1,088 Sale of Statutes, Journals, &c. ... 5,000 6,088 Total—Subdivision No. VII ... j 43,845 Gross Total ... ... ... ... j 89,710 Credits-in-aid (a) ... ... ... ... 6,513 NET TOTAL—VOTE No. 1 ... ... — | 83,197