8.—7.

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Appropriations for Consolidated Fund Services.

POST AND TELEGRAPH DEPARTMENT—continued.

"™- 1927-28. VOTE No. 7—POST AND TELEGRAPH WORKING-1927-28. EXPENSES—continued. £ £ Subdivision No. VII.—Miscellaneous Services—contd. 7 Charges fob and incidental to —continued. Office Management Expenses—continued. Mail-bags, purchase and repair of ... ... 4,500 Motor-plates in connection with registration of motor-vehicles (recoverable) ... ... 12,000 New Zealand's share of the cost of International Postal and Telegraph Bureaux, Berne ... 400 Office expenses ... ... ... 6,000 Postal Eeceiving-boxes, supply of ... ... 250 Public Service Superannuation Fund contribution 32,405 Kent of buildings leased for post and telegraph offices, &c. . ... ... 8,250 Stamps, production of ... ... ... 13,500 Stationery, printing, and binding ... ... 50,000 Temporary exchange attendants ... ... 7,000 Temporary officers, postmen, messengers, and general division ... ... ... 18,000 197,249 Overtime and meal allowances ... ... 32,000 Parcel-post expenses ... ... ... 35,000 Sundry Charges— Advance by way of loan to the Radio Broadcasting Company of New Zealand, Limited, for erection of the Wellington Broadcasting Station (recoverable) ... ... ... 15,000 Cash deficiency : Loss of cash on destruction of post-office at Lepperton, by fire ... ... 6 Compensation for articles lost or damaged during transmission by post ... ... ... 300 Expenses in connection with Post and Telegraph Board of Appeal ... ... •... 350 Pensions Department: Grants to retired officers to bring superannuation allowances up to £52 per annum ... ... ... 250 Compensation— Casey, P. A., damage to property by fire caused by Departmental employees ... ... 29 Dependents of S. C. Kiddell, lineman, killed whilst on duty ... ... ... 507 Egginton, L. C. F., faultman, injured whilst on duty ... ... ... 79 Hathaway, J. W. L., message-boy, injured whilst on duty ... ... ... 58 Johnson, F. S., labourer, injured whilst on duty ... 72 Joplin, A. B., for damages to motor-car through a collision with Departmental vehicle ... 51 Parents of H. Deavar, message-boy, killed whilst on duty ... ... ... 174 Widow of T. R. A. Smith, postman, killed whilst on duty ... ... ... 1,010 Widow of E. J. Casey, labourer, killed whilst on duty ... ... ... 852 Compensation for insured parcels from Australia which were destroyed by fire in a railwaywagon at Waiouru . . ... ... 109 Expenses of Chief Telegraph Engineer attending Radio Conference ... ... ,.. 1,000